World Sep 26 Saudi Arabia: Women Can Vote, Starting in 2015 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 some women's rights advocates are not satisfied.
World Sep 26 World Week Ahead: U.N. Discusses Palestinians’ Bid; Gadhafi’s Hometown Under Siege 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 in Yemen after President Ali Abdullah Saleh's return.
World Sep 23 Abbas: ‘Palestine Is Waiting to Be Born’; Netanyahu: ‘Israel Wants Peace’ Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas submitted a formal request for U.N. membership Friday, saying negotiations with Israel had repeatedly broken down without results.
World Sep 21 Obama: Israelis, Palestinians ‘Must Reach Agreement on the Issues that Divide Them’ 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 process and urged the resumption of direct negotiations.
World Sep 20 USAID Chief: Somalia Must ‘Stop Standing in the Way’ of Aid NEW YORK CITY | The U.S. Agency for International Development announced a new website initiative called "Forward" this week aimed at giving viewers a better sense of the scope of the famine in the Horn of Africa -- its worst…
World Sep 16 Graffiti of Tahrir Square Messages of hope and relief line the walls of Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt.
World Sep 13 Guatemala’s Presidential Race Heats Up Heading Into Runoff 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 Sunday, which will now go to a runoff.
World Sep 12 Warner Recounts Narrow Escape From Mob Scene at Israeli Embassy in Cairo Long-simmering tensions between Israel and Egypt boiled over Friday when an angry mob stormed the building housing the Israeli Embassy in Cairo. When a PBS NewsHour team tried to film the burned vehicles and other wreckage the next day, they…
World Sep 09 In Russia, Airplane Crash Renews Focus on Airline Safety 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 of recent airline accidents.
Nation Sep 07 Brennan: U.S. Is ‘Without a Doubt’ Safer Than on 9/11 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.