Aug 25 Watch 3:36 News Wrap: Monsoon death toll rises above 1,200 By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Friday, the death toll from monsoon flooding across South Asia surged again to more than 1,200. Entire communities across India, Bangladesh and Nepal are devastated with many cut off from clean food and water. Also, in… Continue watching
Aug 25 Why the U.S. imposed sanctions on Venezuela By Larisa Epatko President Donald Trump imposed new financial sanctions against Venezuela on Friday, a response to President Nicolas Maduro's attempts to gain more presidential powers. Continue reading
Aug 25 Monsoon floods cut off villages, swamp farms in South Asia By Larisa Epatko At least 1,200 people have died from monsoons and flooding in India, Bangladesh and Nepal over the past month. Continue reading
Aug 25 Rosa Parks’ house may be returned to U.S. from Germany By David Rising, Associated Press BERLIN — Section by section, American artist Ryan Mendoza painstakingly disassembled the small wood-frame home of civil rights icon Rosa Parks after learning that the struggling city of Detroit was going to have it demolished. Continue reading
Aug 24 Watch 8:18 In the fight against ISIS, Kurds seek chance to govern themselves By PBS News Hour Perhaps the most effective force in the battle to retake Raqqa from the Islamic State are the fighters without a home state. Ethnic Kurds, both men and women, form the backbone of the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces and see the… Continue watching
Aug 24 Analysis: In Kenya, uneasy stalemate follows election By John Campbell, Council on Foreign Relations The opposition leader’s challenge to incumbent Uhuru Kenyatta’s election victory risks undermining democracy in East Africa’s economic hub. Continue reading
Aug 24 Column: Journalist Kim Wall’s wit shone through her work and life By Jon Gerberg The gallivanting journalist she was, always sneaking off to some far corner of the world and returning with a juicy, moving, almost other-worldly story. Continue reading
Aug 23 Watch 5:13 North Korean advances add urgency to U.S. and South Korea war games By PBS News Hour, Nick Schifrin The U.S. and South Korea are conducting joint military exercises, drills the U.S. says are designed to “enhance readiness” and “maintain stability.” But what the U.S. deems defensive, North Korea calls provocative, with Pyongyang claiming the exercises are driving the… Continue watching
Aug 23 Boko Haram has used 83 children as human bombs so far this year By Synclaire Cruel The radical militant group Boko Haram has already used four times as many child suicide bombers in northeast Nigeria this year than it did in 2016, the United Nations Children’s Fund reported Tuesday. Continue reading
Aug 23 Poll: 61 percent of Americans have little to no confidence in Trump’s ability to handle international crisis By Laura Santhanam Nearly three-quarters of Americans prefer some form of diplomacy over warfare to diffuse tensions between the United States and North Korea. Continue reading