World Sep 20 Afghanistan Analyst: Election Marks an Achievement, But Complaints Pile Up 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 observers.
World Sep 20 Sweden’s Anti-Immigration Party Gains Toehold in Parliament 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 questions about anti-Muslim sentiment in the country.
World Sep 17 Inside a Firefight in Afghanistan’s North 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…
World Sep 13 In Turkey, Constitutional Changes Do Little to Mend Divisions 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 modern and democratic, but that opponents said would give the ruling party autocratic powers. And Turkish columnists have…
World Sep 09 Kim Jong Un: Potential Successor in North Korea, but Who Is He? 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.
World Sep 08 Rise of a Megacity: Bangladesh’s Dhaka Sees Population Boom 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…
World Sep 04 Iraq Dispatch: Saddam’s Lion Cubs All Grown Up BAGHDAD | One symbol of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's extravagances was a zoo the family kept in a palace. Though the palace grounds were badly damaged during the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, the three lions survived -- discovered by coalition…
World Sep 01 Najaf Dispatch: Inside the Imam Ali Shrine 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.
World Aug 31 Troop Drawdown: 5 Voices From Iraq on the Security Switch 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?…
World Aug 26 Then and Now: What Replaced the Toppled Saddam Statue? BAGHDAD | The toppling of a statue of Saddam Hussein, marking the fall of Baghdad to U.S.-led coalition forces, did not escape controversy when a U.S. Marine temporarily draped an American flag over the statue's head and an Army report…