Jun 24 As Saudi women take the wheel, activists say fight for gender equality continues By Ilayda Kocak In Saudi Arabia, as a women’s driving ban is lifted Sunday, human rights advocates are criticizing the country’s remaining restrictions on women. Continue reading
Jun 24 Zimbabwe rules out delaying election after blast at rally By Farai Mutsaka, Associated Press Zimbabwe's presidential spokesman is ruling out an election delay or a state of emergency after an explosion at the president's campaign rally on Saturday that state media called an assassination attempt. Continue reading
Jun 24 At mini-migration summit, EU nations try to resolve differences By Raf Casert, Associated Press The leaders of Germany, France and about a dozen other European Union nations are converging on Brussels for an afternoon of informal talks on differences over migration ahead of a full EU summit that starts next Thursday. Continue reading
Jun 23 Watch 3:45 Rivals challenge Erdogan’s iron grip on eve of Turkey’s election By PBS News Hour Even though Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan has acquired a fervent voter base since he became prime minister in 2003 and then president in 2014, opponents ahead of the election on Sunday are proving that his victory is no longer a… Continue watching
Jun 23 After volcano eruption, Guatemalans lead their own disaster recovery By Walter E. Little, The Conversation Officially, 110 people died and 197 are missing. But an anthropologist-photojournalist team who lives in the area believe that those numbers are grossly underestimated. Continue reading
Jun 23 Health officials cautiously optimistic dangerous Ebola outbreak is over By Helen Branswell, STAT Transmission of the deadly virus appears to have stopped — though it is not yet time to pull back on the response operation. Continue reading
Jun 22 To beat Vegas bookies at the World Cup, these statisticians turned to artificial intelligence By Amanda Grennell After cleaning up at the 2014 World Cup, statistician Andreas Groll is enlisting machine learning to keep his lucky streak going… Continue reading
Jun 22 Watch 3:02 News Wrap: 200 migrants stranded on a Mediterranean rescue ship In our news wrap Wednesday, more than 200 migrants waited onboard a rescue ship in the Mediterranean hoping for a place to dock. Italy refused to accept the vessel, the second time that's happened this month. Also, the European Union… Continue watching
Jun 22 Watch 4:20 Saudi women are finally in the driver’s seat, but not of their own lives By Nick Schifrin Saudi Arabia has banned women from driving since the 1950s, and is the only country in the world to do so. But this Sunday that prohibition ends. Nick Schifrin looks at the state of women's rights in the kingdom, and… Continue watching
Jun 22 Watch 3:47 This music critic says it’s time to update our art consumption ethical standards In this #MeToo era, can we still separate art from the person who made it? New Yorker music critic Amanda Petrusich says that according to the "old rules," how an artist behaves or believes should be off-limits. Petrusich offers her… Continue watching