Foreign Dispatch: Refugee Camp Is Home For Many Syrians [VIDEO]

Friday, October 12th, 2012


By FOX News Radio’s Emily Wither at a Syrian refugee camp in Jordan

A few hours at Zaatari camp and you’re desperate to leave. It’s dusty, hot and there’s little privacy. Children run between the rows of tents in a haze of sand and harsh sun.

Their mothers hang clothes

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Foreign Dispatch: Fighting For The Right To Party In Jerusalem

Friday, October 5th, 2012

By FOX News Radio’s Emily Wither in Jerusalem
It’s Friday night and I’m going to a party in Jerusalem, but Friday night in Jerusalem is not Friday night in London. It’s Shabbat, the Jewish day of rest, and the roads are pretty deserted.  People are walking the streets with tin-foiled…

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Foreign Dispatch: Covering the Olympic Games

Friday, August 10th, 2012

By FOX News Radio’s Emily Wither in London at the Olympics:
Pearl Jam cuts through the clicking of keyboards and the murmur of various languages and a handful of us journalists in the Olympic media press center turn round in our chairs and grin at each other. We’re all snapped out…

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Foreign Dispatch: Building a Wall Through Battir [VIDEO]

Saturday, July 7th, 2012

by FOX News Radio’s Emily Wither in the West Bank

In the ancient village of Battir, farmers tend beans, squash and their famous eggplant, while the smell of fresh mint among the olive groves is overpowering.
They use irrigation systems that date back to the Roman Times; the spring water

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Foreign Dispatch: A Most Distracting Venue

Friday, June 22nd, 2012


By FOX News Radio Senior National Correspondent Rich Johnson at the G20 Summit in Los Cabos, Mexico

When you cover the President of the United States, you tend to get ‘in the weeds’ – so focused on the events, the intrigue and the ceremony you don’t see anything else. But when

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Foreign Dispatch: Learning The Language of Jesus in the Holy Land

Friday, June 8th, 2012


By FOX News Radio’s Emily Wither in Bethlehem:
You’d think that in Bethlehem, where the New Testament says Jesus was born, his language, Aramaic, would live on today… not so.
“It’s been forgotten here in the Holy Land,” principal of Mar Aphrem School Amal Behnam, explained to Fox News Radio.

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Foreign Dispatch: Egypt’s Historic Election

Friday, May 25th, 2012

By FOX News Radio’s Emily Wither in Cairo
A stone’s throw from Tahrir Square, the walls of the buildings pockmarked from the bloody revolution have been patched over with candidate posters.

“This wouldn’t have happened without the revolution,” a young man told me, referring to Egypt’s first free presidential elections.

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Foreign Dispatch: Shhh! You’re Going To Afghanistan With The President

Friday, May 4th, 2012


By FOX News Radio’s Rich Johnson, who traveled with President Obama as the Air Force One Pool Reporter on the President’s unannounced trip to Afghanistan:
“Be at the White House at 5 o’clock.”
Those were not the words I wanted to hear on a Sunday afternoon, even though I was “on call”

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Foreign Dispatch: An ‘Overshadowed’ Summit

Monday, April 16th, 2012

 
By FOX News Radio’s David Noto in Cartagena, Colombia
The streets of Cartagena were filled with security. Cops on every block, checking ID’s of passers by for the Summit of the Americas.

The summit itself was a lavish spectacle for the press, complete with photo ops, Cumbia singers and

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Foreign Dispatch: No Spring For Syria

Friday, April 6th, 2012


By FOX News Radio’s Emily Wither on the Turkey-Syria border
“We were killing children and old men. I was thinking I don’t want someone killing anyone from my family.”
Alla used to be a police officer in Idlib, but he defected a month ago. We met outside a military defectors



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