Dec 29 More Headlines: China Executes Briton Accused of Drug Smuggling In other headlines Tuesday: despite multiple international appeals, China has executed a British drug smuggler who relatives say was mentally unstable and unwittingly lured into crime. In a statement, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said, "I condemn the execution… Continue reading
Dec 29 Details Continue to Emerge on Terror Suspect, Botched Airline Plot New details continue to emerge over the botched Christmas Day plot to blow up a trans-Atlantic flight bound for Detroit. The dangerous explosive allegedly concealed by 23-year-old Nigerian student Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab could have blown a hole in the… Continue reading
Dec 29 Watch Other News: Death Toll Grows in Pakistan Bombing In other news, Pakistani authorities called for calm as the death toll from Monday's suicide bombing grew to 43, and an Afghan soldier reportedly shot and killed a U.S. soldier at a military base in western Afghanistan. Continue watching
Dec 29 Watch Obama Sharpens Criticism of Bomb Plot's 'Human and Systemic Failures' President Obama criticized "human and systemic failures" that allowed an attempted bombing of a flight bound for Detroit. Margaret Warner reports and speaks with Jeffrey Brown about the latest developments. Continue watching
Dec 28 After Unrest, Iranian Opposition Leaders Reportedly Arrested By Dave Gustafson At least seven Iranian opposition leaders were reported to have been arrested Monday including three top aides to former presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi just a day after his nephew was killed in the largest political protests in Iran… Continue reading
Dec 28 Watch New Clashes Test Iranian Regime's Grip on Tehran In the wake of weekend protests in Iran that left at least eight people dead, Margaret Warner speaks with a pair of experts about the enduring opposition movement. Continue watching
Dec 28 Watch Deadly Clashes in Iran Spark Another Government Crackdown About 300 people, including at least seven prominent opposition leaders, have been jailed in Iran following renewed protests over the weekend, the largest in six months. Continue watching
Dec 28 Watch News Wrap: Yemen Vows to Step Up Hunt for al-Qaida In other news, Yemen vowed Monday to step up its hunt for al-Qaida militants, and a suicide bomber killed at least 30 people in Pakistan. Continue watching
Dec 25 Friday's Headlines: Taliban Releases Video of U.S. Soldier; Vatican Reviews Security for Pope On Christmas morning, the Taliban released a video that appears to show a soldier captured almost six months ago in Afghanistan. Pfc. Bowe Robert Bergdahl, 23, disappeared June 30 from his combat post in the Paktika province, near the… Continue reading