http://www.npr.org/templates/topics/topic.php?topicId=1004 Copyright 2011 NPR - For Personal Use Only NPR API RSS Generator 0.94 en Foreign Dispatch is a weekly podcast of the biggest news and best stories as covered by National Public Radio's Foreign correspondents from around the world. NPR,NPR,Foreign Dispatch,Washington,District of Columbia,Morning Edition,All Things Considered,Fresh Air NPR no http://media.npr.org/images/podcasts/thumbnail/icon_510093.jpg http://www.npr.org/templates/topics/topic.php?topicId=1004 Fri, 14 Jun 2013 19:57:53 -0400 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.

]]> Fri, 14 Jun 2013 19:57:53 -0400 http://www.npr.org/templates/topics/topic.php?topicId=1004 http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/510093/191766902/npr_191766902.mp3 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.

]]> gay,murder,italy,syria,pope,violence,vatican,honduras,estonia,NPR,NPR,Foreign Dispatch,Washington,District of Columbia,Morning Edition,All Things Considered,Fresh Air 31:42 no NPR http://www.npr.org/ 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.

]]> Fri, 07 Jun 2013 21:18:40 -0400 http://www.npr.org/templates/topics/topic.php?topicId=1004 http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/510093/189655054/npr_189655054.mp3 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.

]]> lebanon,israel,somalia,powers,united,syria,hezbollah,samantha,nations,gaza,NPR,NPR,Foreign Dispatch,Washington,District of Columbia,Morning Edition,All Things Considered,Fresh Air 27:51 no NPR http://www.npr.org/ 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.

]]> Fri, 31 May 2013 23:21:24 -0400 http://www.npr.org/templates/topics/topic.php?topicId=1004 http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/510093/187691463/npr_187691463.mp3 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.

]]> NPR,NPR,Foreign Dispatch,Washington,District of Columbia,Morning Edition,All Things Considered,Fresh Air 29:13 no NPR http://www.npr.org/ This week we hear about limiting voter choice in Iran, air pollution in China, and joining a pilgrimage in France.

]]> Sat, 25 May 2013 02:13:48 -0400 http://www.npr.org/templates/topics/topic.php?topicId=1004 http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/510093/186549672/npr_186549672.mp3 This week we hear about limiting voter choice in Iran, air pollution in China, and joining a pilgrimage in France.

]]> NPR,NPR,Foreign Dispatch,Washington,District of Columbia,Morning Edition,All Things Considered,Fresh Air 14:59 no NPR http://www.npr.org/ 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.

]]> Fri, 17 May 2013 18:03:24 -0400 http://www.npr.org/templates/topics/topic.php?topicId=1004 http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/510093/184871665/npr_184871665.mp3 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.

]]> china,natural,egypt,gas,myanmar,burma,NPR,NPR,Foreign Dispatch,Washington,District of Columbia,Morning Edition,All Things Considered,Fresh Air 24:53 no NPR http://www.npr.org/ 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.

]]> Fri, 10 May 2013 21:34:00 -0400 http://www.npr.org/templates/topics/topic.php?topicId=1004 http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/510093/182996400/npr_182996400.mp3 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.

]]> NPR,NPR,Foreign Dispatch,Washington,District of Columbia,Morning Edition,All Things Considered,Fresh Air 15:17 no NPR http://www.npr.org/ This week we hear about Sao Paolo through the eyes of its artists, brides in China now choosier in picking husbands, European horse trainers criticizing drug use in American horseracing, Egypt's own Jon Stewart, and Ford overtaking GM in China.

]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2013 22:13:48 -0400 http://www.npr.org/templates/topics/topic.php?topicId=1004 http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/510093/179349803/npr_179349803.mp3 This week we hear about Sao Paolo through the eyes of its artists, brides in China now choosier in picking husbands, European horse trainers criticizing drug use in American horseracing, Egypt's own Jon Stewart, and Ford overtaking GM in China.

]]> NPR,NPR,Foreign Dispatch,Washington,District of Columbia,Morning Edition,All Things Considered,Fresh Air 28:15 no NPR http://www.npr.org/ This week, North Korea closes a last link to the South, the Alawites of Syria, and making fun on the rich in Mexico.  

]]> Fri, 12 Apr 2013 20:13:31 -0400 http://www.npr.org/templates/topics/topic.php?topicId=1004 http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/510093/177088470/npr_177088470.mp3 This week, North Korea closes a last link to the South, the Alawites of Syria, and making fun on the rich in Mexico.  

]]> NPR,NPR,Foreign Dispatch,Washington,District of Columbia,Morning Edition,All Things Considered,Fresh Air 14:15 no NPR http://www.npr.org/ This week, we hear about Alawites turning against Syria's dictator, reminders of the prominent role women played in the early Christian church, and a comeback in Spain for the ancient ritual of hunting wild boar on horseback.

]]> Fri, 05 Apr 2013 20:33:23 -0400 http://www.npr.org/templates/topics/topic.php?topicId=1004 http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/510093/176393530/npr_176393530.mp3 This week, we hear about Alawites turning against Syria's dictator, reminders of the prominent role women played in the early Christian church, and a comeback in Spain for the ancient ritual of hunting wild boar on horseback.

]]> park,wild,egypt,stones,syria,rolling,hyde,boar,alawite,NPR,NPR,Foreign Dispatch,Washington,District of Columbia,Morning Edition,All Things Considered,Fresh Air 29:27 no NPR http://www.npr.org/ This week we hear about Islamists offering government services in Egypt, women-only carriages in New Delhi, and restoring the Palace of Versialles in France.

]]> Fri, 29 Mar 2013 20:53:22 -0400 http://www.npr.org/templates/topics/topic.php?topicId=1004 http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/510093/175741360/npr_175741360.mp3 This week we hear about Islamists offering government services in Egypt, women-only carriages in New Delhi, and restoring the Palace of Versialles in France.

]]> NPR,NPR,Foreign Dispatch,Washington,District of Columbia,Morning Edition,All Things Considered,Fresh Air 19:08 no NPR http://www.npr.org/ This week a former military dictator in Guatemala goes on trial accused of genocide, two sisters in Iraq with two very different destinies following the war, a musician from Mali explores the violence of religious extremists in a new album, smuggling timber in Afghanistan, and the Swiss reconsider their liberal gun laws.

]]> Sat, 23 Mar 2013 00:35:19 -0400 http://www.npr.org/templates/topics/topic.php?topicId=1004 http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/510093/175102080/npr_175102080.mp3 This week a former military dictator in Guatemala goes on trial accused of genocide, two sisters in Iraq with two very different destinies following the war, a musician from Mali explores the violence of religious extremists in a new album, smuggling timber in Afghanistan, and the Swiss reconsider their liberal gun laws.

]]> NPR,NPR,Foreign Dispatch,Washington,District of Columbia,Morning Edition,All Things Considered,Fresh Air 28:39 no NPR http://www.npr.org/ This week, we hear about political corruption in China, providing security for foreigners in Algeria, and the "feel good factor" in Mexico.

]]> Fri, 15 Mar 2013 18:43:18 -0400 http://www.npr.org/templates/topics/topic.php?topicId=1004 http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/510093/174453519/npr_174453519.mp3 This week, we hear about political corruption in China, providing security for foreigners in Algeria, and the "feel good factor" in Mexico.

]]> mexico,china,corruption,algeria,NPR,NPR,Foreign Dispatch,Washington,District of Columbia,Morning Edition,All Things Considered,Fresh Air 15:28 no NPR http://www.npr.org/ This week, Syrians take refuge from the civil war in an ancient burial site, Egyptian police are accused of collective punishment, traveling with John Kerry on his first overseas trip as Secretary of State, the young woman who was raped and murdered in India is remembered and honored, Chinese farmers rise up against their own village chief, and a new airline aims to make travel among African cities convenient at last.

]]> Fri, 08 Mar 2013 22:13:28 -0500 http://www.npr.org/templates/topics/topic.php?topicId=1004 http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/510093/173865080/npr_173865080.mp3 This week, Syrians take refuge from the civil war in an ancient burial site, Egyptian police are accused of collective punishment, traveling with John Kerry on his first overseas trip as Secretary of State, the young woman who was raped and murdered in India is remembered and honored, Chinese farmers rise up against their own village chief, and a new airline aims to make travel among African cities convenient at last.

]]> NPR,NPR,Foreign Dispatch,Washington,District of Columbia,Morning Edition,All Things Considered,Fresh Air 30:41 no NPR http://www.npr.org/ This week, we hear about the Islamists fighting in Syria's civil war, packing up in Afghanistan, and why people are drinking less beer in Germany.

]]> Fri, 01 Mar 2013 19:43:21 -0500 http://www.npr.org/templates/topics/topic.php?topicId=1004 http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/510093/173283543/npr_173283543.mp3 This week, we hear about the Islamists fighting in Syria's civil war, packing up in Afghanistan, and why people are drinking less beer in Germany.

]]> germany,beer,syria,afghanistan,NPR,NPR,Foreign Dispatch,Washington,District of Columbia,Morning Edition,All Things Considered,Fresh Air 12:53 no NPR http://www.npr.org/ This week we hear about unseen casualities of Mexico's drug war, sexual violence against Egyptian women, desperate Syrian refugees in Lebanon, building an amusement park near Osama bin Laden's final hide out, and graffiti artists hoping for calm elections in Kenya.

]]> Fri, 22 Feb 2013 23:23:35 -0500 http://www.npr.org/templates/topics/topic.php?topicId=1004 http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/510093/172743683/npr_172743683.mp3 This week we hear about unseen casualities of Mexico's drug war, sexual violence against Egyptian women, desperate Syrian refugees in Lebanon, building an amusement park near Osama bin Laden's final hide out, and graffiti artists hoping for calm elections in Kenya.

]]> NPR,NPR,Foreign Dispatch,Washington,District of Columbia,Morning Edition,All Things Considered,Fresh Air 23:15 no NPR http://www.npr.org/ This week, we hear about a young woman in Aleppo, Syria whose life has been turned upside down by the civil war there, how Turkish wrestlers are reacting to the sport's elimination from the Olympics, and the story of Israeli women who are fighting for the right to worship at Judaism's holiest site.

]]> Fri, 15 Feb 2013 22:02:19 -0500 http://www.npr.org/templates/topics/topic.php?topicId=1004 http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/510093/172154393/npr_172154393.mp3 This week, we hear about a young woman in Aleppo, Syria whose life has been turned upside down by the civil war there, how Turkish wrestlers are reacting to the sport's elimination from the Olympics, and the story of Israeli women who are fighting for the right to worship at Judaism's holiest site.

]]> israel,wrestling,turkey,syria,olympics,aleppo,NPR,NPR,Foreign Dispatch,Washington,District of Columbia,Morning Edition,All Things Considered,Fresh Air 16:49 no NPR http://www.npr.org/ This week we hear about political violence on the rise in Greece, Iranian dissidents trying to elude the cyber police, the long lost bones of King Richard the Third, women in rural India facing the pervasive threat of rape, and an American woman strikes a blow against domestic violence in China.

]]> Fri, 08 Feb 2013 20:08:11 -0500 http://www.npr.org/templates/topics/topic.php?topicId=1004 http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/510093/171529786/npr_171529786.mp3 This week we hear about political violence on the rise in Greece, Iranian dissidents trying to elude the cyber police, the long lost bones of King Richard the Third, women in rural India facing the pervasive threat of rape, and an American woman strikes a blow against domestic violence in China.

]]> the,rape,iran,police,china,richard,greece,lee,india,violence,third,kim,cyber,domestic,NPR,NPR,Foreign Dispatch,Washington,District of Columbia,Morning Edition,All Things Considered,Fresh Air 28:48 no NPR http://www.npr.org/ This week we hear what's next for Mali, how some Chinese people spy on each other, and about the rejection of ultra-conservative Islam in Egypt.

]]> Mon, 04 Feb 2013 16:03:21 -0500 http://www.npr.org/templates/topics/topic.php?topicId=1004 http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/510093/171090536/npr_171090536.mp3 This week we hear what's next for Mali, how some Chinese people spy on each other, and about the rejection of ultra-conservative Islam in Egypt.

]]> china,egypt,mali,NPR,NPR,Foreign Dispatch,Washington,District of Columbia,Morning Edition,All Things Considered,Fresh Air 17:14 no NPR http://www.npr.org/ This week we hear what's next for Mali, how some Chinese people spy on each other, and about the rejection of ultra-conservative Islam in Egypt.

]]> Fri, 01 Feb 2013 21:33:18 -0500 http://www.npr.org/templates/topics/topic.php?topicId=1004 http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/510093/170902874/npr_170902874.mp3 This week we hear what's next for Mali, how some Chinese people spy on each other, and about the rejection of ultra-conservative Islam in Egypt.

]]> NPR,NPR,Foreign Dispatch,Washington,District of Columbia,Morning Edition,All Things Considered,Fresh Air 17:14 no NPR http://www.npr.org/ This week we hear about an early success for the French in Mali, searching for Spitfires in Myanmar, and the Friends cafe in Beijing. 

]]> Fri, 25 Jan 2013 22:14:44 -0500 http://www.npr.org/templates/topics/topic.php?topicId=1004 http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/510093/170317714/npr_170317714.mp3 This week we hear about an early success for the French in Mali, searching for Spitfires in Myanmar, and the Friends cafe in Beijing. 

]]> friends,france,myanmar,beijing,mali,spitfire,NPR,NPR,Foreign Dispatch,Washington,District of Columbia,Morning Edition,All Things Considered,Fresh Air 15:54 no NPR http://www.npr.org/