Oct 30 Russia’s High Court Confirms Media’s Free Speech Rights During Elections Russia's top court has struck down parts of new regulations restricting media coverage during the run-up to December elections. Continue reading
Oct 29 Watch Dangerous Neighborhoods Simon Marks focuses the second of his two in-depth reports about postwar Iraq on how security concerns have slowed certain reconstruction efforts. Continue watching
Oct 29 Watch Deadlines Past with Walter Mears Walter Mears, a former Associated Press reporter, discusses his career covering 11 presidential campaigns, and how political journalism and the news business has changed over the last 40 years. Continue watching
Oct 28 Four Killed in Fallujah Car Bomb Blast At least four people were killed Tuesday when a car bomb exploded near a police station in the tense Iraqi city of Fallujah, and three others were injured when a roadside bomb detonated in the southern city of Basra. Continue reading
Oct 28 Watch Situation Report on Iraq President Bush called an impromptu press conference to react to the surge in attacks against Iraqis cooperating with the coalition occupation authority in Baghdad. Bush insisted that the U.S. must not be deterred from its reconstruction mission. Senate leaders provided… Continue watching
Oct 27 New York Times Names First Ombudsman The New York Times on Monday named Daniel Okrent its first ombudsman, filling a position created as a result of an internal review after a plagiarism scandal involving former reporter Jayson Blair. Continue reading
Oct 27 Wave of Bombings, Attacks Kill Nearly 40, Injure More Than 200 Suicide bombers attacked a hospital and three police stations in Iraq Monday, a day after insurgents launched an improvised rocket strike on a hotel housing top U.S. officials and attacked other American forces. Continue reading
Oct 27 Watch Deadly Attacks in Iraq An assault on the Al-Rashid Hotel was followed by a string of car bomb attacks against the International Red Cross headquarters in Baghdad and three Iraqi police stations. Four experts analyze the potential impacts on the Bush administration's policy on… Continue watching
Oct 27 Watch Background: Deadly Attacks in Iraq An assault on the Al-Rashid Hotel was followed by a string of car bomb attacks against the International Red Cross headquarters in Baghdad and three Iraqi police stations. Terence Smith speaks with New York Times correspondent Dexter Filkins in Baghdad… Continue watching
Oct 24 Three Americans Die in Iraq; U.S. Puts Hold on Turkish Troops As continuing violence in Iraq resulted in the deaths of three American soldiers Friday, U.S. and Turkish officials said they would delay the deployment of Turkish peacekeeping troops in Iraq. Continue reading