Aug 25 Watch Power Failure Upgrading the U.S. electric transmission grid to prevent future blackouts could cost $100 billion, according to an industry report released Monday. Experts discuss these proposed improvements to the grid system and the investigation into the cause of the August 14… Continue watching
Aug 22 Nearly 100 Feared Dead in Nigerian Clashes Nearly a week of ethnic warfare in the southern Nigerian oil city of Warri has left an estimated 100 people dead and more than 1,000 others injured, the Nigerian Red Cross told news agencies Friday. Continue reading
Aug 22 Watch Oliphant and York Political analysts Tom Oliphant of The Boston Globe and Byron York of the National Review discuss the week's news, including how the Bush administration is faring on domestic issues in the face of continuing developments in Iraq and the latest… Continue watching
Aug 21 New Liberian Transition Leader Chosen As Liberia's rebels and government chose a new leader to head their transition government, the United Nations envoy to Liberia said he would ask the Security Council to authorize its largest peacekeeping deployment in the world -- 15,000 troops. Continue reading
Aug 21 Senior Hamas Leader Killed in Strike; Militants End Truce Israeli military forces killed a senior leader in the Hamas political movement Thursday in a missile strike two days after a suicide bombing on a Jerusalem bus left 20 people dead. Continue reading
Aug 21 U.S. Exploring Possible Expanded Role for U.N., Powell Says Secretary of State Colin Powell told diplomats at the United Nations that the United States is considering a new resolution that would "call on member states to do more" in Iraq. Continue reading
Aug 21 Watch Cease-Fire Collapses Israeli and Palestinian advocates discuss the impacts of the Jerusalem bus bombing and subsequent killing of a senior Hamas leader on the struggle for peace in the Middle East. Continue watching
Aug 21 Watch Background: Cease-Fire Collapses Secretary of State Colin Powell called upon the international community to reinforce the "road map to peace" despite recent violence in the Middle East. Continue watching
Aug 20 U.S. Resumes Drug Surveillance Flights Over Colombia President Bush late Tuesday reinstated a U.S.-backed flight surveillance program over Colombia, following a two-year suspension after the accidental downing of a U.S. missionary plane over Peru. Continue reading
Aug 20 Twenty Killed, Scores Hurt in Jerusalem Bus Bombing A suicide attacker detonated a bomb on a packed Jerusalem bus Tuesday, killing at least 20 people and wounding more than 100. Continue reading