Feb 15 Watch News Wrap: Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi Ordered to Stand Trial In other news Tuesday, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was ordered to stand trial for allegations he paid an underage girl for sex. Berlusconi denies the charges and refuses to step down. In Southern Sudan, the death toll from a… Continue watching
Feb 15 Clinton: Internet Barriers Have 'Moral, Political and Economic' Costs By Larisa Epatko Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took to task governments, including those in China, Myanmar and Iran, for curbing Internet freedoms of their citizens, while defending the Obama administration's stance on the leaked WikiLeaks documents in a speech Tuesday. Continue reading
Jan 31 Watch With Egypt, U.S. Juggles Longtime Alliance, Protesters' Calls for Reform More than 1,200 Americans have left Egypt, with more expected to depart in the coming days. As the U.S. government reacts to the uprising facing its longtime Middle Eastern ally, President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have called… Continue watching
Jan 14 Watch U.S. Turns to China for 'Real Action' on North Korea, Other Issues Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urges China to enforce U.N. sanctions against North Korea in a major policy address Friday. Margaret Warner, in Seoul, speaks with South Korea's national security adviser, and describes South Korea's tougher line toward the North,… Continue watching
Nov 17 Watch New START Treaty a Top Priority For Democrats in Lame-Duck Session Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged the Senate to vote on the U.S.-Russia nuclear treaty called New START in the lame-duck session. But the Obama administration is getting push-back from some senators who say a vote now would be a… Continue watching
Nov 17 Watch Can New START Treaty Survive Partisan Divide in Congress? Margaret Warner looks into the U.S. political battle over whether to ratify a new nuclear arms control treaty with Russia. She talks to two experts in such negotiations: Richard Burt, chief U.S. negotiator during the START talks in 1991, and… Continue watching
Sep 17 Watch Israeli Settlements Key Issue in Latest Mideast Peace Talks The second round of the latest Middle East peace talks took place this week in Egypt and Jerusalem between Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas with Israeli settlements remaining a big diplomatic hurdle. Jeffrey Brown gets an… Continue watching
Sep 02 Watch Early Signs of Progress in Middle East Peace Talks? Judy Woodruff speaks with Daniel Levy, director of the Middle East Task Force at the New America Foundation, and Hisham Melhem, Washington bureau chief of Al-Arabiya, about what progress was made Thursday at the start of renewed Middle East peace… Continue watching
Sep 02 Watch Clinton Lauds Mideast Leaders as Peace Talks Begin Anew Middle East peace negotiations started again Thursday for the first time in two years at the State Department in Washington. But Israelis and Palestinians face many hurdles in the coming weeks and months of talks. Judy Woodruff has more. Continue watching