July 26, 2012  |   Korean Central News Agency released this photo on July 9 showing North Korean leader Kim Jong Un accompanied by a young unidentified woman at a band performance in Pyongyang. Credit: KNS/AFP/Getty Images. Spotted: Smartly dressed woman on the arm...

July 26, 2012  |   Kelly McEvers, NPR's foreign correspondent in Beirut, Lebanon, spent a week in rebel-held areas along the Turkish-Syrian border. She filed a week's worth of reports for NPR, and on Thursday she's coming to the NewsHour to talk about what...

July 24, 2012  |   Saturday's fatal shooting by police of an unarmed man in Anaheim, Calif., prompted days of protests against a police department that some residents say is biased against Hispanics. Video of the police reaction to the protests -- posted on...

July 19, 2012  |   Where Is Syrian President Bashar al-Assad? The whereabouts of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad are unknown. He hasn't made a public or televised appearance since rebels attacked a government building in the capital Damascus on Wednesday, killing three top officials including...

July 18, 2012  |   Syrian police guard the road near the scene of the suicide bomb attack that targeted the National Security headquarters in Rawda, a high security district in the heart of the capital, Damascus, on July 18. Photo by STR/AFP/Getty Images....

July 18, 2012  |   Making drug consumption legal in the United States would lessen its use and take the illegal stream of money away from the criminal cartels now thriving on the trade in Mexico, former Mexican President Vicente Fox...

July 17, 2012  |   More than half of the continental United States was in moderate to extreme drought in June -- including corn- and soybean-producing states -- damaging crops and impacting prices at the grocery store. Some say if the hot, dry weather...

July 16, 2012  |   Egyptian demonstrators protest the visit of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton outside the presidential palace in Cairo on July 14. Photo by Khaled Desouki/AFP/Getty Images. During Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's visit to Egypt over the weekend to reaffirm...

July 13, 2012  |   A malnourished child receives treatment at a clinic in a camp in Jamam, South Sudan on June 20. Photo by Giulio Petrocco/AFP/Getty Images. Sudanese taking refuge in a tent camp in Jamam, South Sudan, may have escaped the fighting...

July 9, 2012  |   South Sudanese celebrate their first independence day in the country's capital Juba. Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images. In the year since South Sudan became an independent country, it has seen violent flare-ups between ethnic groups and a financial squeeze...

July 5, 2012  |   A worker in Benghazi erects a campaign poster for General National Congress elections. Photo by Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images. On Saturday, Libyans will vote for the first time since the ouster of dictator Moammar Gadhafi -- the first free parliamentary...

July 1, 2012  |   The Institutional Revolutionary Party of Enrique Pena Nieto led Mexico for 71 years before the conservative National Action Party took over 12 years ago. Updated 5 a.m. ET July 2 |...

June 29, 2012  |   For more than two decades, Mexican photographer Julian Cardona has documented the lives of Ciudad Juarez residents, both as their city thrived, and lately, as it's suffered from poverty and violence. In the early 1990s, after Mexico, Canada and...

June 27, 2012  |   Margaret Warner in a mass grave site in Juarez, Mexico. Photo by Morgan Till/NewsHour. Just days before Mexicans vote for their next president on Sunday, one of the hottest topics on voters' minds is the violence connected to drug-trafficking....

June 25, 2012  |   One of the top contenders in Mexico's July 1 presidential election, Josefina Vazquez Mota of the Partido Accion Nacional, or PAN, is portraying herself as tough on crime and a protector of families. "I will be a president in...

June 20, 2012  |   Former President Carter helps an Egyptian voter at a polling station in Cairo on May 24 during the first round of presidential elections. Photo by Wissam Saleh/AFP/Getty Images. Former President Jimmy Carter, whose Atlanta-based Carter Center observed voting in...

June 20, 2012  |   Central de Abasto, Mexico City's main wholesale produce market. Photo by Susana Gonzalez/Bloomberg via Getty Images. As Mexicans move to elect a new president on July 1, whoever wins the keys to the official residence, or Los Pinos, will...

June 19, 2012  |   Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in a courtroom in Cairo. Photo by AFP/Getty Images. Updated July 16 at 1:26 p.m. ET: The prosecutor general's office ordered former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak back to prison on Monday after about a...

June 11, 2012  |   Syrian security forces inspect an explosion that targeted a military bus near Qudssaya, a neighborhood of Damascus, on June 8. Photo by AFP/Getty Images. Syria's opposition is advancing in terms of weapons and communications support, and the regime under...

June 6, 2012  |   In Syria, a rebel uprising against President Bashar al-Assad and the regime's crackdown continue to spill blood on both sides despite international envoy Kofi Annan's U.N.-backed proposed ceasefire. The violence stops temporarily where U.N. observers go, but the effort is...

June 5, 2012  |   A symbol of all that is British, Queen Elizabeth II celebrated 60 years on the throne during four days' worth of activities, ending Tuesday, that drew crowds of admirers of the royal family. The monarch is to England as...

June 4, 2012  |   Britain's Queen Elizabeth II celebrates 60 years on the throne this week, a reign that has covered 12 U.S. presidents. Since the 1950s, from White House state dinners to tours of Buckingham Palace, the 86-year-old queen has met with...

May 31, 2012  |   Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng with his wife Yuan Weijing. Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images. Chinese legal activist Chen Guangcheng clarified Thursday that despite escaping house arrest last month and his alleged abuse by local authorities, he wants to return...

May 28, 2012  |   A massacre of more than 100 people in Houla, Syria, over the weekend is causing violence to spike in Lebanon, where Time magazine's Rania Abouzeid is reporting. She described this and other fallout from the fighting...

May 28, 2012  |   When former Army infantryman Tyler Heath was deployed to Iraq, he battled militants and became inured to gruesome sights. Once returning home to Colorado, he had to recalibrate. The intense combat, the feelings of anger and violence, and the...

May 28, 2012  |   A staple to most militaries around the world, dogs hold important roles including sniffing out drugs and bombs, finding victims of natural disasters, and lifting the morale of injured troops. But what happens after they've served their time in...

May 23, 2012  |   With this week's presidential election representing the end of the transition from a military to civilian government, many Egyptians will be watching not only the results but for a clean process as well. Egyptians are voting in the first...

May 22, 2012  |   Pakistan is experiencing a surge in many types of violence, and some of the women working to counteract it place some of the blame on the country's schools. Naziha Ali, a journalist and documentary filmmaker in...

May 21, 2012  |   As world leaders struggle to work out details of an exit strategy from Afghanistan, police pushed back hundreds of protesters who were trying to reach the site of the NATO summit in Chicago this week. Within the summit's walls,...

May 15, 2012  |   Leading up to the NATO summit, the heads of NATO armed forces met in Brussels on April 25 to discuss the Afghan war withdrawal and other matters. Photo by Kristof Van Accom/AFP/Getty Images. When world leaders gather this weekend...

May 14, 2012  |   Saima Anwar lives in the Swat area of northern Pakistan. Her family was poor and couldn't pay for her education, so she worked a part-time job to get through school. But when she wanted to become a lawyer --...

May 9, 2012  |   Disputes along the border of Sudan and newly independent South Sudan blow hot and cold. Last month, fighting between the northern and southern armies over Sudan's Heglig oil fields took the conflict to a new high. Although the battles...

May 8, 2012  |   Yemeni army soldiers on base in the southern town of Loder, Yemen, where they have been fighting al-Qaida militants. Photo by AFP/Getty Images. Although the latest attempt to take down an aircraft using a bomb hidden in underwear failed,...

May 4, 2012  |   Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Kashiwazaki Kariwa nuclear power station in Kashiwazaki City, Niigata Prefecture, Japan. Photo by Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg via Getty Images. More than a year after an earthquake and tsunami battered Japan's northeastern coast and damaged its nuclear...

May 3, 2012  |   A screen grab from Middle East Broadcasting Center from 2002 shows Osama bin Laden sitting between his lieutenant Ayman al-Zawahri and Suleiman Abu Ghaith, al-Qaida spokesman. Photo by AFP/Getty Images. A batch of documents seized from slain al-Qaida...

May 1, 2012  |   President Obama greeted Army Lt. Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti and U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Ryan Crocker when he arrived at Bagram Air Base outside Kabul late Tuesday night. Updated 8 p.m. ET | President Obama made a surprise visit...

April 30, 2012  |   The Jamia Binoria Madrassa in downtown Karachi is considered one of Pakistan's more moderate Islamic institutions. Within these whitewashed concrete walls, students receive a mixture of secular and religious education. Courses include in-depth Quranic teachings, math, social science and...

April 24, 2012  |   Imran Khan is the head of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, which boycotted elections in 2008 but is running in upcoming parliamentary elections. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan | From his veranda, cricket player-turned-politician Imran Khan recently told a group of visiting U.S....

April 23, 2012  |   Rain gives this Kony 2012 poster in Minneapolis a tie-dye look. A 30-minute video that went viral this spring highlighted the atrocities of Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony and asked viewers to blanket their towns with "Kony 2012" posters on...

April 20, 2012  |   The online newsroom of Dawn newspaper in Karachi. Photo by Larisa Epatko/PBS NewsHour. Two days before his brutal death, Dawn editor Murtaza Razvi replied to my email asking why he and his family chose to live in Pakistan despite...

April 17, 2012  |   KARACHI, Pakistan | There's a bridge in Karachi called "Native Jetty" where people go to jump to their deaths. Others frequent the same spot to toss dough balls into the water for luck. This juxtaposition of hope and despair...

April 16, 2012  |   President Barack Obama and Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos head to a press conference at the Summit of the Americas. Photo by Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images. In Latin American countries where drug violence rages, leaders are increasingly pushing for a...

March 29, 2012  |   Updated at 9:55 p.m. with broadcast video. In plenty of other countries, a political rally is a familiar sight. But not so in Myanmar, also known as Burma, until last year when the government began loosening some long-held rules....

March 16, 2012  |   U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Ryan Crocker told NewsHour correspondent Jeffrey Brown Friday that while safe havens for Taliban extremists in Pakistan continue to pose a "real threat," steps the United States and Afghan President Hamid Karzai...

March 15, 2012  |   Afghan President Hamid Karzai. Photo by Majid Saeedi/Getty Images. A rocky few weeks for the United States in Afghanistan got even rockier Thursday with two simultaneous though presumably unrelated events. The Taliban called off talks with the United States,...

March 14, 2012  |   With violence putting people in the Nuba Mountains region of Sudan in peril, actor and human rights activist George Clooney said Wednesday in an interview with the NewsHour's Judy Woodruff that it was only right to...

March 13, 2012  |   Most of the prized minerals needed to make high-tech products such as hybrid car batteries and cell phones come from China. But limits China is placing on those materials are making it harder for U.S. manufacturers...

March 12, 2012  |   The shootings occurred in Panjwai district in Kandahar province in southern Afghanistan. On Sunday, an American Army staff sergeant allegedly left his base in southern Afghanistan, went into homes in a nearby village, and shot and killed at least...

March 9, 2012  |   Using historical weather patterns, NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory developed this model of how debris will circulate across the Pacific Ocean. Although a year has passed since Japan's tsunami sucked tons of wood, nets and other debris into the...

March 8, 2012  |   At an International Women's Day event in Washington, D.C., first lady Michelle Obama emphasized a message she said she hoped all women would hear: "Injustice will not stand. We will not stay silent in the presence of evil. ......

March 8, 2012  |   Joseph Kony, leader of the Lord's Resistance Army. Photo by Stuart Price/AFP/Getty Images.A video made by the activist group Invisible Children has recently taken flight on the Internet. It lays out a plan for a publicity blitz to inform...

March 6, 2012  |   Pro-Tibetan demonstrators march in front of a hotel in Los Angeles on Feb. 16 during a visit by Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping. Photo by Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images.Fed up with the Chinese government's tactics aimed at stemming unrest,...

March 5, 2012  |   Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Obama at the White House on Monday. Photo by Amos Ben Gershom/Israeli Government Press Office via Getty Images. President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's meetings this week were interesting to...

March 2, 2012  |   A campaign banner for Vladimir Putin that says "For Putin! And That's It!" hangs in Moscow. Photo by Alexander Nemenov/AFP/Getty Images. Russians vote Sunday in a presidential election that many expect will bring Vladimir Putin back into office. Protesters,...

March 1, 2012  |   Syrian Arab Red Crescent volunteers set up an aid station in a mosque in Homs, Syria. Photo by I. Malla/Syrian Arab Red Crescent. As the International Committee of the Red Cross' appeal for a daily two-hour ceasefire in the...

February 28, 2012  |   Men move pipes at the Saudi Star rice farm in Gambella, Ethiopia. Photo by Dallas McNamara. In an effort to clear land for investors and help boost Ethiopia's economy, the government in the East African nation is relocating farmers...

February 27, 2012  |   A street vender sells newspapers about Sunday's presidential election in Senegal. Photo by Issouf Sanogo/AFP/Getty Images. Senegal, a West African nation reputed as being one of the continent's most stable democracies, held presidential elections Sunday despite earlier violent protests...

February 24, 2012  |   Venezuelan maestro Gustavo Dudamel greets young Venezuelan musicians during a concert in Caracas on Feb. 16. Photo by Leo Ramirez/AFP/Getty Images. On Friday's NewsHour, education correspondent John Merrow reports on how an adaptation of a music program from Venezuela...

February 22, 2012  |   Market in Sudan's only oil-producing region South Kordofan. Photo by Ashraf Shazly/AFP/Getty Images. When South Sudan gained its independence from Sudan in July, one of the major sticking points between the two countries was how to handle oil production....

February 17, 2012  |   Photo of Anthony Shadid by Terissa Schor via Flickr Creative Commons. The death of New York Times foreign correspondent Anthony Shadid has been followed by an outpouring of praise for the talented and humble reporter, who passed away Thursday...

February 16, 2012  |   A woman lies next to her child as he recuperates from malnutrition at a Doctors Without Borders clinic in southern Ethiopia in 2008. Photo by Siegfried Modola/AFP/Getty Images. About 2 million children who are malnourished die each year worldwide,...

February 13, 2012  |   Henrique Capriles, Venezuelan presidential candidate of the opposition Democratic Unity coalition, speaks at a press conference in Caracas on Feb. 7. Photo by Juan Barreto/AFP/Getty Images The opposition to Venezuela's long-time President Hugo Chavez is getting a face ahead...

February 7, 2012  |   Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti said Tuesday that the eurozone crisis has brought up "old phantoms about prejudices between" North and South Europe. View a preview clip above, and watch the full interview on Tuesday's NewsHour....

February 3, 2012  |   Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti arrives at the EU summit in Brussels on Jan. 30. Photo by Jean-Christophe Verhaegen/AFP/Getty Images. As European countries continue to struggle with how to resolve the region's financial crisis, one of the key voices...

February 2, 2012  |   Residents of the Tsamiyar Boka neighborhood of the northern Nigerian city of Kano. Photo by Aminu Abubakar/AFP/Getty Images. Nigerians not only are bracing for further attacks by the hard-line Islamist sect Boko Haram, they're also worried that disenchanted poor...

February 1, 2012  |   Activists in favor of a road-building project enter La Paz, Bolivia. Photo by Aizar Raldes/AFP/Getty Images. One of South America's most controversial leaders finds himself -- yet again -- squeezed between two competing demands and constituencies. Bolivian President Evo...

January 27, 2012  |   On Jan. 27, 1945, Soviet troops liberated Auschwitz -- a sprawling complex containing 48 labor and extermination camps where more than 1 million people were killed during the Holocaust. In 2005, the U.N. Security Council designated Jan. 27 an...

January 25, 2012  |   Egyptians gather in Tahrir Square in Cairo on the anniversary of the Jan. 25 revolution. Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images. As Egyptians amassed in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Tuesday to mark the one-year anniversary of the start of...

January 23, 2012  |   In the Philippines, a growing population of people has led to a sharp decline in fish, a vital part of the diet. To address the problem, one organization is making birth control more readily accessible to those wishing to keep...

January 20, 2012  |   A soldier keeps a rifle beside his seat while patrolling a protest in Lagos in southwestern Nigeria on Jan. 16. Photo by Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP/Getty Images. The Nigerian government narrowly averted a lengthy strike that would have cut off...

January 19, 2012  |   King Abdullah II of Jordan told Margaret Warner Thursday that he expects the "loss of life" will continue in Syria and that the key players "don't really know what to do" about the conflict in the...

January 16, 2012  |   Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou thanks volunteers at his campaign headquarters in Taipei on Sunday after his re-election win. Photo by Patrick Lin/AFP/Getty Images. Much is made of Taiwan's relations with the United States and China, but rather it was...

January 13, 2012  |   PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti | Artist Jean Herard Celeur found a way to reuse rubble from Haiti's 2010 earthquake: totem pole-like creations and one-of-a-kind wall art. View a slide show of his work. For more practical purposes, Haitians are participating in...

January 12, 2012  |   Mario Heriveaux, his wife Venise, and their three daughters Astride, 14, Loudemiha, 12, and Marvencia, 3. PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti | Mario Heriveaux, 47, recalls the day the earthquake struck two years ago. He and his family were watching TV when...

January 11, 2012  |   PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti | The lack of security and lighting in Haiti's tent camps, and the flimsy structures themselves, make them ripe for violence, including rape. It's hard to tell how widespread violence against women has been, because often victims are...

January 10, 2012  |   Billy Forge at the Champs de Mars tent camp in Port-au-Prince, Haiti; NewsHour photo by Larisa Epatko PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti | The door to Billy Forge's home displays a Biblical verse from Isaiah 22:22: "I will place on his shoulder...

January 9, 2012  |   PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti | On Jan. 12, 2010, a magnitude-7 earthquake rocked Haiti, killing some 223,000 people and leaving 1.5 million homeless. On a visit last week to the capital, signs of rebuilding are everywhere. A small merengue band greets...

January 4, 2012  |   Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann suspended her campaign Wednesday after coming in sixth in the Iowa caucuses -- the first test of the 2012 GOP presidential field. "The people of Iowa spoke with a very clear voice,...

December 30, 2011  |   It's a year that will be remembered as one that ended authoritative regimes in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen. In 2011, the most-wanted fugitive in the world was killed in Pakistan and severe weather battered the global population. We...

December 22, 2011  |   Following the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il on Saturday, the mood in South Korea has remained calm. "We don't see anybody running to get ready for war," or stocking up their pantry, Stella Kim, a journalist based in...

December 21, 2011  |   An interpreter speaks with Kurdish villagers in Al-Hamdaniya district, Iraq. Photo by Warrick Page/Getty Images. Several thousand Iraqis, including many who helped the United States during the Iraq war, are caught in a grim race between death threats in...

December 19, 2011  |   An electronics store in Seoul, South Korea, shows reports about Kim Jong Il's death. Photo by Chiho Jeong/Bloomberg via Getty Images. The death of North Korea's "Dear Leader" Kim Jong Il on Saturday accelerates the transition to his son,...

December 14, 2011  |   In a wide-ranging interview with Jim Lehrer at the Newseum Wednesday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton defended critical comments she made about Russia's recent elections and called China's shortcuts in the marketplace "deeply distressing." View highlights...

December 13, 2011  |   An Afghan nomad boy with his dog at a mud hut in the outskirts of Mazar-e Sharif, the capital of Balkh province, on Dec. 4. Photo by Qais Usyan/AFP/Getty Images. As NATO nations pull their troops out of Afghanistan...

December 12, 2011  |   In an interview with Jeffrey Brown -- airing in full on Monday's NewsHour -- British Foreign Secretary William Hague said the UK will issue further sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program, and that Syrian President...

December 12, 2011  |   Iraqi national police and army hold a joint parade in Baghdad in November. Photo by Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP/Getty Images. It's been nearly nine years since U.S. soldiers and Marines invaded Iraq. Now, with the last U.S. troops due to leave...

December 9, 2011  |   Syrian blogger Amjad Baiazy speaks during the Freedom Online conference in The Hague on Friday. Photo by Jerry Lampen/SFP/Getty Images. Twenty-two countries gathered in The Hague this week to pledge their support for Internet freedoms around the world, but...

December 8, 2011  |   Many presidents' cherished pets have made their mark in the public eye -- and on the White House lawn. They've made movies, "written" books and received fan mail from around the country. View a slide show of first pets...

December 7, 2011  |   Egypt's top two Islamist parties -- the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafists -- are squaring off in runoff elections this week. "Now we have a real street fight in the precincts," says Charles Sennott, executive editor...

December 6, 2011  |   Afghan policemen stand guard after an explosion in the capital Kabul. Photo by Daud Yardost/AFP/Getty Images. Afghanistan saw the worst sectarian violence since the Taliban's fall from power when two suicide bombers struck Shiite Muslims celebrating the holy day...

December 5, 2011  |   A parliamentary election campaign poster of the United Russia ruling party depicts Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and President Dmitry Medvedev in Moscow. Photo by Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP/Getty Images. The failure of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's once-dominant political party to eke...

December 2, 2011  |   Pakistani man rides his bicycle past the house of kidnapped American Warren Weinstein in Lahore, Pakistan. Photo by Arif Ali/AFP/Getty Images. The August kidnapping of Warren Weinstein, an American aid worker in Pakistan, came into the spotlight again this...

December 2, 2011  |   Anna Hazare breaks his fast in August after Parliament adopted a draft anti-corruption resolution. Photo by K Asif/India Today Group/Getty Images. Long ago, an activist from a small village in western India went on hunger strikes to improve his...

November 30, 2011  |   Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrives in Naypyidaw, Myanmar, on Wednesday. Myanmar Deputy Foreign Minister Myo Myint is on the left. Photo by Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images. Myanmar's journey from isolation advanced Wednesday with the arrival of U.S. Secretary of...

November 29, 2011  |   Ballot counting begins in the first round of Egypt's parliamentary elections. Photo by Odd Andersen/AFP/Getty Images. Despite some rumors of political parties trying to entice votes through payments and other means, a second day of voting in Egypt came...

November 28, 2011  |   View a slide show of Congo's Election Day. Updated Dec. 9: Results from Congo's election commission show President Joseph Kabila won. Original Story: Millions of Congolese went to the polls Monday to vote on a new president and Parliament....

November 25, 2011  |   Protester painted in the colors of Egypt's flag joins thousands of other demonstrators in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Friday. Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images. Egypt's election scene, complete with campaign ads on TV and posters and billboards plastered around...

November 24, 2011  |   A girl sits atop her father's shoulders in Cairo's Tahrir Square. Photo by Odd Andersen/AFP/Getty Images. After five days of heated -- and sometimes deadly-- confrontations with police this week, protesters and Egyptian authorities have called a truce in...

November 24, 2011  |   View a slide show of the troops' final weeks in Iraq. After a nearly nine-year war, all but a handful of U.S. forces will be leaving Iraq by the end of this year. As they close up shop, we...

November 23, 2011  |   An independent report released Wednesday said Bahraini security forces used "excessive force" to muffle protesters seeking a change in government last spring. The report, commissioned by the Bahraini government, was a first for the island kingdom and marks an opportunity...

November 22, 2011  |   Watch A Perfect Terrorist Preview on PBS. See more from FRONTLINE. The bloody three-day siege in Mumbai in 2008 was one of the most high-profile terrorist attacks since 9/11. American David Coleman Headley, who helped plan the attack, is...

November 22, 2011  |   Spain's leader of the opposition conservative Popular Party Mariano Rajoy. Photo by Cristina Quicler/AFP/Getty Images. Spain's conservative Popular Party and its leader Mariano Rajoy -- the victors in last weekend's parliamentary elections -- now have the difficult job of...

November 21, 2011  |   Reporters participating in GlobalPost and Open Hands Initiative program. Unless unrest in Cairo delays them, Egypt's military leaders plan to hold parliamentary elections starting Nov. 28 to forge ahead on a planned transition to democracy following the ouster of...

November 21, 2011  |   Egyptian protesters run for cover during clashes with riot police in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday. Photo by Khaled Desouki/AFP/Getty Images. For a third straight day in Egypt's capital Cairo, police tried to beat back protesters who were flinging...

November 18, 2011  |   President Obama and Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono at ASEAN summit. Photo by Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images. The former top U.S. diplomat in Myanmar has called the latest overture to that isolated nation a "historic opportunity." But a top human...

November 18, 2011  |   South Sudanese wait to be transported on a train from Khartoum to South Sudan. Photo by Ashraf Shazly/AFP/Getty Images. A group of refugees in South Sudan must pick up and leave what they thought was a safe haven after...

November 16, 2011  |   Residents of Mandalay, Myanmar, gather outside a religious building on Tuesday to listen to monks, who are protesting for the release of all political prisoners. Photo by AFPSTR/AFP/Getty Images. Myanmar's repressive regime is showing signs of relaxing restrictions not...

November 11, 2011  |   Tribewanted-Sierra Leone, Africa - Episode 1 from Martha Skolnik on Vimeo. Friday is 11/11/11, and the minds behind the documentary and online video archive known as "One Day on Earth" are hoping thousands of people around the world will film...

November 10, 2011  |   A week after Europe's economic woes dominated the G20 summit in France, a different collection of world leaders meet in Hawaii, where they hope to strengthen ties among Asia and the Pacific region's fast-growing markets, from China to Chile....

November 9, 2011  |   Liberians cast their ballots in Tuesday's presidential runoff. Photo by Issouf Sanogo/AFP/Getty Images. Many Liberians and their friends in the West had hoped the country, once plagued by civil war, was continuing its march to democracy. But the presidential...

November 8, 2011  |   Protesters in Iran mark the anniversary of the Nov. 4, 1979, storming of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran by burning a mock "wanted" poster of President Obama. Photo by Atta Kenare/AFP/Getty Images. In the days after the U.S. Embassy...

November 7, 2011  |   Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega. Photo by Elmer Martinez/AFP/Getty Images. Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega looks poised to win a landslide victory to a third term in office after orchestrating changes to the constitution to allow him the chance to stay...

November 3, 2011  |   French President Nicolas Sarkozy and President Obama meet before the start of the G20 meeting in Cannes, France. Photo by Lionel Bonaventure - Pool/Getty Images. World leaders from the Group of 20 are meeting Thursday and...

November 2, 2011  |   The Democratic Republic of Congo, with its ongoing violent struggle over natural resources, and Norway, with its $255 billion GDP, find themselves on opposite ends of the spectrum in the U.N. Development Program's annual rankings released Wednesday. The 2011...

November 1, 2011  |   Photo of "Banks of the Seine" World Heritage Site in Paris by Matthias Ripp via Flickr Creative Commons. A new chapter is unfolding in the Palestinian bid to gain statehood in the United Nations. Momentarily thwarted in their attempts...

October 31, 2011  |   Somalis at a camp in Dollow are some of at least 200,000 people displaced within the country to escape fighting between al-Shabab insurgents and the transitional government. Photo by S. Modola/UNHCR. The humanitarian crisis in Somalia continues to deepen...

October 27, 2011  |   Photo of man in Uzbekistan by Nabikhan Utarbekov via Flickr Creative Commons. On Monday, a baby will be born somewhere and demographers will proclaim that the world's population has reached 7 billion. That's good news and bad news, according...

October 25, 2011  |   Many of Bangkok's nearly 10 million residents are hunkering down behind sandbags or seeking other temporary shelter as their homes get swallowed up by rising flood waters from the north. Thailand's worst flooding in decades, brought on by severe...

October 24, 2011  |   Workers in Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires, Argentina, voice support for President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. Photo by Daniel Garcia/AFP/Getty Images. After the August primary, Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's victory in Sunday's elections was a foregone...

October 24, 2011  |   Tunisia, the country that ushered in the Arab Spring, was the first in the region to hold unfettered elections on Sunday. Voters, spurred on by thoughts of a "new beginning," waited in line for hours in some spots to...

October 21, 2011  |   Libyan women celebrate in Tripoli after word of Gadhafi's capture and death. Photo by Marco Longari/AFP/Getty Images. Now that Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi is gone, what will the country need to do to return to normalcy and what could...

October 21, 2011  |   President Obama announced Friday that American troops will leave Iraq by the end of the year as planned, and that the "long war in Iraq" will come to an end. "Our troops in Iraq will definitely...

October 20, 2011  |   When former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko was sentenced to seven years in jail for actions she took while in office, there were no demonstrations in the streets but a sense of concern in some quarters about the direction of...

October 20, 2011  |   Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi in Tripoli in 2004. Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images. After a months-long rebellion and incessant pursuit, Libya's leader of 42 years, Moammar Gadhafi, was killed in his hometown of Sirte on Thursday. Gadhafi, known...

October 19, 2011  |   Fighting in the border areas between North and South Sudan has sent tens of thousands to seek refuge in the Nuba hills of Southern Kordofan as they watch and wait for the violence to end. In June, violence swept...

October 17, 2011  |   Pakistan, Iraq, Libya and Mexico top the list of places considered the most dangerous for journalists to work, according to a list recently released by the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers. Of 44 media workers killed thus...

October 14, 2011  |   Heavy monsoon rains have swamped a third of Thailand since summer, causing at least $3 billion in damages, according to the Thai government. In this raw video footage from APTN, residents sandbag their homes and escape...

October 13, 2011  |   A note left beside the body of the "Girl from Laredo" is signed "Z", which usually means the Zetas criminal cartel. Photo by STR/AFP/Getty Images. The mutilated bodies of two bloggers were hung from a passenger overpass in the...

October 13, 2011  |   Tent camp near Port-au-Prince. Photo by Thony Belizaire/AFP/Getty Images. More than a year and a half after Haiti suffered a catastrophic earthquake, about 500,000 Haitians still live in tent camps in and around the capital Port-au-Prince, much of which...

October 11, 2011  |   Liberians line up to vote in the capital Monrovia. Photo by Issouf Sanogo/AFP/Getty Images. Updated Oct. 17: Liberia's presidential election heads to a runoff on Nov. 8. Incumbent Ellen Johnson Sirleaf needed a majority of the vote to avoid...

October 10, 2011  |   U.S. Reaper drones at Kandahar Airfield in Afghanistan. One is armed with two 500-lb bombs. Source: GlobalPost The use of drones to find and kill militant targets in other countries has increased exponentially under the Obama administration. But the...

October 7, 2011  |   The U.S.-led war in Afghanistan began on Oct. 7, 2001. Soon after, the ruling Taliban regime fell, followed by the formation of a new government and Afghans holding their first parliamentary elections in more than 30 years. The war...

October 7, 2011  |   Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, one of three recipients of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize. Photo by Issouf Sanogo/AFP/Getty Images. Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and two other women were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize Friday. The committee recognized...

October 6, 2011  |   Diplomat and author Stephane Hessel, who is also a concentration camp survivor and former French resistance fighter, wants people to get mad and fight against what's wrong in the world, as he writes in his booklet,...

October 3, 2011  |   Kevin Grant, GlobalPost's deputy editor of special reports, speaks with Hari Sreenivasan about a series of in-depth reports that launches Monday highlighting developments and incidents of violence in the fight for gay rights around the world....

September 28, 2011  |   Pakistanis are trying to cope after being besieged by flooding for a second year in a row. In August 2010, heavy rains and subsequent flooding displaced 2 million and left at least 1,000 dead. This year, another unusually severe...

September 27, 2011  |   Palestinians cheer leader Mahmoud Abbas' return from the United Nations on Sept. 25. Israelis also hailed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's actions at the U.N. meeting. Photo by Abbas Momani/AFP/Getty Images. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister...

September 26, 2011  |   Women in mall in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Photo by Fayez Nureldine/AFP/Getty Images Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah has granted women the right to vote and run in 2015 local elections and to be appointed to his advisory Shura Council, but...

September 26, 2011  |   Photo of U.N. Security Council by Rick Bajornas/U.N. Palestinians handed the United Nations a bid for full membership on Friday, which the world body is expected to start discussing this week, while fighting continues in Libya and tensions escalate...

September 23, 2011  |   Updated at 5:45 p.m. ET with video: Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas submitted a formal request for U.N. membership Friday, saying negotiations with Israel had repeatedly broken down without results. Abbas urged the Security Council to vote...

September 21, 2011  |   Updated at 8:30 p.m. ET: NEW YORK CITY | In an address to the U.N. General Assembly in New York Wednesday, President Obama said that the Palestinian Authority's bid for statehood would circumvent the Israel-Palestinian peace...

September 20, 2011  |   Children are some of the most affected by the famine in Somalia. Photo of internally displaced Somalis by Tony Karumba/AFP/Getty Images. NEW YORK CITY | The U.S. Agency for International Development announced a new website initiative called "Forward" this...

September 13, 2011  |   Former Gen. Otto Perez Molina. Photo by Surizar via Flickr Creative Commons. Guatemalans, seeking security as the country still grapples with pervasive violence after a decades-long civil war, gave a former military general a commanding lead in elections held...

September 12, 2011  |   Egyptian protesters burn an Israeli flag outside of the embassy in Cairo in August. Photo by Khaled Desouki/AFP/Getty Images. Long-simmering tensions between Israel and Egypt boiled over Friday when an angry mob stormed the building housing the Israeli Embassy...

September 9, 2011  |   Image via Independent Television News. The crash Wednesday of an airplane carrying a professional ice hockey team not only devastated the small town they represented, but reverberated well beyond sports fans into a population already shaken by a spate...

September 7, 2011  |   The United States is "without a doubt" safer today than on Sept. 11, 2001, when terrorists attacked New York City and Washington, D.C., President Obama's chief counterterrorism adviser John Brennan told the NewsHour's Judy Woodruff on Wednesday. "This country now...

September 5, 2011  |   Time-lapse video of memorial construction from the National Park Foundation and EarthCam Ten years after the passengers and crew of United Flight 93 fought back against their hijackers, driving the airplane into the ground instead of...

September 2, 2011  |   Funeral procession following a suicide attack near a police station in the Lakki Marwat district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. Photo by STR/AFP/Getty Images. Ten years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States, many Pakistanis still...

September 1, 2011  |   Mexican President Felipe Calderon speaking to reporters on Aug. 26. Photo by Ariel Gutierrez/AFP/Getty Images. Mexican President Felipe Calderon is set to address the nation on Friday, a week after the torching of the Casino Royale in Monterrey, which...

August 31, 2011  |   Photos by Afghan journalist Farooq Jan Mangal Most of the stories coming out of Afghanistan have to do with war and suffering, but one photojournalism project is designed to shift the focus and to show the world what people's...

August 29, 2011  |   Rebels looking for Moammar Gadhafi in Tripoli. Photo by Mahmud Turkia/AFP/Getty Images. The hunt for Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi continues this week after rebels raided his palace in Tripoli and began to advance on his hometown of Sirte. LIBYA...

August 26, 2011  |   Bombing aftermath at U.N. building in Abuja, Nigeria. Photo by Henry Chukwuedo/AFP/Getty Images. A car bomber broke through two gates and detonated his explosives in front of a U.N. building in Nigeria's capital Abuja, killing at least 18 people...

August 25, 2011  |   People waiting in line for aid at an internally displaced camp in Somalia. Photo by U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. Many in East Africa, still suffering from drought and hunger, are streaming into refugee camps as other countries try...

August 24, 2011  |   Earlier this month, we aired a report from our partners at GlobalPost about protesters in Syria -- the mistreatment they endured and their tactics for getting around a restrictive regime. One method of recharging cell phone batteries described by one...

August 22, 2011  |   A girl holds up a Libyan rebel flag at a demonstration outside the Libyan consulate in Istanbul, Turkey. Photo by Mustafa Ozer/AFP/Getty Images. The chorus of voices urging Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi to step down grew louder Monday as...

August 21, 2011  |   Libyan rebels celebrate inside a captured military base near Tripoli. Photo by Filippo Monteforte/AFP/Getty Images Updated 10:30 p.m. ET | President Obama issued a statement Sunday night saying the regime of Moammar Gadhafi should come to an end, and...

August 17, 2011  |   Protester in Cairo's Tahrir Square. Photo by Mohamed Hossam/AFP/Getty Images. Despite the removal of Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak and the start of his trial earlier this month, the organizers of the protest movement that led to the government's ouster...

August 16, 2011  |   German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy attend a meeting in Paris. Photo by Philippe Wojazer/AFP/Getty Images. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy met Tuesday in Paris to come up with a joint strategy...

August 15, 2011  |   Gamal Mubarak, son of former President Hosni Mubarak, appears on TV at his trial. Photo by Khaled Desouki/AFP/Getty Images. The judge in the trial of Egypt's deposed President Hosni Mubarak delayed proceedings until next month, while in Libya rebels...

August 12, 2011  |   Police hold flowers that people gave to them at a memorial in Oslo, Norway. Photo by Odd Andersen/AFP/Getty Images Norway formed a nine-person commission Friday to investigate last month's deadly attacks in Oslo and on a youth camp, and...

August 12, 2011  |   A portion of the Berlin Wall remains after the rest was torn down in November 1989. Photo by Larisa Epatko. It started with the placement of massive flower pots and strands of naked barbed wire stretched across streets, then...

August 10, 2011  |   Workers clear wreckage of train accident in July. Photo by STR/AFP/Getty Images The fatal collision of two high-speed trains last month in China was not only a blow to the country's growing transportation system, but also to the nation's...

August 9, 2011  |   Slide show by Francine Uenuma Authorities in London dispatched 16,000 police Tuesday night in hopes of controlling riots and looting that have continued for three straight nights and spread to other cities in Britain. However, the incident that touched...

August 9, 2011  |   A new report offered by our partners at GlobalPost gets the perspective of three young revolutionaries determined to bring about change in Syria. In the film, the anti-government protesters say they have endured beatings and other torture, which only strengthens...

August 8, 2011  |   Trader at Frankfurt Stock Exchange. Photo by Ralph Orlowski/Getty Images The latest U.S. economic woes could be wielding a larger impact overseas if it weren't for two things: a lack of foreign investment options for U.S. dollars and the...

August 8, 2011  |   World markets took a tumble Monday after the United States received a credit rating downgrade Friday night, and the investigation continued into the downing of a U.S. military helicopter in Afghanistan over the weekend. WORLDWIDE MARKETS | Stocks fell while...

August 5, 2011  |   A tourist at the Choeung Ek killing fields memorial in Cambodia. Photo by Tang Chhin Sothy/AFP/Getty Images. President Obama signed a directive Thursday setting up an interagency board to come up with a coordinated governmental approach in the next...

August 4, 2011  |   President Obama celebrates his 50th birthday Thursday with the passage of the debt ceiling compromise earlier in the week likely not far from his mind. We took the opportunity to look at past presidents and what they were doing at...

August 3, 2011  |   A supporter of Hosni Mubarak holds up his picture on the first day of his trial. Photo by Khaled Desouki/AFP/Getty Images The trial of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak began Wednesday as pro- and anti-Mubarak protesters rallied outside the...

August 1, 2011  |   In a series written for the Los Angeles Times, Richard Marosi reports on cocaine smugglers in Mexico's Sinaloa cartel as Drug Enforcement Administration agents set about tracking them. He discussed his findings with Hari Sreenivasan. The preferred...

August 1, 2011  |   A hall at a police academy on the outskirts of Cairo will serve as the courtroom for Egypt's Hosni Mubarak and other officials. Photo by AFP/Getty Images Attention once again returns to the Middle East and North Africa this...

July 28, 2011  |   The International Monetary Fund's managing director Christine Lagarde said Thursday in a PBS NewsHour interview that if U.S. lawmakers can't reach an agreement on the debt ceiling, one of the global impacts could be a loss of confidence in the...

July 27, 2011  |   Our partners at GlobalPost explore the increasingly dangerous separatist movement in southern Thailand and how people are responding in a series of reports posted this week on its website. "As oblivious backpackers party up the coast, an Islamic rebellion roars...

July 26, 2011  |   Ireland's prime minister drew much praise throughout the heavily Catholic country when he criticized the Vatican for putting Church law above state law when dealing with child abuse allegations. A recent 426-page document, known as the Cloyne report, detailed how...

July 25, 2011  |   Paramedics pay their respects at a makeshift memorial outside Domkirken Church in Oslo, Norway. Photo by Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP/Getty Images The bombing in Oslo and shooting rampage at a youth camp in Utoya, Norway, by a right-wing, anti-immigration zealot have...

July 15, 2011  |   Seized weapons and alleged drug traffickers in Mexico. Photo by Yuri Cortez/AFP/Getty Images Revelations about a U.S. sting program that backfired has provoked new anger in Mexico, where lawmakers and citizens already are upset about the flow of American...

July 14, 2011  |   Photo of Pentagon by Flickr user Minfrieze The Defense Department unveiled its long-awaited strategy for cybersecurity Thursday. The plan is aimed at defending its own computer networks and those of its partners, and developing "robust cyberspace capabilities." The department...

July 13, 2011  |   Protester in Tahrir Square, Cairo. Photo by Mohamed Hossam/AFP/Getty Images Egypt's government fired 669 members of its widely criticized police force Wednesday in an attempt to concede to protesters' demands, but analysts say even more than that is needed...

July 12, 2011  |   Ahmad Wali Karzai in Kandahar, Afghanistan on April 14, 2010. AP File Photo by Rahmat Gul The assassination of Ahmed Wali Karzai, the half-brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, shows the depth and complexity of Afghanistan's power struggles and...

July 11, 2011  |   On July 9, 2011, Southern Sudanese reveled in the moment they had been awaiting for years -- seceding from the northern part of the country and the government of Khartoum, and becoming their own country as allowed under the 2005...

July 11, 2011  |   Defense Secretary Leon Panetta at Camp Victory in Iraq. Photo by U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Jacob N. Bailey Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has made an unannounced stop in Iraq, where he plans to meet with Prime Minister Nouri...

July 8, 2011  |   Betty and Gerald Ford at the White House in 1974. Photo by STR/AFP/Getty Images Betty Ford -- wife of President Gerald Ford, advocate for breast cancer awareness and activist for women's issues -- died Friday with her children around...

July 8, 2011  |   Canadian soldiers returning home from Afghanistan. Photo by Shah Marai/AFP/Getty Images Canada is ending its combat mission in Afghanistan and shifting over to training Afghan forces ahead of a planned handover of security responsibilities in 2014. In the eyes...

July 8, 2011  |   The world's newest nation, the Republic of South Sudan, formally emerges on Saturday. But even as final rehearsals and preparations for Independence Day celebrations wrapped up in the southern capital city of Juba, the threat of violence was chilling the...

July 7, 2011  |   Abyei refugees in Agok in Southern Sudan. Photo by Cassandra Nelson/Mercy Corps South Sudan's separation from North Sudan, which becomes official on Saturday, is the cause for major celebration among the millions who voted for secession, but those monitoring...

July 6, 2011  |   At 26.4 miles, the newly opened Jiaozhou Bay Bridge in China entered the record books as the longest sea bridge in the world, taking the title from Louisiana's Lake Pontchartrain Causeway, which spans 23.8 miles. China's bridge connects the...

July 1, 2011  |   Syrian refugees who fled the fighting on June 13. Photo by Mustafa Ozer /AFP/Getty Images Syria saw some of its largest protests yet Friday in an anti-government movement that has gripped the country since March. Hundreds of thousands took...

July 1, 2011  |   Riot police responding to protest in Xintang, China, on June 13. Photo by STR/AFP/Getty Images Protests are nothing new in China. There are thousands every year, but this year's demonstrations are different -- both in their intensity and in...

June 30, 2011  |   Soldier on patrol in Paktika province, Afghanistan. Photo courtesy of Defense Department One day after the White House released its counterterrorism strategy to conquer al-Qaida and its partners, the Defense Department announced the death of a leader of the...

June 29, 2011  |   Greece's Parliament approved a package of austerity measures Wednesday, a key step toward getting a bailout from the International Monetary Fund and European Union in order to avoid defaulting on its debts next month. The five-year plan is aimed at...

June 28, 2011  |   Princeton Lyman, U.S. envoy for Sudan, told Margaret Warner this week that the Nuba Mountain region in Southern Kordofan, where Northern forces have moved in and many residents have fled, is not in danger of becoming...

June 24, 2011  |   Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on June 7. Updated July 1 at 8:50 a.m. ET | Still in Cuba, Chavez said in a videotaped message on state television Thursday night that he...

June 23, 2011  |   Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the realistic chances of a negotiated settlement with the Taliban to end the Afghan war "are probably good," he told Jim Lehrer in an interview airing on Thursday's NewsHour. "I think we have to...

June 22, 2011  |   The war in Afghanistan, sparked by the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, has continued for nearly 10 years. Elements of the Taliban regime -- though toppled -- have continued to fight against international forces, which...

May 24, 2011  |   DV.load; Map illustrates 1967 borders of Gaza Strip and West Bank. Source: The Washington Institute for Near East Policy The notion of going back to pre-1967 borders...

May 23, 2011  |   View Obama Europe Trip - May 2011 in a larger map President Obama will spend this week in Europe, meeting with dignitaries in Ireland, England and Poland. He'll break away for the G8 summit in France, where he's expected to...

May 19, 2011  |   With a backdrop of continuing anti-government protests in the Arab world and criticism from some corners over a perceived uneven U.S. response, President Obama said in a major policy speech Thursday that the U.S. would use...

May 18, 2011  |   The Obama administration issued sanctions against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad Wednesday in response to the continued violent crackdown on anti-government protesters in the country. The sanctions freeze any assets that Assad and the six government officials named in the executive...

May 18, 2011  |   Image of James Foley working in Libya courtesy of GlobalPost Updated 1:14 p.m. ET, May 18 GlobalPost freelance contributor James Foley and three other foreign journalists were released Wednesday from a detention facility in Libya, where they had been...

May 18, 2011  |   Updated Sept. 30, 2011: U.S. officials have confirmed that U.S.-born senior al-Qaida leader Anwar al-Awlaki was killed in Yemen. Another al-Qaida leader, Atiyah Abd al-Rahman, was killed in Pakistan's tribal area by a U.S. drone strike in August. Original Post:...

May 17, 2011  |   Queen Elizabeth II visits Garden of Remembrance. Photo by Irish Government - Pool/Getty Images Queen Elizabeth II began her visit to Ireland doing something many Irish thought they would never see -- laying a wreath at the memorial to...

May 16, 2011  |   President Obama Amid continuing protests in the Middle East and following the departure of his Mideast envoy, President Obama plans to deliver a policy speech on the region on Thursday. We'll provide full coverage...

May 13, 2011  |   Parents walk to Okawa elementary school to pray for missing children in the tsunami-hit city of Ishinomaki, Miyagi prefecture on May 11. This week, the first group of 100 people were allowed to return to their...

May 11, 2011  |   Video image of James Foley reporting in Libya provided by GlobalPost Our partners at GlobalPost reported Wednesday that their freelance contributor James Foley and another Western journalist detained with him in Libya, Claire Morgan Gillis, were allowed a visitor...

May 11, 2011  |   This third-party photo, reportedly taken in Daraa, was obtained by AFP/Getty Images and cannot be independently verified. The Syrian government stepped up its campaign to quash a seven-week uprising Thursday, reportedly using tanks to fire on cities. At least...

May 9, 2011  |   This week, we'll take a closer look at Osama bin Laden's lair and what the Pakistani military might have known about it. We'll also explore what comes next for Mexico, where thousands protested growing drug-related violence over the weekend. PAKISTAN...

May 6, 2011  |   Board showing vote tally of British referendum. Britain's junior partner in the national coalition, the Liberal Democrats led by Nick Clegg, got a double whammy Friday when they took a beating in local elections and lost...

May 5, 2011  |   Television image of al-Qaida leaders Ayman al-Zawahri, Osama bin Laden and Suleiman Abu Ghaith in 2002. The death of al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden immediately raised questions about whether the terrorist network would suffer without its recognizable...

May 4, 2011  |   People gather around Osama Bin Laden's hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan; Aamir Qureshi/AFP/Getty Images Bullet holes riddle the walls of the compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, where terrorist leader Osama bin Laden was hiding -- one of the few remaining signs...

May 3, 2011  |   President Obama shakes hands with Adm. Mike Mullen after his statement about the mission against Osama bin Laden. CIA Director Leon Panetta and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are pictured at left. In...

May 2, 2011  |   Slide show by Lauren Knapp and Vanessa Dennis Reaction to Sunday's news of al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden's death was swift and celebratory in the United States, but more restrained in other places, such as Pakistan, Afghanistan and some...

April 29, 2011  |   Following in the tradition of the British royal family, Prince William and Kate Middleton exchanged vows Friday morning in London's Westminster Abbey. View video of the ceremony: We also blogged the day's events: 3:15 - 4:45 a.m....

April 28, 2011  |   Cambodian soldiers standing guard at border with Thailand The latest flare-up in a long-standing territorial dispute between Thailand and Cambodia has resulted in the deaths of at least 15 people and displaced tens of thousands during a...

April 27, 2011  |   Camera position outside Westminster Abbey Crowds are building in anticipation of Friday's royal wedding, with tent camps cropping up along the route the bride and groom will travel. Estimates say about 700,000 spectators will come to London...

April 26, 2011  |   UK Secretary of State for Defense Liam Fox says good-bye to U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates after a meeting at the Pentagon. British Secretary of State for Defense Liam Fox said in an interview with the...

April 25, 2011  |   After months of non-stop crises and economic woes around the world, Britons -- and an expected millions of television viewers globally -- get a respite Friday with the happy event of Prince William and Kate Middleton's wedding. Read: We've rounded...

April 22, 2011  |   Demonstrators marched against violence in Cuernavaca, Morelos state in Mexico on April 6. After five years of a government war on the drug cartels and the deaths of more than 30,000 people, some Mexicans are organizing...

April 21, 2011  |   Master Taylor Lance Sergeant Matthew Else inspects the cut of Irish Guards' uniforms at Victoria barracks in Windsor. The guards will perform ceremonial duties at the wedding. In a week, Prince William and Kate Middleton...

April 21, 2011  |   Clare Morgana Gillis, a freelance journalist held in Libya along with GlobalPost contributor James Foley and another Western reporter, called her parents Thursday from a detention facility in Tripoli. It was the first contact any of them made with the...

April 18, 2011  |   A demonstrator in northern Nigeria holds a poster of presidential candidate Muhammadu Buhari Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan's win in Saturday's presidential elections unleashed riots in some parts of the West African nation and underscored the challenges...

April 18, 2011  |   Libyan rebel firing a mounted machine gun in Misrata Syria's anti-government protests, still surging after a month, and a breakthrough in delivering humanitarian assistance in Libya, despite the military stalemate, are among the international developments we're...

April 15, 2011  |   On Monday, France became the first country to make it illegal to wear full-face veils in public. The law generated intense debate over whether it was the right way to counter extremists, and whether other countries should do the...

April 14, 2011  |   Buoyed by the ruling People's Democratic Party's loss of seats in last weekend's parliamentary elections, opposition parties this week tried -- and failed -- to mount a formal challenge to President Goodluck Jonathan ahead of Saturday's presidential vote. The collapse...

April 13, 2011  |   Two of the world's major financial institutions are looking at an issue only occasionally associated with economic development -- how to curb violence. A new report on that topic will be on the agenda of the annual spring meeting of...

April 12, 2011  |   NASA marked the 30th anniversary of the first space shuttle launch and the 50th anniversary of the first human in space -- Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin in 1961 -- by naming the final destinations of its retiring space shuttle fleet....

April 11, 2011  |   Presidential candidate Ollanta Humala No matter what happens in Peru's presidential runoff in June, change is coming. Judging from partial results from Sunday's first round of voting, the top two candidates represent a departure from current...

April 11, 2011  |   Rebel fighters in Brega, Libya An African Union delegation is working to broker a deal this week between Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and rebels seeking his ouster. And Japan hits the one month mark since the...

April 8, 2011  |   Ai Weiwei poses in front of his artwork in Munich, Germany, in 2009. Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is one of several dozen activists arrested in China over the past few months. But as one of the...

April 7, 2011  |   Our partners at GlobalPost have announced that Libyan forces backing Moammar Gadhafi detained one of their correspondents, James Foley, along with three other journalists while they were reporting near the city of Brega. Updated 9:55 a.m. ET on April 8:...

April 5, 2011  |   As protesters in North Africa and the Middle East vent their anger with their governments, the world is again transfixed and transformed. The birth of global marketplaces and communication binds people together, but can also leave some behind, former U.N....

April 4, 2011  |   Michel Martelly greeting supporters after voting March 20 Preliminary results released Monday in Haiti's presidential run-off election show musician Michel Martelly as the winner with more than 67 percent of the vote. Martelly's "compas" style of...

April 4, 2011  |   Forces supporting Alassane Ouattara in Ivory Coast. Tensions remain high in Ivory Coast, where the incumbent president refuses to give way to his successor, while Haiti is poised to learn who its next president will be when...

April 1, 2011  |   Tents have cropped up at Zam Zam camp in El Fasher, North Darfur, as more Darfuris seek refuge there. Following a peaceful referendum for southern independence earlier this year, other parts of Sudan are the source...

March 30, 2011  |   A violent, five-hour long attack Tuesday on a government building in Tikrit, the hometown of Saddam Hussein, claimed at least 57 lives and prompted new questions about the strength of security in Iraq. Gunmen wearing belts holding explosive materials...

March 30, 2011  |   Pro-Ouattara forces in western Ivory Coast In the four months since people in the West African nation of Ivory Coast decisively voted to turn out their president, his refusal to leave office has led to an...

March 28, 2011  |   Syrian children holding a flag and picture of President Bashar al-Assad at a pro-government rally in Damascus on March 25 Even as President Obama prepares to address the nation to discuss Libya Monday night, revolutions are...

March 25, 2011  |   Video edited by Justin Scuiletti Egypt's march toward democracy -- from protests in January to President Hosni Mubarak's resignation in February and constitutional changes in March -- was more like a sprint. Author and blogger William...

March 24, 2011  |   President Obama plays soccer with some children in Rio de Janeiro When President Obama visited Brazil this week, he touted the two countries' similarities and the mutual benefits of economic cooperation. But while Brazil is enjoying...

March 22, 2011  |   Election workers count ballots in Port-au-Prince, Haiti In a matter of days, Haitians will learn if a pop singer or former first lady is their next president when results from Sunday's run-off vote are tallied. Either...

March 22, 2011  |   Couple surveying damages in Japan In northeastern Japan, where people are still sifting through wreckage from the March 11 tsunami, more than a million households are without water. While in Haiti, health workers are scrambling to...

March 21, 2011  |   Night vision view of Tomahawk missile fired into Libya. Photo courtesy of Defense Department It's a busy week for the foreign affairs desk. Here are the hot spots our foreign affairs team will be watching: LIBYA | The U.S.-European...

March 18, 2011  |   Demonstrators in Egypt's Tahrir Square hold a sign that says "No to limited constitution amendments, Yes for a new constitution." Egyptians vote Saturday on a slate of constitutional changes in time for parliamentary elections in June...

March 18, 2011  |   When word came around midnight local time of the U.N. resolution in support of a no-fly zone, the main square in Benghazi erupted with gunfire, fireworks and marching, GlobalPost reporter James Foley said later Friday. "It was by far...

March 17, 2011  |   Checking radiation levels of an evacuee of the Fukushima vicinity in Japan In Japan, foreign governments are evacuating their citizens from the area of the Fukushima nuclear plant, as the Japanese military works to douse the...

March 15, 2011  |   NASA's Aqua satellite took images of Japan's northeastern coast before and after (right) the March 11 tsunami. Plant-covered land is shown in bright green. After the disaster, the city of Sendai, where about 2,700 homes washed away, appears...

March 14, 2011  |   Updated 3:25 p.m. ET, March 15 Bahrain's king declared a three-month state of emergency Tuesday as violent confrontations continued between anti-government protesters and security forces. Three died in clashes Tuesday. Troops from Saudi Arabia and police from the United...

March 14, 2011  |   Sailors prepare to deliver supplies for relief efforts in Japan following earthquake. Photo courtesy of U.S. Navy Japan's triple whammy -- earthquake, tsunami and a possible nuclear disaster, which Prime Minister Naoto Kan called the worst crisis since World...

March 10, 2011  |   Following Egypt's revolution that brought down former president Hosni Mubarak a month ago, Egyptians are cautiously optimistic about the movement toward democracy, but sporadic violence continues to hamper the process, reports Jon Jensen, GlobalPost's correspondent in Cairo. On Thursday, protesters...

March 9, 2011  |   Anonymous calls on the Internet for Tunisian-inspired protests in China roused several hundred people to protest on Feb. 20, but the heavy-handed response that followed actually became the story, said Kathleen McLaughlin, GlobalPost's correspondent in Beijing. The following week, police...

March 8, 2011  |   Women came together on March 8 to express a message of solidarity on International Women's Day by dancing in Iraq, protesting in Ivory Coast and dressing as men in Lebanon. This year marked the 100th anniversary of the designated...

March 8, 2011  |   Muhammad Yunus in Dhaka on March 7. Photo by Munir Uz Zaman/AFP/Getty Images A Bangladeshi court has upheld the removal of Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus as head of the micro-lending Grameen Bank he founded, in a move his supporters...

March 7, 2011  |   Libyan rebel fighter. Photo by Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images Violence from nations as disparate as Libya and Guatemala will dominate the international week ahead for the NewsHour. MONDAY: In Libya, we will continue full coverage the civil war between Libyan...

March 4, 2011  |   Students at a community-based school in eastern Afghanistan Education is often another casualty in countries wracked by violence, a recent U.N. report found, as more immediate needs such as food and shelter take...

March 3, 2011  |   Soldiers and Federal Police in Apatzingan, Mexico During the week of Mexican President Felipe Calderon's visit with President Obama, at least 17 bodies were unearthed in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero and gunmen killed...

March 2, 2011  |   Click on the image to launch slide show. At least 150 people died and more are feared buried in the rubble caused by a 6.3-magnitude earthquake that struck the city of Christchurch on New Zealand's South Island on Feb....

March 1, 2011  |   Political graffiti in Ireland Much of Ireland's modern history is defined by rebellion. It looks like the country had another one over the weekend. An Irish electorate, disgruntled with its government's handling of the economic recession,...

February 28, 2011  |   Bangladeshi workers at a makeshift camp on the shores of Benghazi wait to leave Libya by boat. As part of the rollout of our new World page, the PBS NewsHour is introducing some new online features...

February 24, 2011  |   Marines patrol in southern Afghanistan. Since U.S.-led forces unseated the Taliban in 2001, springtime in Afghanistan has generally brought increased fighting between insurgents and coalition forces. Many Afghans expect this year to be no different. In...

February 24, 2011  |   Our redesigned World page has more of the NewsHour's in-depth analysis and on-the-ground reporting from senior correspondents Margaret Warner and Ray Suarez. Sign up for e-mail alerts, find links to our photos and features, and see what the foreign affairs...

February 23, 2011  |   As pressures to unseat Moammar Gadhafi continue in Libya, we looked into the NewsHour's video vault to learn more about the flamboyant, controversial leader. In a 1985 interview with the NewsHour's Robert MacNeil, Gadhafi said he did not fear a...

February 22, 2011  |   Mohammed Badie, the head of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, at a press conference in November. PBS' Frontline airs a report Tuesday night called "Revolution in Cairo" on Egypt's youth movement, which mobilized under the radar of the...

February 18, 2011  |   Bahraini Shiites at the funerals of two men killed in anti-regime protests in the village of Sitra Demonstrations erupting in Bahrain reflect a mainly Shiite population's discontent with the Sunni ruling family, but some analysts are...

February 17, 2011  |   Mexican Police guard agents' vehicle after it came under attack by gunmen in San Luis Potosi State in Mexico. The shooting death of a U.S. special agent and injury of another has put added strain on...

February 17, 2011  |   Click on the image to launch slide show. About 4,500 pieces of Pre-Columbian artifacts, including ceramic bowls and animal-shaped vessels, taken from Costa Rica are returning soon to their country of origin. The Brooklyn Museum, which was given the...

February 15, 2011  |   Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took to task governments, including those in China, Myanmar and Iran, for curbing Internet freedoms of their citizens, while defending the Obama administration's stance on the leaked WikiLeaks documents in a speech Tuesday. Maintaining...

February 14, 2011  |   Click on map for larger version. After government-toppling protests in Tunisia and Egypt, other "people power" protests are popping up around the region. Yemen was quick to follow with demonstrations of its own. In Jordan, King Abdullah moved fast...

February 11, 2011  |   Rally in Tahrir Square in Cairo Following President Hosni Mubarak stepping down on Friday, analysts weighed in on the country's next steps as he hands over powers to the military. The Supreme Council of the Armed...

February 11, 2011  |   President Hosni Mubarak in 2010 One of the Arab world's longest-serving leaders, Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak, stepped down Friday after 18 days of protests that continued to gain steam until the opposition's No. 1 demand --...

February 9, 2011  |   Khan el-Khalili market in Cairo Business owners near Cairo's Tahrir Square, where anti-government demonstrators have congregated for two weeks, and in the legendary bazaar and tourist haunt Khan el-Khalili are ready for...

February 7, 2011  |   Protesters stand on army tanks in Tahrir Square on Jan. 29. The Egyptian military was the subject of international attention during the massive protests in Cairo's Tahrir Square. And now as the country looks to transition...

February 4, 2011  |   As protests continue in Cairo calling for the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak, we turned to the NewsHour video vault for some additional perspective on the Egyptian leader's background. In a 1993 NewsHour interview, Mubarak said Egypt is "very keen...

February 3, 2011  |   The upheaval in Egypt is reminiscent of past protest movements and rebellions that have produced varying results. Some have brought down governments and transformed societies, others have dissipated or been crushed. We highlight some of them here: 1979: Iranian Revolution...

February 2, 2011  |   Our partners at GlobalPost have been covering political developments in Afghanistan, as well as military activities in the east and south, where troops regularly encounter Taliban fire. Correspondent James Foley reports from Kandahar on the challenges the U.S. military faces...

February 2, 2011  |   Southern Sudanese voted overwhelmingly to split from the North and become their own country in a referendum last month, but the young nation now confronts towering challenges of government structure and constitution creation, regional specialists say. Preliminary results show...

January 27, 2011  |   Protesters face off with riot police in Suez, Egypt. The Tunisia-inspired protests in Egypt demanding the end to President Hosni Mubarak's rule continued Thursday and, if organizers' predictions are correct, will continue in even greater force...

January 25, 2011  |   Demonstrators clash with police in central Cairo. Thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets of Egypt's capital in an unusual spate of anti-government protests, spurred by online postings in the wake of mass protests in...

January 21, 2011  |   SEOUL, South Korea | Near Gwanghwamun Plaza, where statues of King Sejong and Adm. Yi Sun-sin regally stand, is a colorful pagoda under renovation, fenced-off in a corner and surrounded by high-rise office buildings. It's not unusual to see...

January 20, 2011  |   SEOUL, South Korea | Signs with "wellbeing" written in English are popping up all over Korea from corner markets to high-end spas. Its meaning: a healthy and wholesome body inside and out. Bangok Ju, warming up with a cup...

January 19, 2011  |   With Chinese President Hu Jintao visiting Washington and questions over China's support of North Korea in the air, we visited a Seoul train station to ask South Koreans their opinions on China and its behavior. Their translated responses: Kim Sang...

January 18, 2011  |   SEOUL, South Korea | Many consider the sinking of the South Korean Navy ship Cheonan on March 26, 2010 as the start of the latest bout of North-South agitation, which has been smoldering ever since. North Korea denied involvement...

January 17, 2011  |   PANMUNJOM, Korean border | Although it stands for the "demilitarized zone," the DMZ is the most militarized border in the world, U.S. Army Col. Kurt Taylor told us during our recent tour of the buffer zone...

January 7, 2011  |   Sudanese prepare to move south. Residents of southern Sudan vote Sunday in a long-awaited referendum on whether to split from the north and form their own country. Analysts expect the oil-rich south will choose independence in...

January 4, 2011  |   <!-- _pap_embed_custom; //--><!]]> With Korean peninsula tensions at an all-time high, Margaret Warner is in South Korea this month to report on military and social issues. Before she left, she sat down with Hari Sreenivasan to describe her plans for...

December 30, 2010  |   It was a year of earthquakes and volcanoes, floods and toxic spills, but 2010 also saw thwarted terrorist attacks and the joyous release of 33 miners in Chile from the Earth's rocky depths. Follow the year's major world events...

December 30, 2010  |   <!-- _pap_embed_custom; //--><!]]> As Sudan prepares for a vote in January on whether the south will split from the north, one of the African nation's challenges is how to inform an electorate with a high illiteracy rate on how to...

December 21, 2010  |   President Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in Prague in April The Senate appears to be moving toward ratifying the New START nuclear arms reduction treaty with Russia. Here's a fresh look at the basics...

December 20, 2010  |   An early onslaught of snowy weather in northern Europe has closed airports, stranded motorists and canceled Lady Gaga's concert plans in Paris....

December 16, 2010  |   President Obama announced Thursday the release of the annual review of his Afghanistan and Pakistan strategy, calling it a "very difficult endeavor," but saying the U.S. is "on track to achieve our goals." DV.load('http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20008-afghanistan-and-pakistan-annual-review.js', {...

December 14, 2010  |   Sudan rally on referendum in Juba. A referendum on Sudan's contested border town of Abyei might not happen Jan. 9 as planned, said a representative of the Government of Southern Sudan on Tuesday, and legal challenges...

December 13, 2010  |   Richard Holbrooke in Georgia while he was special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan. (Irakli Gedenidze/AFP/Getty Images) Updated 8:52 p.m. ET with Clinton remarks Richard Holbrooke, who spent much of his career interfacing with troubled spots around the world,...

December 9, 2010  |   Riot police rush to corral students who broke through barricades in London's Parliament Square. Surrounded by student protests outside, British lawmakers voted Thursday to triple the university tuition fee cap in a move meant to help...

December 8, 2010  |   Protesters in front of Chinese Consulate in Los Angeles urge release of Liu Xiaobo. Chinese pro-democracy activist Liu Xiaobo will receive the Nobel Peace Prize in absentia on Friday in an award ceremony in Oslo, Norway,...

December 6, 2010  |   Delegates from Iran and the European Union, U.S., Russia, Britain, France and Germany met in Geneva Monday for their first nuclear talks in more than a year. World powers are expected to call for constraints on Tehran's uranium enrichment activities...

November 30, 2010  |   Former President Carter told Ray Suarez in an interview airing soon on the NewsHour that he has "serious doubts" that the U.S. will prevail in Afghanistan under the current set of goals. "My belief is that we'll constantly reduce our...

November 29, 2010  |   Haitian election worker walks over ballots scattered at a polling station in Port-au-Prince. Allegations of fraud, general disorganization and protests marred Haiti's presidential and legislative elections on Sunday, and Haitian officials are now mulling...

November 23, 2010  |   Iraqi Christians at a church in Amman, Jordan An assault on a church in Baghdad and other targeted attacks on Christian families are driving fear into the hearts of the remaining members of this religious minority...

November 22, 2010  |   Protest in front of Irish prime minister's office in Dublin on Monday Ireland, the European Union and International Monetary Fund agreed over the weekend to an 80 billion to 90 billion euro ($109 billion to $123...

November 16, 2010  |   Streets of the Swiss capital Bern. Photo by Larisa Epatko BASEL, Switzerland | The small nation of Switzerland, which already has a higher immigrant population than most of its neighbors, is about to vote on a measure that could...

November 9, 2010  |   Portraits of President Obama, first lady Michelle Obama, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and his wife, Ani, in Jakarta. Photo by Roslan Rahman/AFP/Getty Images During a 24-hour visit to Indonesia, President Obama plans to meet with President Susilo Bambang...

November 3, 2010  |   Relief organizations responding to Cyclone Giri, which pounded western Myanmar on Friday, are finding homes and schools swept away and a need for emergency food and water in the saltwater soaked islands. "The winds that hit these islands were...

November 3, 2010  |   Policeman reports on controlled detonation of bomb outside German Embassy in Athens. Photo by Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP/Getty Images The Federal Reserve is expected to meet Wednesday afternoon over plans to stimulate the economy, pushing stock futures up slightly as investors...

November 2, 2010  |   Iraqi mourner from Sunday's church siege. Photo by Ahmad al-Rubaye/AFP/Getty Images At least 10 explosions across the Iraqi capital Baghdad killed more than 60 people and injured 180 on Tuesday, according to Iraqi hospital sources and police. The bombings...

November 1, 2010  |   Brazil's president-elect Dilma Rousseff. Photo by Jefferson Bernardes/AFP/Getty Images Dilma Rousseff won Brazil's presidential runoff on Sunday, making her the first female president of South America's largest and most populous country. She campaigned on -- and now faces the...

October 29, 2010  |   Updated 4:30 p.m. ET The suspicious packages found on two cargo flights in Britain and Dubai "do apparently contain explosive material," President Obama told the nation Friday afternoon. He said in a televised address that a credible terrorist threat...

October 28, 2010  |   Photos from AFP/Getty Images. Click on images for larger view. In less than 24 hours, a tsunami crashed into a remote island chain and a volcano erupted in Indonesia, killing a combined total of more than 400 people and...

October 26, 2010  |   The level of fraud in Afghanistan's parliamentary election last month, where nearly a quarter of the ballots were discredited, was about equal to last year's presidential contest -- the difference is in how it's being handled, according to the U.S....

October 25, 2010  |   Prisoners at Guantanamo Bay detention camp. Photo by Larisa Epatko Omar Khadr, a Guantanamo Bay detainee accused of throwing a hand grenade that killed a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan, pleaded guilty to all five terrorism and murder charges on...

October 22, 2010  |   Health officials fear a cholera outbreak in rural Haiti that has killed at least 142 people and sickened more than 1,500 will spread to other parts of Haiti, including the earthquake-ravaged capital Port-au-Prince. The waterborne bacterial infection, which causes...

October 21, 2010  |   The militant Islamist group known as al-Shabab is deepening control over much of south and central Somalia and parts of the country's capital Mogadishu, posing threats to the U.S.-backed government in Somalia and the United States itself. Frank Langfitt, NPR's...

October 15, 2010  |   Residents of the village of Abyei, Sudan. Photo by Larisa Epatko Activists and analysts fear Sudan could be on the brink of another civil war if the oil-rich south votes to break away from the north in a Jan....

October 14, 2010  |   Chile mine rescuers. Photo by Hugo Infante/Government of Chile The complicated mission to save 33 men from the collapsed San Jose mine near Copiapo, Chile, which ended successfully Wednesday night, will cost an estimated $10 million to $20 million,...

October 12, 2010  |   Thirty-three men have been trapped in a gold and copper mine in Copiapo, Chile, since it collapsed on Aug. 5. Starting late Tuesday, a pod painted in the colors of the Chilean flag will begin lifting them one-by-one to the...

October 7, 2010  |   The timing of the Jan. 9 vote on whether Sudan will become two countries is "set in stone," despite some major unresolved issues from distribution of oil wealth to citizenship rights, State Department officials said Thursday. "We're there and working...

October 5, 2010  |   Mexican police at a crime scene in Ciudad Juarez. Photo by Jesus Alcazar/AFP/Getty Images Clashes between rival gangs in Mexico left 34 people dead over the weekend, and the beating death of a mayor is the fifth killing of...

October 4, 2010  |   Presidential candidate Dilma Rousseff. Photo by Jefferson Bernardes/AFP/Getty Images Brazil's ruling party candidate, Dilma Rousseff, won the most votes in Sunday's presidential election but not enough to avoid a runoff with second-place contender Jose Serra on Oct. 31. Rousseff,...

October 1, 2010  |   Shiite parliamentary bloc members announce Nouri al-Maliki as their candidate for premier. Photo by Ahmad al-Rubaye/AFP/Getty Images As of Friday, Iraq has the unfortunate distinction of taking the longest of any country to form a government, analysts say, as...

September 30, 2010  |   Afghan opium farmer. Photo by John Moore/Getty Images Opium production in Afghanistan has been halved, but with supply dwindling, prices might increase and entice farmers to start growing the illicit crop again. That's the word from the latest U.N....

September 29, 2010  |   Tens of thousands of protesters marched Wednesday in Brussels and trade unions planned strikes in Spain over planned austerity measures that are aimed at preventing an economic crisis in Europe, though critics say they would harm the poor. Protesters...

September 27, 2010  |   Aerial view of Abyei taken in July 2009. Photo by Peter Martell/AFP/Getty Images Abyei, a village in central Sudan that is still crawling out of its violence-ravaged past, has become one of the keys to holding a peaceful referendum...

September 27, 2010  |   Fan of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. Photo by Juan Barreto/AFP/Getty Images Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's Socialist Party won a majority of the 165-seat National Assembly in Sunday's election, but not a two-thirds majority that would have allowed it to...

September 24, 2010  |   President Obama at U.N. summit on Sudan. Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images On the heels of his speech to the U.N. General Assembly, President Obama threw his weight behind other U.N. members Friday urging Sudan to carry out its...

September 24, 2010  |   Indian laborers work in front of Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi. Photo by Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images The Commonwealth Games -- former British colonies' version of the Olympics -- begin Oct. 3 in India, but preparations have been muddled...

September 23, 2010  |   President Obama addressed the U.N. General Assembly on Thursday on a wide range of issues, including reinstating Iran's need to demonstrate the peaceful intent of its nuclear program and calling for international support of Israeli and Palestinian peace efforts. Watch...

September 21, 2010  |   Somali Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke at U.N. conference in 2009. Photo by Tony Karumba/AFP/Getty Images Somalia's Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke announced his resignation Tuesday after months of disagreement with the president and stepped up attacks...

September 20, 2010  |   Afghan workers unload ballot boxes. Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Afghans voted Saturday in their second parliamentary poll since the U.S.-led invasion in 2001. On Monday, allegations of voter intimidation and fraud began rolling in, raising serious concerns among election...

September 20, 2010  |   Sweden Democrats leader Jimmie Aakesson. Photo by Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP/Getty Images A political party in Sweden seeking a 90 percent reduction in immigration won seats in Parliament for the first time, denying the ruling center-right coalition a majority and raising...

September 17, 2010  |   In the midst of war, Afghanistan prepares for another election on Saturday, threatened by violence and the potential for fraud. Our partners at GlobalPost have correspondents in the region, including James Foley, who filed this video of a firefight between...

September 13, 2010  |   Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan casts his vote in the referendum. Photo by Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images It's a classic dilemma in Turkish politics: voters approved a referendum that the Islamist-rooted government said would make the country's government more...

September 9, 2010  |   A major conference of North Korea's ruling Workers' Party in Pyongyang has raised the expectation of a handover of power from Kim Jong Il to his youngest son. The transition appears to have been underway for months. In June, Kim...

September 8, 2010  |   Nearly 500,000 migrants flow into Dhaka, Bangladesh, each year, leaving the countryside to try to make a living in the big city. By 2025, the United Nations estimates Dhaka will grow to about 20 million, rivaling Mexico City, Beijing and...

September 4, 2010  |   During our blogging from Iraq, we've been marking the transformation of a few notable places from 2003 to now. BAGHDAD | One symbol of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's extravagances was a zoo the family kept in a palace. Though...

September 1, 2010  |   NAJAF, Iraq | The Imam Ali Mosque is considered the one of the holiest sites in Shia Islam. The NewsHour recently visited the shrine during Ramadan and watched as crowds grew throughout the evening. People gathered to pray, eat picnics...

August 31, 2010  |   BAGHDAD | On Wednesday, the U.S. military turns a corner in Iraq from a combat to an advisory mission. But do Iraqis feel safer, more than seven years after the U.S.-led war began? Many Iraqis we spoke to voiced fears...

August 26, 2010  |   The NewsHour is in Iraq reporting on the country's challenges in security, public services and politics as U.S. combat forces depart. We're also revisiting sites made famous -- or infamous -- by the war. BAGHDAD | The toppling of a...

August 23, 2010  |   <!-- _pap_embed_custom; //--><!]]> BAGHDAD | As Margaret Warner continues her series of reports from Iraq on the state of the country as the U.S. ends its official combat mission there, she's looking at the country's ongoing security problems, how well...

August 20, 2010  |   The NewsHour is traveling in Iraq for the next few weeks, covering the U.S. troop drawdown due at the end of the month and looking at what Iraq's future holds. FALLUJAH | One of the searing images of the war...

August 17, 2010  |   BAGHDAD, Iraq | Tuesday's suicide bombing at the army headquarters in Baghdad was one of the deadliest attacks in Baghdad in months, and comes as the U.S. military is preparing to turn over full control of the country's security to...

August 10, 2010  |   GlobalPost has sent reporters to Afghanistan to cover the day-to-day developments of the war in places such as the southern city of Kandahar, where the U.S. military is working to curb the Taliban's influence. We're tracking their progress through the...

August 9, 2010  |   Rwandans voted for president Monday in an election that incumbent Paul Kagame was expected to win handily. Kagame, who called the election democratic, had already begun planning his victory party before polls closed. Critics contend that heavy-handed measures kept opposition...

August 5, 2010  |   Journalists watch Naomi Campbell testifying at war crimes trial. Photo by Vincent Jannink/AFP/Getty Images British supermodel Naomi Campbell testified Thursday at the war crimes trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor that she received a small bag of "dirty-looking...

August 4, 2010  |   Kenyans line up to vote on referendum. Photo by Tony Karumba/AFP/Getty Images Kenyans voted Wednesday on a new constitution that would remove some power from the president and in turn, many hope, would reduce the likelihood of a repeat...

August 3, 2010  |   Our partners at GlobalPost have dispatched reporters to different spots in Afghanistan to report on civilian and military life. In a weekly blog post, we track their efforts. U.S. soldiers sprint to a medical facility on base in the southern...

August 3, 2010  |   Sixteen years after Rwanda's genocide, the country is still struggling with reconciliation and democracy, highlighted by upcoming presidential elections on Monday. Kira Kay of The Bureau for International Reporting recently traveled there to report on how far the country has...

August 2, 2010  |   Man surveying damage to his home in Nowshera, Pakistan. Photo by Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images Unusually severe monsoon rains and flash flooding over the weekend left hundreds of Pakistanis dead and even more homeless in the northwest Monday when dams...

July 27, 2010  |   Correspondents from our partners at GlobalPost are getting an on-the-ground look at the challenges U.S. and Afghan forces are facing and documenting their reporting in a blog called "Dispatches: Afghanistan." Each week, we'll check in with them here on the...

July 23, 2010  |   In the weeks before Colombia gets a new president, tensions between current President Alvaro Uribe and Venezuela's Hugo Chavez reached a breaking point this week when Chavez cut diplomatic ties with its neighbor over renewed accusations he is coddling Colombian...

July 21, 2010  |   A North Korean soldier looks through the window during Secretary Clinton and Secretary Gates' visit to the Demilitarized Zone. Photo by Cherie Cullen/DOD via Getty Images Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Defense Secretary Robert Gates toured the heavily...

July 20, 2010  |   Our partners at GlobalPost have a team of reporters on the ground in Afghanistan this summer, covering Afghan and U.S. military activities during this crucial point in the war. In one dispatch, Kevin Sites reports on a firefight that ensued...

July 16, 2010  |   With the number of detainees at the U.S. naval station at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, steadily shrinking, military personnel there say the release of the prisoners is having a positive impact on those who remain. The Obama administration has made it...

July 15, 2010  |   Iranian nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri holding the hand of his son. Photo by Atta Kenare/AFP/Getty Images Nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri, who claims he was abducted by the CIA a year ago, abruptly returned to his home in Iran on...

July 8, 2010  |   Somali boys wave flag of al-Shabab. Photo by Stringer/AFP/Getty Images On Wednesday's NewsHour, we heard from The New York Times' East Africa bureau chief Jeffrey Gettleman about strained conditions in Somalia, where the civil war-ravaged country's transitional government is...

July 7, 2010  |   Somalia has suffered from nearly two decades of civil war, piracy and now fighting between government forces and an Islamist rebel group called al-Shabab. For the past year or so, the transitional government received support as people viewed it as...

July 6, 2010  |   President Barack Obama and visiting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu both said Tuesday that they expected proximity talks would lead to direct Israeli-Palestinian negotiations on a secure two-state solution. Speaking to reporters at the White House, President Obama said five...

July 5, 2010  |   When one thinks of basic rights, things like voting, clean water or education might come to mind. Now, add Internet access to that list. Finland this month became the first country in the world to make high-speed Internet service a...

July 2, 2010  |   Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kostyantyn Gryshchenko. Photo by Genya Savilov/AFP/Getty Images During a five-country tour of the region, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told Ukrainian officials Friday that the door to NATO membership is...

June 30, 2010  |   Germany's new President Christian Wulff casts his ballot earlier in the day. Photo by Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images It took three rounds of voting Wednesday to elect Chancellor Angela Merkel's candidate for president, Christian Wulff, in a sign of brewing...

June 29, 2010  |   Mexican President Felipe Calderon speaks after killing of gubernatorial candidate Rodolfo Torre. Photo by Presidencia/AFP/Getty Images After Mexican gubernatorial candidate Rodolfo Torre and four others in his campaign entourage were gunned down Monday in the state of Tamaulipas, his...

June 29, 2010  |   Afghan soldiers training in Khost province, Afghanistan. Photo courtesy of Defense Department A special inspector general report issued late Monday says the rating system of Afghan security forces is not reliable and training efforts face "serious challenges." Preparing Afghan...

June 28, 2010  |   Heads of state at the G20 summit in Toronto. Photo by Eric Feferberg/AFP/Getty Images At the conclusion of the weekend's G20 summit in Canada, countries agreed to cut their deficits over the next three years in order to stabilize...

June 25, 2010  |   G20 preparations in Toronto. Photo by Jemal Countess/Getty Images Leaders of some of the world's largest economies are meeting in Canada over the weekend to focus on nurturing the global economic recovery and facilitating international security and aid. The...

June 24, 2010  |   Presidents Medvedev and Obama at Arlington eatery. Photo by Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images Russian President Dmitry Medvedev met with President Barack Obama Thursday in Washington, where the two were expected to discuss arms control, Iran and economic issues, in their...

June 24, 2010  |   U.S. Army Gen. David Petraeus visiting base in Afghanistan in October. Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images Army Gen. David Petraeus, currently head of U.S. Central Command, has been called on to lead coalition forces in Afghanistan in place of...

June 23, 2010  |   President Barack Obama announced Wednesday that he accepted Gen. Stanley McChrystal's resignation as the top commander in Afghanistan, over critical comments he made in a Rolling Stone article, and would replace him with Gen. David Petraeus, currently head of U.S....

June 21, 2010  |   Jaroslaw Kaczynski. Photo by Wojtek Radwanski/AFP/Getty Images In Poland, a presidential election held over the weekend to fill the vacancy left when the incumbent died in a plane crash in April, now heads to a runoff on July 4...

June 21, 2010  |   Juan Manuel Santos. Photo by Luis Ramirez/LatinContent/Getty Images Colombia's former defense minister Juan Manuel Santos handily won the country's top office in a run-off presidential election on Sunday, promising to continue a security campaign against leftist rebels and to...

June 18, 2010  |   Although the raging violence between ethnic Kyrgyz and Uzbeks in southern Kyrgyzstan has abated, the hardened feelings and destroyed neighborhoods remain, says Clifford Levy of The New York Times, reporting from the city of Osh. "Block after block after block...

June 16, 2010  |   Post-violence damage in Shark, a village outside Osh in Kyrgyzstan. Photo by Viktor Drachev/AFP/Getty Images The Kyrgyzstan government and army attempted to stabilize the southern city of Osh on Wednesday, after fighting between Kyrgyz and Uzbeks over the past...

June 15, 2010  |   The PBS documentary "The New Recruits" follows three young business students to India, Pakistan and Kenya as they try to apply the concept of social enterprise as an alternative to charity where the poor pay a nominal amount for services...

June 11, 2010  |   The government of Kyrgyzstan declared a state of emergency Friday in its second largest city Osh after ethnic fighting there killed at least 37 people and injured more than 500. The Central Asian country underwent political upheaval in April, when...

June 10, 2010  |   Party for Freedom leader Geert Wilders. Photo by Robin Utrecht/AFP/Getty Images Elections in the Netherlands on Wednesday showed significant growth in support for a far-right politician, who has taken a strong stance on immigration, and a pro-business party that...

June 9, 2010  |   The U.N. Security Council approved a new round of sanctions targeting Iran's nuclear program on Wednesday, sending an "unmistakable message" that Tehran must fulfill its obligations under the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty , President Obama said after the vote. The resolution...

June 8, 2010  |   The brother-in-law of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il was promoted to a top leadership role in the country, in a move viewed by some analysts as clearing the way for the succession of Kim's third son. On Monday, the...

June 7, 2010  |   South African soccer fans. Photo by Jung Yeon-Je/AFP/Getty Images The 2010 FIFA World Cup soccer tournament officially kicks off Friday when Mexico plays host country South Africa. We've compiled some of our favorite World Cup-related blogs, Web sites and...

June 7, 2010  |   A court in India has convicted seven former executives of a Union Carbide subsidiary of "causing death by negligence" for a gas leak at a company plant that killed an estimated 15,000 people in the 1980s. The seven men, some...

June 4, 2010  |   Afghan peace jirga. Photo by Massoud Hossaini/AFP/Getty Images More than 1,500 tribal elders, business and religious leaders and other members of Afghan society -- assembled in the capital for a three-day peace "jirga" or conference -- on Friday endorsed...

June 2, 2010  |   Photo of Yukio Hatoyama by Yoshikazu Tsuno - Pool/Getty Images Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama quit Wednesday after eight months in office, amid a campaign-funding scandal and backlash from his decision not to relocate a U.S. Marine air base...

June 2, 2010  |   Damaged and destroyed homes in Port-au-Prince. Photo by Thony Belizaire/AFP/Getty Images As Haiti continues to rebuild more than four months after a devastating earthquake killed 200,000 people and wiped out much of the capital city, the country still faces...

June 1, 2010  |   As fallout continued Tuesday from the Israeli raid on Turkish-flagged ships bound for Gaza, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. Gabriela Shalev gave the NewsHour their takes. "According to the law, the ship in international...

May 31, 2010  |   Juan Manuel Santos of the ruling National Unity Party. Photo by Eitan Abramovich/AFP/Getty Images In what was originally considered a closely contested race for president in Colombia, former defense minister Juan Manuel Santos ended up taking a comfortable lead...

May 31, 2010  |   Chairman of the Czech Civic Democratic Party Petr Necas. Photo by Antonin Korinek/AFP/Getty Images Concerns over the economic crisis in Greece helped give a leg up to conservative parties in the Czech Republic's parliamentary elections over the weekend. The...

May 28, 2010  |   The 189 nations participating in a month-long conference to review the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty agreed on the final day Friday to work toward a nuclear weapon-free zone in the Middle East. The 28-page final document calls for holding a conference...

May 28, 2010  |   Pakistani police in Lahore help an injured colleague. Photo by Arif Ali/AFP/Getty Images Gunmen and suicide bombers attacked two mosques filled with Ahmadi worshipers in Lahore, Pakistan, on Friday, killing at least 80 people, taking hostages and engaging in...

May 27, 2010  |   Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir was sworn in Thursday to another five-year term, pledging the country would not return to war and that a referendum vote on the south splitting from the north would proceed next year as planned. Bashir...

May 26, 2010  |   Space Shuttle Atlantis lands at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Photo Courtesy of NASA The space shuttle Atlantis glided to a landing with six astronauts aboard at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, capping the orbiter's 25-year...

May 26, 2010  |   Tourists looking across the Demilitarized Zone to North Korea. Photo by Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images As fallout continues over South Korea blaming North Korea for sinking one of its navy ships in March, the two countries are planning to revisit...

May 25, 2010  |   Police patrols in Kingston, Jamaica. Photo by Anthony Foster/AFP/Getty Images Clashes in Jamaica continued for a third day Tuesday between security forces and masked gunmen loyal to a Jamaican gang leader sought by U.S. authorities. At least 30 people...

May 25, 2010  |   In Cambodia, several former leaders of the Khmer Rouge are on trial for the detention and killing of thousands of Cambodians during the 1970s. The first verdict -- for prison chief Kaing Guek Eav, also known as Duch -- is...

May 25, 2010  |   Pro-government rally in Ethiopia. Photo by Simon Maina/AFP/Getty Images A sweeping win by Ethiopia's ruling party in Sunday's parliamentary elections was clouded by allegations of irregularities by opposition parties and international organizations. On Tuesday, the country's electoral board declared...

May 24, 2010  |   Japan's Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama said Monday he has given up on efforts to find an alternative location for a controversial U.S. airbase on the island of Okinawa, and that tensions on the Korean peninsula helped him reach his decision....

May 21, 2010  |   During a visit to Washington this week, former Afghan foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah spoke with Margaret Warner about U.S. efforts in Afghanistan, the security situation and upcoming jirga aimed at bringing former Taliban fighters back into the fold. You can...

May 20, 2010  |   NPR's Steve Inskeep traveled with other correspondents to Pakistan and India to file a series of reports for Morning Edition, called "Along the Grand Trunk Road". He spoke with Kwame Holman from Islamabad about the young people he met, their...

May 20, 2010  |   South Korean Navy Rear Adm. Park Jung-Soo in front of Cheonan wreckage. Photo by Song Kyung-Seok-Pool/Getty Images South Korea on Thursday released the results of a multinational investigation that point to North Korea's use of a torpedo in sinking...

May 19, 2010  |   Mexico's President Felipe Calderon and President Barack Obama at the White House. Photo by Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images Mexican President Felipe Calderon began a visit to Washington, D.C., Wednesday to discuss a range of issues with President Barack Obama, including...

May 18, 2010  |   Bombing aftermath in Kabul, Afghanistan. Photo by Getty Images The Taliban took responsibility for a suicide attack on a NATO convoy in Kabul on Tuesday that killed 18 people, including five American service members and one from Canada. A...

May 14, 2010  |   The botched car bombing in New York's Times Square, and possible links to militants in Pakistan, has brought renewed attention to the group known as Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan. Pakistani-American Faisal Shahzad was arrested last week on allegations he packed a car...

May 13, 2010  |   U.S. Commander in Afghanistan Gen. Stanley McChrystal said that although progress is being made in Afghanistan, "nobody is winning at this point," in an interview airing Thursday on the NewsHour. "I think that in the last year, we've made a...

May 12, 2010  |   After months of public discord, President Barack Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai reaffirmed their countries' strong ties and commitment to a secure and stable Afghanistan at a joint White House press conference Wednesday. "We are much more strongly related...

May 12, 2010  |   Colombia's Antanas Mockus. Photo by Luis Robayo/AFP/Getty Images Colombia's presidential election on May 30 is developing into an unexpectedly tight race between a Green Party candidate who represents a new face and anti-corruption efforts, and a former defense minister...

May 11, 2010  |   Now that European leaders have agreed to a 750 billion euro relief plan to stem Europe's debt crisis, steps are being taken to make the money available to eurozone countries in need of the help -- and...

May 10, 2010  |   Afghan President Hamid Karzai. Photo by AFP/Getty Images The July 2011 deadline President Barack Obama set to start withdrawing U.S. forces from Afghanistan serves as the backdrop and lends some urgency to Afghan President Hamid Karzai's meetings in Washington,...

May 7, 2010  |   Conservatives' David Cameron and his wife Samantha. Photo by Kirsty Wigglesworth/AFP/Getty Images Updated 6:50 a.m. The Conservatives secured more seats than the ruling Labor party in the United Kingdom's closely fought elections, results showed Friday, but not enough to...

May 6, 2010  |   Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Photo by Mohammed Sawaf/AFP/Getty Images Since March 7 elections handed the ruling government a narrow defeat, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has announced a new Shiite coalition that gives it more seats than the secular...

May 5, 2010  |   Conservatives' David Cameron campaigning in Britain. Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images Britain's major party leaders spent the final hours leading up to Thursday's general elections campaigning for the support of an estimated 4 million undecided voters. Gordon Brown of...

May 4, 2010  |   Protesters listen to speeches inside encampment in Bangkok. Photo by Hoang Dinh Nam/AFP/Getty Images Thailand's Red Shirt protesters on Tuesday cautiously welcomed the government's proposal to hold early elections on Nov. 14 in exchange for the protesters leaving their...

May 3, 2010  |   Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images Updated 5:15 p.m. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, speaking Monday at a U.N. conference on the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty, called for a world free of nuclear weapons. U.S. Secretary of...

April 30, 2010  |   Woman wearing a niqab in Brussels. Photo by Julien Warnand/AFP/Getty Images Belgium is heading toward becoming the first European country to ban women from wearing burqas in public after its Parliament voted Thursday to ban the Muslim full-face veil....

April 30, 2010  |   This week marks 35 years since the end of the conflict in Vietnam. Throughout the week, we've talked to authors, a photographer who covered the war, and Vietnamese-Americans who recently returned to their country of birth. Andrew Lam, an editor...

April 28, 2010  |   Protesters in Thailand leave their downtown Bangkok encampment. Photo by Roslan Rahman/AFP/Getty Images Anti-government protesters in Thailand trying to dismantle a military blockade on the outskirts of Bangkok clashed with security forces Wednesday. One soldier was killed -- apparently...

April 27, 2010  |   NewsHour special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro recently reported from Vietnam on the stories of several Vietnamese-Americans, who returned to their country of birth, and what they found once they got there: Software entrepreneur Victor Luu was welcomed with tax...

April 26, 2010  |   President Omar al-Bashir. Photo by Ashraf Shazly/AFP/Getty Images Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir won re-election, according to official results released Monday, in elections held earlier in the month that independent monitors said fell short of international standards. More than 10...

April 23, 2010  |   Bombing aftermath in Sadr City in Baghdad. Photo by Ahmad al-Rubaye/AFP/Getty Images A series of apparently coordinated explosions near Shiite mosques and the offices of anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr killed at least 60 people and wounded more than 150...

April 22, 2010  |   Countries around the world celebrated the 40th Earth Day on Thursday and throughout the week with activities such as fashion shows featuring recycled materials, seed plantings at the Shanghai Zoo and musicians in Morocco playing songs about the Earth....

April 21, 2010  |   The Pentagon's forthcoming warplane, the Joint Strike Fighter, is intended for use across the different branches of the military but has come under fire in Congress for skyrocketing costs and delays. Skeptics and defenders of the aircraft, which will be...

April 19, 2010  |   U.S. and Iraqi forces killed two al-Qaida in Iraq leaders in a nighttime rocket attack, officials said Monday, in what has been called a significant blow to the terrorist group. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki told reporters in Baghdad...

April 16, 2010  |   The Icelandic volcano, located under a glacier, is spewing water vapor and fine-grained ash that can be damaging to aircraft engines. Derrick Ryall of the British Meteorological Office explains the challenges of measuring the size of the plume, where it...

April 16, 2010  |   Interim government officials in Kyrgyzstan confirmed Friday that they had received President Kurmanbek Bakiyev's resignation before he fled to neighboring Kazakhstan with his wife and two young children. Bakiyev's departure, which was coordinated by Russia, the United States and...

April 15, 2010  |   A five-day voting period in Sudan ended Thursday, and ballot-counting was set to begin, in national elections considered an important step for the country's democracy but marred by allegations of fraud and opposition party boycotts. The presidential, parliamentary and...

April 15, 2010  |   Britain's three main candidates for prime minister are meeting in their first televised debate Thursday, ahead of what has turned into a highly contested national election on May 6. The 90-minute debate, featuring the Labor Party's Prime Minister Gordon...

April 14, 2010  |   Western China, where a 6.9-magnitude earthquake struck Wednesday, is home to one of the most active systems of fault lines in the world, according to U.S. Geological Survey seismologist Walter Mooney. A series of temblors shook the sparsely populated area...

April 13, 2010  |   Leaders of 47 countries attending the nuclear security summit in Washington, D.C., agreed Tuesday that responsibility for keeping nuclear materials from getting into the hands of terrorist groups lies with all nations. The final communique, released at the end of...

April 9, 2010  |   Protesters in Bangkok, defying a state of emergency decree, broke into a satellite relay station on Friday in the latest move in their month-long anti-government demonstrations. The Thai "red shirt" protesters, who are mainly from the countryside and support ousted...

April 7, 2010  |   Thousands of protesters stormed government buildings and clashed with police in Kyrgyzstan's capital Bishkek on Wednesday, with more than a dozen people reported dead. Tensions have been running high in the Central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan for years --...

April 6, 2010  |   The Obama administration released Tuesday a new set of guidelines for nuclear weapons, including not threatening their use against signatories of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in an effort to encourage other countries' adherence to the treaty. The Pentagon issued...

April 1, 2010  |   This week, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan proposed a set of constitutional changes that the government says would promote democracy and bolster its bid for membership in the European Union, but critics say would shrink the independence of...

March 31, 2010  |   Representatives of 130 countries met Wednesday in New York to pledge support and funding for Haiti's vast rebuilding effort following its devastating January earthquake. Haiti is seeking $3.8 billion over the next 18 months as the first step in...

March 30, 2010  |   On the eve of a major donors conference for Haiti in New York, Frontline correspondent Martin Smith checked in with us to discuss the chaos of the immediate aftermath of the Jan. 12 earthquake and the challenges that lie ahead....

March 29, 2010  |   Recent arrests of outspoken critics of the Venezuelan government have revived the debate over whether President Hugo Chavez is using heavy-handed techniques to silence government opponents or enforcing the country's laws against the spread of false information. On March 22,...

March 28, 2010  |   President Barack Obama on Sunday made an unannounced visit to Afghanistan -- the first of his presidency -- to discuss anti-corruption measures in the Karzai government and visit with U.S. military leaders and troops. During his visit to the...

March 26, 2010  |   A European Union financial safety net for Greece approved late Thursday contains potential bilateral loans from eurozone countries and assistance from the International Monetary Fund. "Germany in particular was one country that favored the IMF helping out, whereas a...

March 26, 2010  |   President Barack Obama announced Friday that after a year of "intense negotiations" with Russia, he and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev have agreed to reduce nuclear weapon stockpiles by a third. The two presidents plan to sign the new Strategic...

March 25, 2010  |   Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu departed Washington, D.C., Thursday without coming to an agreement with the Obama administration on the matter of expanding Jewish settlements in east Jerusalem. A March 9 announcement of the plan to build 1,600 new apartments...

March 22, 2010  |   In a surprising turn of events, four employees of British-Australian mining firm Rio Tinto pleaded guilty Monday to taking bribes during annual negotiations over iron ore prices in China, according to lawyers and an Australian diplomat. Australian national Stern...

March 18, 2010  |   The people of Sudan have two important votes approaching: national elections next month in which they will decide whether President Omar al-Bashir should stay or go, and a referendum in early 2011 in which the south will choose whether...

March 18, 2010  |   Thai government protesters, who call themselves "Red Shirts," rallied Thursday for a fifth straight day in Bangkok, after dousing the prime minister's residence gates with their own blood as a symbol of their discontent. The protesters back former Premier...

March 8, 2010  |   U.S. military fatalities in the eight-year Afghan war have swelled over the past few years. When taking into account worldwide military operations in Operation Enduring Freedom, U.S. deaths have passed the 1,000 mark, according to the Department of Defense, The...

March 1, 2010  |   Following the massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake in Chile, rescuers were burrowing through wrecked buildings to find survivors on Monday. Much of the damage was along the southern coastline, where the quake and subsequent tsunamis dealt a double blow. The New York...

March 1, 2010  |   The night of Chile's massive earthquake, Pascale Bonnefoy, GlobalPost correspondent in Santiago, had just returned home from vacation and gone to bed when she awoke to a house "jumping up and down." "We were on the second floor just...

February 26, 2010  |   As major military operations wrap up in Marjah, Afghanistan, U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Ben Hodges of the Southern Region Command in Kandahar talked to Judy Woodruff on Friday's NewsHour about the military's shift in focus to the eastern part of...

February 26, 2010  |   Thailand's Supreme Court ruled Friday to strip former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra of $1.4 billion of his $2.29 billion in frozen assets, saying much of his financial gain came from a misuse of power. The nine justices said Thaksin...

February 25, 2010  |   Viktor Yanukovych was sworn in as Ukraine's president Thursday, after a Feb. 7 runoff that is still contested by Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, and promised to move the country forward on an innovative path. "Ukraine needs a strategy of...

February 23, 2010  |   Prosecutors in Turkey questioned Tuesday at least 40 people including retired and active duty military commanders detained as part of a sweeping investigation into an alleged plot to overthrow the government. The suspects included former Air Force chief Gen. Ibrahim...

February 19, 2010  |   U.S. Marines fought and captured a closely guarded compound in the southern Afghanistan town of Marjah Friday, and discovered inside dozens of Taliban identification cards, photos of fighters posing with weapons and diplomas from an insurgent training camp in...

February 18, 2010  |   After his meeting with President Barack Obama, the Dalai Lama told reporters Thursday outside the White House that the two leaders discussed promoting peace, humanitarian values, religious harmony and the need for more women in leadership roles. The exiled Tibetan...

February 18, 2010  |   Over the past few weeks there have been a number of headline grabbing dust-ups in U.S.-China relations: the cyber-attacks on Google; China's reaction to U.S. arms sales to Taiwan; President Barack Obama's meeting with the Dalai Lama; disagreements over...

February 16, 2010  |   Kate Starbird, a graduate student at the University of Colorado at Boulder, studies the use of Twitter during crises. When she and the other UC researchers heard about the massive earthquake in Haiti on Jan. 12, all they could do...

February 16, 2010  |   A joint CIA-Pakistan operation has captured Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban's No. 2 leader behind Afghan Taliban founder Mullah Mohammad Omar, reports said Tuesday. Seth Jones, a senior political analyst at the RAND Corporation, discusses its significance. Jones was...

February 15, 2010  |   Firefights erupted in the southern Afghan town of Marjah on Monday, where Marines and Afghan forces are battling insurgents as part of an offensive for a third straight day. About 15,000 Afghan and foreign soldiers, led by U.S. Marines,...

February 12, 2010  |   Preventing the spread of disease in Haiti's quake-damaged cities, where thousands have taken refuge in temporary camps, is a formidable task in a country that already posed sanitation challenges. William Fellows, UNICEF's global water, sanitation and hygiene coordinator, explains...

February 11, 2010  |   Flag-waving crowds rallied in central Tehran on Thursday to celebrate the 31st anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, which also prompted spin-off government protests that security forces worked to disperse. Tens of thousands of Iranians took to the...

February 10, 2010  |   As U.S. drones continue to target al-Qaida allied militants in Pakistan, and international forces seek to stamp out Taliban strongholds in Afghanistan, U.S. and Afghan officials are trying to develop ways to engage moderate elements of the Taliban to...

February 10, 2010  |   For weeks following the Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti, a steady stream of airplanes stuffed with medical and other relief supplies shuttled in and out of the Port-au-Prince airport. Adhering to a strict time frame, the workers had just...

February 8, 2010  |   Iran told the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency Monday that it would begin enriching its stockpile of uranium to 20 percent purity for a medical reactor, renewing calls from U.S., Russian and French officials for a tougher approach and unified...

February 8, 2010  |   With almost all of the votes tallied, opposition candidate Viktor Yanukovych claimed a victory over Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko by a slim margin in Sunday's presidential runoff in Ukraine, although Tymoshenko refused to concede defeat by Monday evening local...

February 5, 2010  |   Kathie Klarreich, a freelance writer who also worked as a fixer/producer for the NewsHour in Haiti, sent us the story of one child's rescue from the earthquake rubble, her transfer to the United States for medical treatment, and her...

February 4, 2010  |   Although the debate is a heated one in the United States, our partners at GlobalPost have found that gays serving in the military is not as big of an issue overseas. As part of the Planet Rainbow series, which looks...

February 3, 2010  |   As part of the NewsHour's recent reporting trip to Haiti, the country's Minister of Tourism Patrick Delatour, who also heads the reconstruction commission, spoke with Ray Suarez about the government's reaction to the quake and the outpouring of international aid:...

February 1, 2010  |   The seaside town of Jacmel was badly damaged by the earthquake that struck Haiti on Jan. 12. Soon after, however, micro-enterprises popped up and rebuilding began in the shattered town, reports American Red Cross volunteer Winnie Romeril. View the...

January 28, 2010  |   Afghan President Hamid Karzai announced Thursday at a donors conference in London a plan to reward Taliban members who agree to renounce violence with jobs and other help with reintegrating into society. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressed...

January 22, 2010  |   Haiti's government said Friday that some 400,000 survivors of the Jan. 12 earthquake would be relocated to cleaner tent villages outside Port-au-Prince to prevent disease in the current makeshift camps. The Pan American Health Organization, the regional branch of...

January 20, 2010  |   As relief efforts continue to build in earthquake-ravaged Haiti, a 6.1-magnitude aftershock hit the country Wednesday morning, knocking debris from buildings and sending people scrambling for open ground. The aftershock was the largest of more than 40 to rattle...

January 18, 2010  |   Chileans voted Sunday for billionaire Sebastian Pinera to become the first right-wing elected president since 1958. Pinera was declared the victor against the government candidate, former president Eduardo Frei of the center-left coalition Concertacion. Outgoing President Michelle Bachelet, who...

January 18, 2010  |   Ukraine's President Viktor Yushchenko, who gained power during the Orange Revolution in 2004, is out of the running in a run-off election now scheduled for Feb. 7. Opposition candidate Viktor Yanukovych and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko will compete for the...

January 17, 2010  |   Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were still waiting desperately for aid Sunday, while rescue workers continued to pull people from collapsed buildings five days after an earthquake ravaged Port-au-Prince. World leaders vowed to help the impoverished nation rebuild. Three...

January 16, 2010  |   As supplies continued to stack up at Haiti's airport Saturday, aid workers and officials pushed to get the much-needed provisions to the masses of earthquake survivors in and around the capital Port-au-Prince. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who...

January 15, 2010  |   Haiti's earthquake was "a catastrophe of monumental proportions," said Nick Birnback, spokesman for the U.N. Department of Peacekeeping Operations. The Caribbean nation was still mending from a series of major storms in 2008 and deep-seated political problems when the quake...

January 12, 2010  |   An Iranian nuclear physics professor was killed Tuesday when a remote-controlled bomb attached to a motorcycle outside of his home in northern Tehran exploded. He reportedly backed opposition candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi in Iran's June presidential elections. Iranian state media...

January 7, 2010  |   Al-Qaida claimed responsibility on Thursday for last month's attack on a base in Khost, Afghanistan, that killed seven CIA agents. According to Islamist Web sites, the attack was "revenge" for U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan. Al-Qaida's head in Afghanistan, Mustafa...

January 5, 2010  |   The U.N. World Food Program announced Tuesday that it is suspending its work in portions of southern Somalia because of threats to its staff and "unacceptable demands" by armed groups....

January 5, 2010  |   Afghan President Hamid Karzai is expected to present parliament with new Cabinet nominees on Saturday, a week after the legislative body vetoed 17 of his 24 picks for the country's top ministerial posts....

January 4, 2010  |   Yemeni government forces killed two suspected al-Qaida militants on Monday, as U.S. and other embassies remained closed for a second day due to renewed threats by an offshoot terrorist group there....

January 1, 2010  |   The United States is heading into a deeper war in Afghanistan/Pakistan and toward a confrontation with Iran, two stories that will likely top the international news agenda for the NewsHour in 2010....

January 1, 2010  |   A suicide bomber drove an explosives-laden car onto a volleyball field in northwest Pakistan on Friday, triggering a blast that killed at least 75 people and wounded dozens more, media outlets reported....

December 31, 2009  |   Five American men arrested in Sargodha, Pakistan, in early December face terrorism charges and possible life imprisonment for allegedly trying to train with a militant group linked to al-Qaida, Pakistani police said Thursday....

December 31, 2009  |   CIA Director Leon Panetta said Thursday that seven employees were killed and six others wounded when a suicide bomber detonated a vest of explosives at Forward Operating Base Chapman in eastern Afghanistan. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack....

December 30, 2009  |   When author Kati Marton started digging into the files that the Hungarian secret police kept on her parents, who worked as journalists in Cold War Budapest, she discovered the extent to which the people around them in the 1940s and...

December 23, 2009  |   Last week, a Mexican sailor, Melquisedet Angulo, died in a raid that killed a drug kingpin. This week, hit men shot dead the sailor's mother, siblings and aunt in an apparent revenge killing....

December 23, 2009  |   Opposition protests and a smattering of anti-government counter-demonstrations continued in Iran on Wednesday, three days after the death of the country's most senior dissident cleric, Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri. Memorial ceremonies for the cleric led to pro-opposition protests in...

December 21, 2009  |   Iranians amassed in Qom on Monday to mourn the loss of dissident cleric, Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, considered the spiritual voice of the opposition movement. Montazeri had declared the re-election of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in June as fraudulent...

December 17, 2009  |   A day after Pakistan's Supreme Court overturned an amnesty law for thousands of politicians, including President Asif Ali Zardari, opposition groups renewed pressure on the president to resign. The National Reconciliation Ordinance -- implemented by former President Pervez Musharraf in...

December 15, 2009  |   The Mexican government's stepped-up efforts to clamp down on the drug trade are causing drug-related violence to explode in the country. Ioan Grillo of GlobalPost accompanied the Mexican army on some of its drug-fighting operations and describes them here. Grillo...

December 11, 2009  |   A majority of the Swiss people voted Nov. 29 to block the construction of minarets, tall spires typically associated with Islamic mosques. The move raised questions about Switzerland's historic tolerance and prompted criticism from some in the international community. The...

December 9, 2009  |   A Chicago man pleaded not guilty Wednesday to assisting with last year's terrorist attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai and plotting an armed assault on a Danish newspaper that printed cartoons of the Muslim Prophet Muhammad. David Coleman Headley,...

December 4, 2009  |   On tonight's NewsHour, Margaret Warner interviews Secretary of State Hillary Clinton from Brussels, where 25 NATO allies agreed to send about 7,000 more troops to Afghanistan. In an interview taped earlier today, Clinton said it wasn't a hard sell once...