Visit Your Local PBS Station PBS Home PBS Home Programs A-Z TV Schedules Watch Video Support PBS Shop PBS Search PBS
  • Home
  • World Links: Nasrallah Concedes Defeat in Lebanon, Brown Urged to Step Down in the U.K.

June 8th, 2009

World Links: Nasrallah Concedes Defeat in Lebanon, Brown Urged to Step Down in the U.K.

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah concedes defeat to the Western-leaning March 14 coalition in yesterday’s highly-contested elections in Lebanon.

American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee are sentenced to 12 years of hard labor for “hostile acts” after the pair allegedly entered North Korean territory illegally while reporting a story about North Korean refugees in China.

Center-right parties score a decisive win in European Union parliamentary elections. The results contribute to calls for the resignation of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, whose Labour party came third place behind the small, anti-European integration U.K. Independence Party.

Africa’s longest-serving leader, Gabon’s President Omar Bongo, dies at 73.

A judge in Northern Ireland awards 2.5 million dollars to the families of 29 people killed in the 1998 Omagh bombing. Four leaders of the Real IRA are found liable for the bombing, the biggest single atrocity in decades of “The Troubles” in Northern Ireland.

Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,

   Print    Email    comments (0)

(2 votes)
Loading ... Loading ...
post a comment
Please note that the THIRTEEN editorial staff reserves the right to not post comments it deems to be inappropriate and/or malicious in nature, as well as edit comments for length, clarity and fairness. No solicitations or advertisements will be allowed. Users may link to other Web sites relevant to discussion, but most often links to commercial Web sites will not be permitted.

Produced by THIRTEEN    ©2009 WNET.ORG Properties LLC. All rights reserved.

Sponsored by Mutual of America

Funding for Wide Angle is provided by PBS, Ford Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Foundation, Judy and Josh Weston, the Estates of Helen and Sam Roseman, Bernard and Irene Schwartz, The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation, and the Dr. Robert C. and Tina Sohn Foundation. Corporate support is provided by Mutual of America Life Insurance Company. Special funding for Time for School 3 is provided by Ida C. Schwartz, in memory of Bernard S. Schwartz; Carnegie Corporation of New York; and Paul P. Tanico. Additional funding for educational materials is provided by The Overbrook Foundation.