Sep 20 Canadians are voting in an election that could knock Justin Trudeau from power By Rob Gillies, Associated Press Polls indicate Trudeau's Liberal Party is in a tight race with the rival Conservatives. Continue reading
Sep 19 Watch 4:30 U.S. authorities accelerate removal of Haitian asylum-seekers from Texas-Mexico border By PBS NewsHour Weekend Thousands of migrants, mostly from Haiti, have gathered under a bridge in the border town of Del Rio, Texas, where officials have declared a local state of emergency. The crisis has spotlighted Biden's continued use of a Trump-era deportation policy,… Continue watching
Sep 19 Australia says France knew of ‘grave’ submarine concerns By Rod McGuirk, Associated Press France accused Australia of concealing its intentions to back out of the 90 billion Australian dollar ($66 billion) contract for French majority state-owned Naval Group to build 12 conventional diesel-electric submarines. Continue reading
Sep 19 Volcano erupts on Atlantic island; lava destroys some homes By Joseph Wilson, Associated Press A volcano on Spain’s Atlantic Ocean island of La Palma erupted Sunday after a weeklong buildup of seismic activity, prompting authorities to speed up evacuations for 1,000 people as lava flows crept toward isolated mountain homes. Continue reading
Sep 19 Watch 10:29 In remote Sudan, the Darfur war remains present By Benedict Moran, Jorgen Samso The Darfur genocide in Sudan received widespread media coverage across the world and led to the arrest of the country’s former leader, Omar al Bashir. Traveling by car, by donkey, and on foot, Special Correspondent Benedict Moran and video journalist… Continue watching
Sep 19 As leaders reconvene at UN, climate and COVID top the list By Edith M. Lederer, Associated Press With the coronavirus pandemic still raging in many parts of the world, leaders from more than 100 nations are heading to New York this week for the United Nations' annual high-level gathering — a COVID-inflected, semi-locked down affair that takes… Continue reading
Sep 18 Taliban replace ministry for women with ‘virtue’ authorities By Kathy Gannon, Associated Press It was the latest troubling sign that the Taliban are restricting women's rights as they settle into government, just a month since they overran the capital of Kabul. During their previous rule of Afghanistan in the 1990s, the Taliban had… Continue reading
Sep 18 US ramps up plan to expel Haitian migrants gathered in Texas By Associated Press The Department of Homeland Security said in a statement that it moved about 2,000 of the migrants who had gathered under and near a bridge in the border city of Del Rio to other locations on Friday for processing and… Continue reading
Sep 18 Taliban replace ministry for women with one restricting them By Kathy Gannon, Associated Press Afghanistan’s new Taliban rulers set up a ministry for the “propagation of virtue and the prevention of vice” in the building that once housed the Women’s Affairs Ministry, escorting out World Bank staffers on Saturday as part of the forced… Continue reading
Sep 17 WATCH: Pentagon admits to civilian deaths in Kabul strike By Associated Press “The strike was a tragic mistake," Marine Gen. Frank McKenzie, head of U.S. Central Command, told a Pentagon news conference. Continue reading