Foreign Dispatch

This week we hear about Chinese reporters striking over government censorship, Communist Cuba allowing citizens to travel without exit permits, France wanting to cut its workers' benefits to become more competitive, pay-by-the-minute cafes in Russia and preserving history in Eruope with olive oil.

This week, we hear about continuing tension in eastern Congo, shifts in Mexico's war on drugs, easing the blockade of the Gaza Strip, a crack epidemic in Brazil, a soap opera in Turkey, and some fishy music in Pakistan.

This week we hear about calculating the toll of the Syrian conflict, a rising political star in Indonesia, Italy's environmental battle, successful computing in Kenya, and trading insults over taxes in France.

This week we hear about history being made in North Korea, health care workers under fire in Pakistan, India responds to a disturbing crime, free birth control for teen girls in France and women entrepreneurs in Afghanistan.

This week, we hear about rebuilding a Syrian village, North Korea's rocket launch, Spain's stolen babies, China's courts, and U.S. hockey stars shining in Russia.

This week we hear about displaced Syrians facing a cold winter, saving olives in the West Bank, breaking the cycle of prostitution in Kenya, navigating around artifacts in Turkey and a real cat fight in Italy.

This week we hear about struggling young people in Gaza, revisiting Pakistan's Swat Valley, survival TV in Syria, China's answer to Twitter plus its famous First Lady, and cooking up a comeback in Mogadishu.

This week, we hear about Israel's "Iron Dome," the dismissal of a blasphemy case in Pakistan, banning videotaping of police in Spain, wild boars in Berlin, and drunken passengers in the skies above Russia.

This week, we hear about China's new leaders, social unrest in Jordan, and the rise of the far right in Greece.

This week, we hear about China selecting their new leader for the next ten years, Kenyans reacting to President Obama's re-election, a stalemate in the battle for Syria's largest city, Africa's first high speed train and radical islamists threaten Mali.

This week, we hear about China preparing for a leadership change, why China's economy needs a radical makeover, and vigilante justice in Cairo.

This week we hear about a poor girl struggling to get educated in Pakistan, one part of Spain that seems to avoid the deep debt of the rest of the country, a TV hit in Sengal all about sheep, Cambodia trying to recover a thousand year old statue, and culture sprining up from Syria.

This week, we hear about a U.S. presidential debate viewed from China, a close-up of a death in Syria, and a little-known vintage from France.

This week, we hear about South Africa's political firebrand, the forest people of Uganda and a movie premiere in Afghanistan.

This week, we hear about Syrian-American doctors joining rebels in Syria's civil war, Pakistan's sliding economy, Cambodian peasants losing their farms, Argentina's transgender citizens, and a plan to build Spain's own Las Vegas.