Mar 29 Security Council Calls for Iran to Stop Uranium Enrichment By PBS News Hour The U.N. Security Council unanimously approved a statement Wednesday demanding that Iran suspend its uranium enrichment program, marking the first direct request from the Security Council concerning Iran's nuclear program. Continue reading
Mar 29 Christian Convert Flees Afghanistan, Arrives in Italy By PBS News Hour Abdul Rahman, the Afghan man who had faced the death penalty for converting to Christianity from Islam, arrived in Italy Wednesday after the cancellation of his trial, which had gained worldwide notice. Continue reading
Mar 28 Watch Buchwald on Choosing How to Live and Die Eighty-year-old humorist and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Art Buchwald is suffering from kidney failure. He recently made public his decision to forego dialysis that could possibly prolong his life, at what he considers too burdensome a cost. In the following interview,… Continue watching
Mar 23 Car Bombs in Iraq Kill At Least 56 By PBS News Hour At least 56 Iraqis died Thursday in attacks, including a suicide car bombing outside a police crimes unit headquarters in Baghdad in which 25 people, including at least 10 policemen, died. Continue reading
Mar 23 Watch Converted Christian Sentenced to Death in Afghanistan A 41-year-old Afghan, Abdul Rahman, was born a Muslim but was sentenced to death for converting to Christianity. Jeffrey Brown discusses the religious trial with Washington Post editor Pamela Constable. Continue watching
Mar 22 Basque Separatist Group Declares End to Violence By PBS News Hour ETA, a Basque separatist movement that has plagued the Spanish government for nearly 40 years, declared a permanent cease-fire Wednesday, ending a bloody campaign that has killed at least 850 people. Continue reading
Mar 22 Iraqi Forces Ward Off Insurgent Raid on Police Station By PBS News Hour Insurgents attacked a police station near Baghdad killing three police officers and one commander after a two-hour gunbattle with Iraqi and U.S. forces that resulted in the capture of at least 50 insurgents. Continue reading
Mar 22 Watch Veteran David Botti Reflects on Going to War in April 2003 Marine Corps reservist and NewsHour desk assistant David Botti talks about his deployment to Iraq. Continue watching
Mar 22 Watch Two Days Of Killings Shake Iraq About 60 insurgents attacked a police station south of Baghdad Wednesday -- the second such attack in two days. Elsewhere in Baghdad, gunmen killed six Shiite pilgrims and wounded 50 others. Ray Suarez speaks with New York Times reporter Jeffrey… Continue watching
Mar 22 Watch Media Coverage of the Ongoing Conflict in Iraq Draws Scrutiny President Bush expressed frustration with the media's coverage of the continuing violence in Iraq saying there was not enough coverage of U.S. efforts to rebuild the country. Two experts offer their analysis of the press coverage of the Iraq War. Continue watching