Dispatches
with Rick MacInnes-Rae
Thursday February 2, 2012
February 2 & 5: from Sri Lanka - Palau - Ethiopia - Bahrain - Pakistan - Colombia
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Tombs in Puerto Berrio, Colombia hold the remains of unidentified people adopted by local townspeople. Photo/Nadja Drost |
The stateless of the South Pacific. Why six inmates freed from Guantanamo are now marooned halfway round the world.
Jazz night in Addis Ababa. Ethiopia is comfortable with some western influences but dissent isn't one of them.
How Sri Lanka's headlong rush to development is pitting resorts against its people.
Making a deal with the nameless dead. Why Colombians adopt the victims of violence floating down its largest river.
And, the Pakistani journalist who revealed corruption in his craft only to become a victim of his own success.
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Thursday January 26, 2012
Jan 26 & 29: from Port au Prince, Haiti - Kingston, Jamaica - Butare, Rwanda - Nicaragua - Bas Me Limbe, Haiti
From our correspondents around the world...
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Mobile phones became lifelines for people in the weeks following the 2010 Haiti earthquake, and they would charge them at charging stations like this one in Port-au-Prince. The Red Cross' TERA text-messaging service,developed in the aftermath of the quake. (Photo/ REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz) |
From the Haitian earthquake rises new thinking about technology that will save lives around the world.
A political paradox in Jamaica. The country's about to celebrate independence though most voters say it's failed them.
Something is killing the cane-cutters of central America: a mysterious new kind of kidney disease found nowhere else.
And from the archives; spying on free speech. How Rwanda tries to suppress the legacy of genocide.
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Wednesday January 18, 2012
Jan 19 & 22: from Damascus - Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo - Kandahar - Ghana - Lombardi, Italy - Nigeria
From our correspondents around the world....
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Bashar and father Hafez stare down on the entrance to the prison in Damascus where protesters have been jailed to scare them into silence. Photo/Margaret Evans |
Hear why the struggle for Syria has become "an equality of weakness" in our correspondent's dispatch from Damascus.
Putting the bore in Borneo. Tidal bore that is. A phenomenal view of a natural phenomenon.
Why was Canada in Kandahar? A new study says we didn't ask enough tough questions before embarking on an "ill-starred" mission.
If Ghana is democracy's beacon in Africa, it sometimes shines with faint light according to the filmmaker who's documented its presidential election.
And from the vaults: the fitful search to learn why Italian soccer players are coming down with Lou Gherig's Disease?
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Thursday January 12, 2012
Jan 12 & 14, 2012: from East Jerusalem - Dublin - India - Democratic Republic of Congo - Beijing
From our correspondents around the world!
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In Gaza, Palestinians have no problem keeping past heroes alive. Not so for their bretheren in East Jerusalem, where Israel is in control and is trying to re-write Palestinian text books. Photo/GettyImages |
Israel rewrites the history books. No Arafat. No Intifada. Palestinians say, no more.
How jazz found a foothold in India. A story of rhythm and racism.
We revisit Congo, where former rebels are getting away with murder.
Did an Irishman save Hitler's life? Disturbing documents surface in Dublin.
And a view from Beijing, where a foot in cold water is the poor man's recreation.
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