Dec 17 This pop-up bakery brings Palestinian taste around the world By Pavni Mittal Australian-Palestinian entrepreneur Ameer El-issa and a team of bakers serve knafeh, a cheese-based dessert, out of a shipping container. Continue reading
Dec 17 Defiant Theresa May says UK 'proving doubters wrong' on Brexit By Associated Press Writing in the Sunday Telegraph, May declared that "the last 10 days have marked a watershed in our negotiations to leave the European Union."… Continue reading
Dec 15 Watch 9:48 Policy disputes on North Korea are playing out in public. What does that do to diplomacy? By PBS News Hour At the UN on Friday, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson backed off comments he made this week about open talks with North Korea -- a marked shift in tone after months of tough statements from President Trump and others. William… Continue watching
Dec 15 Strong earthquake strikes Java island in Indonesia. Deaths reported By Joshua Barajas An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.5 struck Java, the most populous Indonesian island, minutes before midnight Friday, according to preliminary data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Continue reading
Dec 15 WATCH: Tillerson backtracks on offer of unconditional North Korea talks By Matthew Pennington, Associated Press Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's declaration before the U.N. Security Council marked a stunning reversal after he proposed discussions with Pyongyang without preconditions earlier this week. Continue reading
Dec 15 Homeland Security adds new requirements for visa waiver countries By Jill Colvin, Associated Press Countries that participate in the Visa Waiver Program are now being asked to fully comply with a program in which they use U.S. counterterrorism information to screen travelers. Continue reading
Dec 14 In phone call, Trump and Putin talk economy, North Korean nuclear threat By Associated Press The two presidents spoke by phone following Putin's annual press conference in Moscow. Continue reading
Dec 14 Watch 6:12 Why is Trump so insistent that Russia didn't interfere in the election? By PBS News Hour During his annual news conference in Moscow, Russian President denied interfering in last year's U.S. election, in words strikingly similar to those of President Trump. Judy Woodruff talks with Greg Miller of The Washington Post about Trump's routine denials of… Continue watching
Dec 14 Watch 5:37 To this Russian-American community, Russia has become a political scapegoat By Ryan Chilcote How have strains in U.S.-Russia relations affected Russian-Americans and recent immigrants? Special correspondent Ryan Chilcote reports from the Brighton BEach neighborhood of Brooklyn, the first stop for many of the 3 million Russian or former Soviet Union immigrants who come… Continue watching
Dec 14 Watch 7:50 Fighting the public health threat of counterfeit drugs By Fred de Sam Lazaro Fake pharmaceuticals are a multi-billion dollar problem around the world. Made and packaged to look like the real deal, these phonies may contain a fraction of the active ingredients or none at all. these fake drugs can have serious consequences… Continue watching