Sep 06 Watch 4:28 Lack of funding forces UN to cut food aid in Afghanistan as hunger rises to record levels By Nick Schifrin, Zeba Warsi The United Nations World Food Programme has announced a lack of funding is forcing it to stop feeding some of the most vulnerable people in Afghanistan. The organization is scaling back just as hunger is rising to record levels with… Continue watching
Sep 05 Watch 5:15 News Wrap: Federal court rejects Alabama’s 2nd try at congressional map In our news wrap Tuesday, a panel of three federal judges struck down Alabama's second try at a congressional map after Republican lawmakers refused to create a second majority-Black district, prosecutors in Atlanta charged 61 people with racketeering after two… Continue watching
Aug 22 Watch 4:52 News Wrap: California towns digging out of debris left behind from Tropical Storm Hilary In our news wrap Tuesday, crews in mountain and desert towns in California are still digging out of mud and debris left behind from Tropical Storm Hilary, more than 800 people on Maui are still unaccounted for two weeks after… Continue watching
Aug 16 UN envoy says ICC should prosecute Taliban for crimes against humanity for denying education, employment to women By Edith M. Lederer, Associated Press Gordon Brown told a U.N. conference on the second anniversary of the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan that its rulers are responsible for "the most egregious, vicious and indefensible violation of women's rights and girls' rights in the world today."… Continue reading
Aug 15 Taliban says they are in Afghanistan to stay as they mark 3 years in power By Riazat Butt, Associated Press They marked their second anniversary as rulers of Afghanistan on Tuesday, which was declared a public holiday. Women, largely barred from public life, didn’t take part in the festivities. Continue reading
Aug 10 Watch 7:31 Family of Afghan American held by Taliban pleads for release: ‘He’s done nothing wrong’ By Amna Nawaz, Teresa Cebrian Aranda An Afghan American businessman has been held for more than a year in the land of his birth. Mahmood Habibi's family has decided to go public in the hopes that the Taliban will release him. Amna Nawaz spoke with them… Continue watching
Jul 23 Dozens killed in flash floods, landslides amid heavy rains in Afghanistan and Pakistan By Associated Press Heavy flooding from seasonal rains in Afghanistan killed at least 31 people and left dozens missing over the past three days, while in neighboring Pakistan 13 people died due to heavy rains and landslides. Continue reading
Jul 17 UN says the Taliban have further increased restrictions on women and girls in Afghanistan By Rahim Faiez, Associated Press The U.N. mission in Afghanistan says in a report that the Taliban's Ministry of Public Health has announced that only males will be allowed to take exams to pursue specialized medical studies. Continue reading
Jul 11 Read an excerpt from ‘No Ordinary Assignment: A Memoir’ by Jane Ferguson By Jane Ferguson Special correspondent Jane Ferguson has reported from all over the globe, from combat zones in Afghanistan, Ukraine and Yemen to the aftermath of the recent earthquakes in Turkey. Tuesday on the PBS NewsHour, Ferguson sits down… Continue reading
Jun 30 Watch 6:11 U.S. failed to plan for worst-case scenarios before Afghanistan withdrawal, review says By Ali Rogin, Dan Sagalyn A long-awaited report on the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan has identified several failings that contributed to the chaos. The State Department review concluded that both the Trump and Biden administrations failed to consider worst-case scenarios for what would happen when… Continue watching