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Hoping for a brighter future, can Ukraine overcome division and corruption?
President Obama urged Europeans to rededicate themselves to defending freedom in the face of Russia’s annexation of Crimea. Meanwhile, Ukrainians say they’re ready to put the corruption of ousted President Viktor Yanukovych behind them. Chief foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Warner…
Photos: Yanukovych’s lavish digs came complete with guard lion
PBS NewsHour producer Morgan Till and chief foreign correspondent Margaret Warner have been reporting from Ukraine for the last week and a half. They have been in Crimea where voters decided to secede and join Russia, Donetsk in eastern Ukraine…
Obama warns against Russian military intervention in Ukraine
President Barack Obama said Friday afternoon that "we are now deeply concerned about reports of movements taken by the Russian Federation within Ukraine" and "there will be costs" to any military intervention.
Syria tops list of human rights violations in 2013, US report says
WASHINGTON -- A chemicals weapons attack in Syria last summer that the U.S. says killed more than 1,400 people was the world's worst human rights violation of 2013, the Obama administration concluded Thursday. The report by the State Department also…
In a vote on Sunday, the Ukrainian parliament named its speaker and top opposition member Oleksander Turchinov as interim president.
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and his administration abandoned government buildings in Kiev on Saturday. The embattled president accused the opposition of conducting a coup.
