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Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, has decided not to seek re-election. Israeli Minister Yuli Edelstein discusses the prospects of peace in the Middle East and why Israel won't agree to a settlement freeze. ...

How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin is a new documentary film by Leslie Woodhead that explores the effect of the seminal rock group on the fall of the Soviet Union. Vote now for the musician that you think ...

Producer John Larson reports from Copenhagen, Denmark, on how changing lifestyles, taxing energy and subsidizing alternative technologies have reduced the country's dependency on oil and created thousands of new jobs. ...

This week, a Taliban sympathizer gunned down five British troops in Afghanistan. Daljit Dhaliwal speaks with Gideon Lichfield, deputy editor of The Economist online in New York, about British public sentiment and the reaction of Prime Minister Gordon Brown. ...

The Pakistani military has been aggressively going after militant groups -- after seemingly incessant terrorist attacks in many parts of the country. But we don't hear much about the toll on average Pakistanis and how they cope with the menace of militant attacks. ...

A U.S. Marine who is an embedded trainer with the Afghan National Army writes of the wait for resolution on the military strategy in Afghanistan.

Martin Savidge hosts Filipino peace negotiator and Catholic priest Eliseo Mercado and security analyst Zachary Abuza when Worldfocus Radio explores the forgotten terrorist front in the Philippines. TUNE IN on Thursday, November 5 at 7 p.m. EST.

Megan Thompson, a Worldfocus producer, recently returned from a trip around the world to report on climate change. Read her earlier posts from Grenada and Antigua.

After news yesterday of the deaths of five British soldiers in Afghanistan, public opinion in the U.K. seems to be shifting. Amid growing calls for a policy change, Prime Minister Gordon Brown is to deliver a major speech tomorrow. ...

Worldfocus producer Mohammad Al Kassim reports from the West Bank city of Hebron about its vanishing glassmaking industry, which dates back to the Phoenician era. He visits a master craftsman whose family business has endured for generations. ...

Today in Milan, Italy, there was a landmark court ruling regarding a program run by the Central Intelligence Agency known as "extraordinary rendition." Under that program, terror suspects were secretly detained and flown to foreign countries for interrogations. ...

Anti-government protesters have clashed with security forces, resulting in widespread chaos throughout the Iranian capital city. Geneive Abdo of The Century Foundation discusses the day's protests. http://worldfocus.org/blog/2009/11/04/protests-erupt-on-30th-anniversary-of-us-embassy-seizure/8179/

Today in Milan, Italy, there was a landmark court ruling regarding a program run by the Central Intelligence Agency known as extraordinary rendition. Under that program, terror suspects were secretly detained and flown to foreign countries for interrogations that some have described as torture. ...

In an exclusive interview, Bolivian President Evo Morales discusses an assassination plot that targeted him, why he chose to expel U.S. Ambassador Philip Goldberg and the future of U.S.-Bolivia relations. http://worldfocus.org/blog/2009/05/14/morales-us-must-restore-trust-with-bolivia/5382/