World Mar 16 Six Dead in Fresh Bahrain Clashes Six people died Wednesday in a fresh round of clashes in the Persian Gulf island nation of Bahrain. Soldiers and riot police used tanks and tear gas to clear protesters out of Pearl Square in the capital, Manama. Troops…
World Mar 16 Pakistani Court Acquits CIA Contractor of Murders A Pakistani court in Lahore has acquitted CIA contractor Raymond Davis of murder. Davis was held after he shot and killed two Pakistanis he said were trying to rob him. A third died after being struck by a vehicle rushing…
World Mar 16 Explosion, Fire at Nuclear Plant Trigger Radiation Fears in Quake’s Aftermath 8:20 a.m. ET Damage to the second reactor is shown at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in this image released by Digital Globe. Click to view larger. 6:15 p.m. ET Another fire has broken out at the Fukushima…
World Mar 15 Libyan Rebels Scramble as Gadhafi’s Forces Assault Strongholds A Libyan rebel drives his tank to the frontline in Ajdabiya on March 14. (Patrick Baz/AFP/Getty Images) Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi called on opposition forces to surrender as his troops surrounded Ajdabiya, forcing a hasty retreat for rebels and threatening…
World Mar 14 Third Blast Rocks Japan Nuclear Plant; Death Toll Rises as Bodies Wash Ashore Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear facility on March 14. Photo via DigitalGlobe. 10:30 p.m. ET The nuclear crisis in Japan escalated Tuesday after an explosion at an earthquake-hit nuclear power plant damaged a reactor's containment vessel, raising the danger…
Nation Mar 14 Watching PBS NewsHour Video Online: What’s Changed? You may have noticed some changes in recent weeks to the way videos are being posted on the PBS NewsHour website.We're in the midst of a transition with as we move to the PBS Video player, which houses online…
World Mar 14 Gadhafi Forces Launch Fresh Airstrikes, Fierce Fighting in Brega 2:15 p.m. ET | As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met in Paris with Group of Eight foreign ministers, France and Britain called again for increasing pressure on Libya's Moammar Gadhafi and a no-fly zone over the country. British Prime…
World Mar 13 Death Toll Climbs in Japan as Nuclear Threat Grows People evacuate by boat down a road flooded by tsunami waves in the Japanese city of Ishinomaki in Miyagi prefecture on Saturday, a day after a massive quake and tsunami hit the region. Photo by Jiji Press/AFP/Getty Images The death…
World Mar 12 Explosion Rocks Japanese Nuclear Power Plant in Quake’s Aftermath Updated 4:15 p.m. ET | In a last-ditch effort to avert a nuclear meltdown, officials in Japan flooded a nuclear reactor with seawater on Saturday, the New York Times reported. Japan's chief cabinet secretary, Yukio Edano, said Tokyo Electric…
Politics Mar 11 In News Conference, Obama Addresses Disaster in Japan, Oil Prices, Libya In a news conference Friday afternoon, President Obama called the earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Japan a "catastrophic disaster," adding that images of the aftermath have been "heartbreaking." The president said he spoke with Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan early…