Dispatches
While he was in Iran recently, Michael Weissenstein covered the annual commemoration for the leader of the country's Islamic revolution, the aftereffects of a powerful cyclone and an American studies program that was called off.

CUZCO, Peru (AP) Yuri David Velencio Vario de Mendoza runs the Yanapay Restaurant, a place where all the workers - including himself - are paid around $250 a month and all the profits go to a school for impoverished children.

Covering news in Iraq is never simple. Driving a short distance to a news conference can take hours because of searches and checkpoints.

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