World Jun 25 NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on Trump, Ukraine and new spending commitments To talk about President Trump, Ukraine and NATO’s new spending commitments, Nick Schifrin sat down with Secretary General Mark Rutte.
World Jun 24 Fragile Israel-Iran ceasefire holds as Trump lashes out at both sides President Trump is in the Netherlands for the NATO summit as the ceasefire between Iran and Israel is holding. Israel described enormous damage to Iran’s nuclear program. But PBS News Hour learned an initial U.S. assessment of the damage caused…
World Jun 10 Daughter of American killed in Syria describes the fight to find his remains Majd Kamalmaz was one of half a dozen Americans detained and killed in Syria by Bashar al-Assad's regime. In 2017, he traveled to Damascus to pay respects after his father-in-law's death but was detained and died in prison. Maryam Kamalmaz…
World Jun 03 More than 2 dozen killed as Gazans again face gunfire outside humanitarian aid site It's designed to deliver food to the most desperate, but for the third time in three days, Gazans faced gunfire outside a new humanitarian aid site. It comes as half a million Gazans are extremely food insecure and on the…
World Jun 02 As delegations meet for ceasefire talks, Russia reels from Ukrainian drone attacks Ukraine launched an unprecedented attack that sent drones deep inside Russia to target bombers. Russia’s strikes also accelerated as it launched the largest drone salvo of the war. One attack killed more than a dozen soldiers, leading to the resignation…
World May 29 How Israel is responding to latest U.S. proposals to pause war in Gaza Israel said it accepted a new draft of a U.S. peace plan in Gaza, but Hamas so far has not provided an official reply. The deal would pause the war for 60 days, but not permanently end it, as Hamas…
Nation May 28 Why the U.S. is pausing all student visa interviews The U.S. is pausing new student and exchange visitor visa interviews while it looks to expand screening of applicants' social media posts, according to a State Department cable obtained by the News Hour. It's part of a crackdown on immigration…
World May 27 New U.S.-backed aid distribution system in Gaza quickly overwhelmed The new aid distribution system in Gaza was quickly overwhelmed by Palestinians who for 11 weeks have been blocked from assistance. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, backed by the U.S. and Israel, says the old UN-led system allowed Hamas to flourish.
World May 23 ‘We’re playing into Russia’s hands’: Ex-U.S. ambassador to Ukraine on why she resigned This week's prisoner exchange between Russia and Ukraine was the largest since the war’s onset. But skepticism of a lasting truce, and President Trump’s peace-making, remains. Bridget Brink resigned as ambassador to Ukraine in April, faulting the Trump administration’s Ukraine…
World May 16 Russia-Ukraine peace talks fall flat with few signs of progress In highly anticipated peace talks, Russian and Ukrainian officials agreed to exchange 1,000 prisoners, the war’s largest swap. While they agreed to keep talking, there was no breakthrough for peace and the two sides seemed even further apart. Nick Schifrin…