Cyrus Farivar reports that the Baltic nation of Estonia has opened a new trade office California's Silicon Valley. Its goal is to drum up high-tech business for Estonian burgeoning high-tech industry.

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has strong ties to Kenya....and those ties are well-known in African immigrant communities in the U.S. Many African immigrants here are paying close attention to this presidential race. Reporter Marianne McCune visited one New York neighborhood to find out more.

Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Journalist Wycliffe Onyango Muga, a long-time resident of Kenya's main port city, Mombasa. He says the violence in Kenya has had an impact on trade.

Anchor Marco Werman speaks with reporter David McGuffin for the latest on the turmoil in Kenya following last month's disputed election. Protests continued into a second day today...and police are cracking down hard.

Entire program - Jan 17, 2008

The World's William Troop tells us about a musician from Brazil named Siba. He specializes in a kind of poetic street music that is popular in Brazil's northeastern corner. This is not samba, or bossa nova. But it's as much a part of Brazil as the more famous styles we Americans are familiar with.

Today's geo quiz answer is Verona, in northeastern Italy. Anchor Lisa Mullins tells us about a village near Verona that is rumored to be a possible honeymoon destination for French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

We're looking for a northern Italian city known as the setting for Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with Alex Kurzem. He was about 5 years old and living in Russia back in 1941, when invading Nazi soldiers killed his family. Despite being Jewish, he survived the war as a sort of mascot for a Nazi battalion. We find out how that happened, and why for decades Kurzem didn't tell anyone about his experiences during the war.

Anchor Lisa Mullins has an update on an effort to write singable lyrics for Spain's national anthem.