Nov 02 When an international flight crashes, who is involved in the investigation and why? By Rhana Natour The investigation into what happened to Metrojet Flight 9268 and the 224 mostly Russian passengers aboard is in its third day. As the mystery deepens, representatives from at least five countries are now involved in finding out what happened to… Continue reading
Nov 01 Questions swirl over Russian plane crash in Egypt that killed 224 By Daniel Costa-Roberts New information has emerged about the Russian passenger jet the crashed in the Sinai Peninsula Saturday, though many questions remain about the disaster, whose cause is yet uncertain. Continue reading
Oct 31 More than 200 dead after Russian airliner crashes in Egypt's Sinai By Daniel Costa-Roberts MetroJet flight 9268 and its 224 passengers and crew lifted off from the Egyptian resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh shortly before 6 a.m. Saturday morning. Just 23 minutes later, the flight lost contact with ground control and plunged more than… Continue reading
Oct 16 Watch 9:27 Journalist Mohamed Fahmy on 'brutal' experience in Egyptian supermax prison By PBS News Hour Before his release in September, Al Jazeera journalist Mohamed Fahmy spent more than 400 days locked up in the terrorism wing of “Scorpion” prison in Egypt. He had no way to tell time, and was sleeping on the floor of… Continue watching
Sep 28 Watch 11:27 Egypt's president on fighting Islamic State, U.S. relations By PBS News Hour Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi sits down with chief foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Warner to discuss the pardoning of Al Jazeera journalists, whether Egypt will step up military action against the Islamic State, President Bashar al-Assad’s future in Syria, the government… Continue watching
Sep 23 Watch 3:50 News Wrap: Volkswagen CEO steps down amid rigging scandal By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Wednesday, Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn announced his resignation in the wake of a scandal over diesel cars that were rigged to pass pollution tests, but denied personal wrongdoing. Also, imprisoned Al Jazeera journalists Mohamed Fahmy and… Continue watching
Sep 18 Quiz: Test your brain on this week's world news By Larisa Epatko The week of international news began with the fallout from Egyptian security forces accidentally firing upon a tourist convoy, followed by a major earthquake on the Pacific Ring of Fire. Take our five-minute quiz about these events. Continue reading
Sep 15 Watch 4:54 Accidental killing of tourists highlights Egypt-U.S. tension over military aid By PBS News Hour On Sunday, 12 tourists were accidentally killed by Egyptian government forces, who mistook the group for Islamist militants and fired on them with an Apache helicopter. Jeffrey Brown speaks to Michele Dunne of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace about… Continue watching
Sep 15 Watch 54:38 PBS NewsHour full episode September 15, 2015 By PBS News Hour Tuesday on the NewsHour, Europe grapples with the refugee crisis as Hungary declares a state of crisis and more refugees die trying to cross by sea. Also: Republicans strategize on how to court women voters, a five-day teachers’ strike comes… Continue watching
Sep 12 Watch 1:51 Buried underwater, Ancient Egyptian artifacts rise to the surface in Paris By Sam Weber An exhibition of ancient Egyptian artifacts found buried underwater has opened to the public in Paris. Hari Sreenivasan reports. Continue watching