Foreign Dispatch

This week, we hear about violence in Egypt, Brazilian tourism and heavy metal... in China.

This week we hear about a general who led a coup in Egypt being treated like a hero, police trying to pacify the shanty towns in Rio, a hero falling from grace in Italy, growing concern about illegal immigrants in Russia and in Ethiopia a woman makes her living in construction but dreams of owning a shop.

This week, we hear about the future of political Islam, trying to revive the Japanese ecomony, and dealing with crowds in Rio de Janeiro.

This week, a rebel Catholic priest in Brazil is a counterpoint to the Pope's visit, South Africans fear that racism will intensify when Nelson Mandela is gone, and an Istanbul delight of fish, grilled fresh from the sea.

This week, we hear about disquiet after the overthrow of Egypt's president, the mapping of a slum in Kenya, and coming to terms with the new Beijing.

This week we hear about a possible new trade agreement between the US and the EU, Syrian refugees going back into their homeland, Nelson Mandela's important diaries and call centers in Portugal.

This week we hear about the overthrow of Egypt's president, protests subsiding in Brazil, and the success of an internet news site in France.

This week, we hear about Jordan tightening controls on the internet, illegal immigration in Brazil, and how people remember the dead in China. 

This week we hear how Edward Snowden is a hero to the Chinese, how Shiites fight Sunnis and recall a thousand year old prophesy, a garment factory that does not exploit its workers, a new Pope's Twitter account and a day in the life of Pakistan.

This week, we hear about a change in US policy toward Syria, how the new Pope reportedly acknowledged a gay lobby in the Vatican, Russian plans to spend billions on the next Olympic venue, and violence in Honduras.

This week, we hear about journalists in a failed state in East Africa, how Shiite militants in Syria are risking a wider regional war, how collaborators are treated in Gaza, and why Spain's royal family is falling from grace.

This week we hear about why rocks are thrown in the West Bank and the consequences, a successful campaign against clear cutting in tropical forests, putting sheep to work in Paris, open wounds in Libya after the Arab Spring and the legacy of a party boss in China.

This week we hear about limiting voter choice in Iran, air pollution in China, and joining a pilgrimage in France.

This week, the story of a Buddhist monk in Burma who is suspected of encouraging attacks against Muslims, artists try to revitalize Cairo, and remembering a devastating earthquake in China's Sichuan province.

This week we hear about Syrian refugees fleeing to Jordan, living with bird flu in China and recovering art seized by the Nazis in France.