Rupert Allman

Takeaway Executive Producer

Rupert Allman appears in the following:

Fawaz Gerges on the Latest from Syria

Friday, June 01, 2012

Another massacre in Syria and more video showing horribly brutalized bodies. In the latest allegation, men were taken from a work bus and killed, execution style. The latest allegatio...

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The Secret World of Espionage Comes to New York

Friday, May 25, 2012

John Hockenberry visits the new spying exhibit at the Discovery Center in Times Square. He peruses hundreds of artifacts from the CIA, FBI, and National Reconnaissance Office with Tim...

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Spain Crosses its Fingers During Eurovision Contest

Friday, May 25, 2012

It's the most wonderful time of the year in Europe. It's a time that Europe collectively gathers around the TV to watch and vote in a competition called "The Eurovision Song Contest"....

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100 Days to the Paralympic Games

Monday, May 21, 2012

Organizers are starting to talk about something that's never happened before - a sellout for the Paralympic Games. With 100 days to go before the start of the Paralympics in London, t...

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The Minority is Now the Majority: Analyzing the US Census Data

Thursday, May 17, 2012

The headline will surprise very few, but it is now official: More than half the babies born in the U.S. last year were not white but either Latino, Black, Asian or from some other minority. The new report from the U.S. Census Bureau tell us more about how far and how fast our country is changing.

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TIME's Controversial Cover

Friday, May 11, 2012

Everyone is talking about this week's Time magazine, the cover of which features a young mom breastfeeding her son. Only her son isn't a baby – he's much, much older. Mary Elizabeth W...

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Update from Syria with The World's Laura Lynch

Wednesday, May 09, 2012

A tense violent backdrop to some very difficult to interpret elections in Syria over the past few days and now everything is once again on the verge of unraveling. Free Syrian Army ch...

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Hunting for Joseph Kony

Monday, April 30, 2012

In March, Joseph Kony jumped into the national spotlight when a YouTube video about his Christian militia, the Lord’s Resistance Army, went viral. Six months earlier, however, America...

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Charles Taylor's Legacy in Sierra Leone

Thursday, April 26, 2012

The former President of Liberia, Charles Taylor, has been found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity during the civil war in Sierra Leone in the 1990s. The 11 charges include murder, rape, mutilations and the use of child soldiers. Alan Little of our partner the BBC reported on the conflict. He's returned to Sierra Leone to look at Charles Taylor's legacy and has this report.

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Hollande Wins First Round of French Presidential Election, Runoff May 6

Monday, April 23, 2012

Francois Hollande was the winner of the first round in the French Presidential election, and will now face the current President Nicolas Sarkozy in a runoff election. Sarkozy came in second in the poll. The presidential runoff election is May 6. Joining us from the French capital is long time correspondent for our partner the BBC in Paris Hugh Scholfield.

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Remembering the Holocaust: the Thersienstadt Ghetto

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Today is one of the most somber points in the Israeli calendar, when sirens call the nation for two minutes silence to mark those killed in the Holocaust. The day is a moment to reflect on the continuing research into the Nazi plan to exterminate the Jewish population of Europe. This year has seen the opening of an exhibition dedicated to the young men who ran a football league in the ghetto of Thersienstadt in the Czech Republic. This was a ghetto the Germans used to try to deceive the world about the Holocaust, where they fooled visiting Red Cross inspectors and even shot a propaganda film. Kevin Connolly is from our partner the BBC.

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Report from Rescue Site of Kashmir Avalanche

Thursday, April 19, 2012

The search continues for 140 people – 129 of them Pakistani soldiers – buried by an avalanche near the Siachen Glacier 12 days ago. Orla Guerin from our partner the BBC reports from the rescue site.

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Hacking Scandal Arrives in U.S.

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Over 4,000 people have been identified as possible victims of phone hacking since the News of the World scandal first made headlines. The parent company News International has paid ou...

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Breivik Trial Day 2: "I would have done it again"

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

On the second day of his trial, the man accused of killing 77 people in bomb and gun attacks in Norway last July has defended his actions in a statement to a court in Oslo. BBC reporter Lars Bevanger joins us from outside the courthouse that is holding the trial of Anders Behring Breivik.

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British Politician Offers $10 Million Bounty for the Capture of Obama and Bush

Monday, April 16, 2012

Washington recently announced it was offering a reward of $10 million for information that would lead to the arrest of Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, founder of the Lashkar-e-Taiba group who are widely suspected of organising the 2008 Mumbai attacks in which 166 people died. That has drawn a counter offer: a bounty of $10 million for the capture of President Obama and his predecessor, George Bush. What's remarkable is that offer is being made by a senior British politician called Lord Ahmed. We're joined by Rob Watson from our partner the BBC.

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Stand Your Ground Laws Lead to Rise in Justifiable Homicides, Report Says

Friday, April 06, 2012

Weak gun control laws are to blame for the rise in justifiable homicides, an investigation by The Guardian newspaper concludes. A higher rate of this type of killing occurs when that ...

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Women Will Destroy the World. Really?

Wednesday, April 04, 2012

A new report by Germany's central bank says women at the top of the banking industry spur their male colleagues to take bigger risks. Based on an analysis of German bank executive tea...

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Voices from Myanmar after the Election of Aung San Suu Kyi

Monday, April 02, 2012

After years under house arrest, on Sunday pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi was elected to serve in the Myanmar parliament. Rachel Harvey from our partner the BBC reports from Mya...

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British Government Plans to Monitor Web Use of Citizens

Monday, April 02, 2012

The British government is moving forward with a proposal to allow its intelligence agency, GCHQ, to monitor calls, emails, texts and online searches of everyone inside the U.K.'s bord...

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Details About Osama bin Laden's Nine Years on the Run

Friday, March 30, 2012

New details have come to light about the nine years Osama bin Laden spent on the run in Pakistan after 9/11. We now know he moved among five safe houses and fathered four children, at...

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