Jan 08 Watch 9:35 Syria’s once-empowered Alawite minority faces uncertain future after fall of Assad By Leila Molana-Allen As Syria emerges from decades of dictatorship, people in the Assad family's ancestral home of Latakia province are both overjoyed and anxious. Assad and his family are Alawite, an offshoot of Shia Islam, and the people of his former region… Continue watching
Jan 08 Mexico’s President Sheinbaum gives sarcastic retort to Trump’s ‘Gulf of America’ comment By Megan Janetsky, Associated Press Standing before a global map in her daily press briefing, Sheinbaum proposed dryly that North America should be renamed “América Mexicana” because an 1814 founding document that preceded Mexico's constitution referred to it that way. Continue reading
Jan 08 Pope Francis names first woman to head major Vatican office By Nicole Winfield, Associated Press Pope Francis has named the first woman to head a major Vatican office. He is appointing Sister Simona Brambilla, an Italian nun, to become prefect of the Vatican department responsible for all the church's religious orders. Continue reading
Jan 08 Troops recover body of hostage from Gaza tunnel, Israel’s military says By Tia Goldenberg, Melanie Lidman, Associated Press Israel’s military says troops have recovered the body of an additional hostage from Gaza. Continue reading
Jan 08 Russian missile attack in southern Ukraine city of Zaporizhzhia kills at least 13 civilians, officials say By Illia Novikov, Associated Press Footage posted Wednesday on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's Telegram channel showed civilians lying in a city street littered with debris. Continue reading
Jan 07 Watch 6:29 News Wrap: Wildfire in hills of Los Angeles rapidly explodes in size In our news wrap Tuesday, residents are fleeing the hills of Los Angeles after the Palisades Fire exploded in size to more than 700 acres, a so-called polar vortex is bringing freezing temperatures as far south as the Gulf Coast,… Continue watching
Jan 07 Watch 8:19 U.S. accuses Sudan’s rebel forces of committing genocide By Amna Nawaz, Dan Sagalyn The Biden administration says the Rapid Support Forces rebel group in Sudan is committing genocide and announced new sanctions for the group’s leader and affiliated companies. It’s the latest escalation for Sudan which is facing the worst humanitarian crisis in… Continue watching
Jan 07 Watch 5:47 Activists in Iran describe the threats and oppression they face for protesting By Nick Schifrin, Zeba Warsi France’s foreign minister said three French detainees being held by Iran face conditions that fall within the definition of torture. Human rights groups have long decried how Iran treats its prisoners. Nick Schifrin and producers spoke to protestors inside Iran,… Continue watching
Jan 07 Watch 8:41 Where does U.S. foreign aid go and does it make an impact? By Fred de Sam Lazaro The U.S. has long been one of the world’s largest donors of foreign aid. But in recent years, its effectiveness has been called into question by a chorus of critics who say the impact of assistance programs falls well short… Continue watching
Jan 07 North Korea says it tested hypersonic intermediate range missile designed to strike remote Pacific targets By Kim Tong-Hyung, Associated Press North Korea says its latest weapons test was a new hypersonic intermediate-range missile designed to strike targets in the Pacific. Continue reading