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Wednesday May 23, 2012
May 24 and May 27, 2012: from Florence - Uganda - The Seychelles - Iraq
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Tour participants in Florence eat gelato topped with aged balsamic vinegar, a uniquely Italian treat. (Photo: Luigi Fraboni) |
In Uganda you can inherit a wife, marry more than one, and beating them isn't much of a crime. And changing that is proving problematic.
Then, a young award-winning reporter on shoe leather, social media and his first time in a free-fire zone.
And, Florentine steak, well-aged parmeggiano, and an egg-rich gelato to die for. How to find the best food in Florence.
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Categories: Africa, Americas, Europe, Middle East, Past Episodes
Thursday May 10, 2012
May 10 & 13, 2012: from Damascus, Syria - Munich, Germany - Sao Paolo, Brazil - Alabama - Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Port-au-Prince, Haiti
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Alabama has America's toughest laws aimed at undocumented immigrants. It makes the lives of Hispanics so hard they are "self deporting", even if they are not illegal. The approach has also had an impact on Alabama citizens, many of whom have been drawn into the state's war on undocumented immigrants. (AP Photo/John Amis) |
The German locomotive hopes to pull Europe's flailing economies out of trouble. But there's a ghost in that machine.
In Brazil, David Rocha makes garbage instruments. Or rather, instruments from garbage. That's why they sound so good.
Illegal immigrant, deport thyself. How an experiment in immigration went wrong in Alabama.
Hotels aren't in the charity business, so why would the Red Cross want into the hotel business, in Haiti?
And from the Netherlands, a cafe where you don't pay for the food. We take repast in a restaurant for these recessionary times.
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Categories: 2010 Season, Americas, Europe, Middle East, Past Episodes
Wednesday May 2, 2012
May 3 & 6, 2012: from China - Toulouse, France - India - Port-au-Prince, Haiti - Amsterdam
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China's former Chongqing Municipality Communist Party Secretary Bo Xilai is the subject of one of two scandals threatening the Chinese Communist establishment. His wife has been implicated in the death of a British businessman. (Photo: Reuters) |
The F-word erupts into French presidential politics. Are foreigners the future of the Gallic identity or its undoing? The campaign revives a rift.
Then, hate camps versus haute couture. A new documentary examines why some girls in India are subjugated, while others are liberated.
In Haiti, the lacklustre government moves to appease restless former soldiers with the promise of a payday but there's a Fifth Column to worry about.
And, a sting on wheels. Bicycle theft in free-wheeling Amsterdam pushes our correspondent to extremes.
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Categories: Americas, Asia, Europe, Past Episodes
Wednesday April 18, 2012
April 19 & April 22, 2012 - from Mexico - Cuba - Yemen - Peru - Cairo, Egypt
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Selioua Muhammad, 25, sits inside her rooftop shelter in Sheik Othman, Yemen. Muhammad fled her home in June 2011 and has lived at this school since then. (Photo: Lindsay Mackenzie) |
The new entrepreneurial Cuba. Forget what you thought it was. The Fixer's gonna show you what it is.
Then, the school everyone goes to but no one attends. Children of the Bombardment learn hard lessons in Yemen.
Plus, the View from Peru, of an extraordinary Easter re-enactment.
And, in times of war, this much is true. Everybody lies. That said, we consider the source of reporting from Syria.
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Wednesday April 4, 2012
April 5 and April 8, 2012 - from Port-au-Prince, Haiti - Kiev, Ukraine - Prato, Italy - Ganta, Liberia - Tel Aviv, Israel
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Haiti's President Michel Martelly (c) leaving a news conference in March, held to dispel rumours that he holds dual US-Haitian nationality. (Photo REUTERS/Swoan Parker) |
Greeks and Turks make nice. Together! A cautious change in a troubled relationship.
And from the vaults, a story of Italian factories powered by Chinese labour. Business turns a profit, but both cultures take a loss.
Then, something few in Israel want to talk about. How the state uses, and abuses, its Arab informers.
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Categories: Africa, Americas, Europe, Middle East, Past Episodes
Thursday March 29, 2012
Mexican tabloids: Black & White -- and dead all over
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A typical front page for one of Mexico's biggest Nota Roja tabloids. The term means 'red press', referring to the bloodshed it features. Mexico's drug war has provided them with plenty to write about. (Photo/El Manana) |
But it took the Pope's visit to cause a temporary halt. One cartel hung out signs welcoming Benedict and pledging not to attack rival gangs while he's in the country.
With his departure, the killing that's claimed more than 47,000 lives has resumed. And with it, the debate over how best to treat it in the Mexican press -- that ranges from black-and-white, to red all over.
Canadian journalist Myles Estey has been watching it at work in one of the most dangerous cities in the world.
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- Fri., 15 – Falkland Islands...music of the long march
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