Mandela Media Stakeout Angers Locals

Residents of a small village of Qunu in South Africa are outraged by the discovery of surveillance cameras belonging to Western media outlets set up outside the home of Nelson Mandela.

Finding jobs for France’s older workers

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It’s likely that the French government’s plan to raise the minimum retirement age to 62 will become law. Labor unions are now saying it’s time to do something to help French people over 50 find work or keep their jobs. Correspondent Anita Elash reports from Paris.Download MP3

Global Political Cartoons: October 16 – 22, 2010

The French are hardly retiring. They’re taking to the streets to keep the retirement age at 60. And ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’, come out of the closet, go back in the closet…the extremely muddy issue of repealing the ban on gays in the military.

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Retirement in India

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While retirement homes for the elderly are commonplace in the US, they are a new, and growing, phenomenon in India. Reporter Elliot Hannon visits one of the newly constructed Indian retirement communities to see who’s moving in. Download MP3

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