May 23 Watch 6:58 News Wrap: Warm embrace of Obama sign of how far Vietnam-U.S. relations have come By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Monday, President Obama was warmly welcomed in Vietnam on the first of a three-day visit. Lifting a 50-year-old arms embargo, he cited “common interests,” but denied China’s ever-expanding influence in the region was a consideration. Also,… Continue watching
May 23 Watch 10:44 With killing of top mullah, what's next for the Taliban in Afghanistan? By PBS News Hour On Saturday, a U.S. drone strike killed Mullah Mansour, the leader of the Taliban and architect of the group’s bloody reconquest of Afghanistan this past year. Chief foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Warner reports on the killing, and Hari Sreenivasan talks… Continue watching
May 23 Watch 9:03 Vietnam's new economy and old culture drawing back children of U.S. immigrants By PBS News Hour Continue watching
May 23 Watch 6:57 NewsHour's Malcolm Brabant reflects on Peabody win — and his own 'Desperate Journey' By PBS News Hour Over the weekend, the PBS NewsHour received the George Foster Peabody Award -- the highest honor in broadcast journalism -- for its coverage of the European migrant crisis with the “Desperate Journey” series. The award was accepted by special correspondent… Continue watching
May 23 To sway public opinion, China plants 488 million fake social media posts a year By Dominique Bonessi The Chinese government is paying its employees to generate positive comments on blog posts, and those positive comments totaled about 488 million from 2013 to 2014, a new study from Harvard University researchers revealed last week. Continue reading
May 23 Coordinated blasts hit Syrian government strongholds By News Desk A series of explosions targeting government strongholds in Syria killed at least 78 people on Monday, state media reported. The Islamic State militant group claimed responsibility. Continue reading
May 23 Obama lifts decades-old arms ban in his first visit to Vietnam By Foster Klug, Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam — U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday lifted a half-century-old ban on selling arms to Vietnam, looking to bolster a government seen as a crucial, though flawed partner in a region that he has tried to place at… Continue reading
May 23 Obama: Taliban leader's death a 'milestone' for Afghan peace By Nancy Benac, Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam — President Barack Obama said Monday that the violent death of Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Akhtar Mansour by a U.S. airstrike should send a "clear signal" to anti-American extremists that "we're going to protect our people."… Continue reading
May 22 Watch 24:51 PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode May 22, 2016 By PBS News Hour On this PBS NewsHour Weekend episode for Sunday, May 22, President Obama visits Vietnam, his first stop on a week-long trip, and the leader of the Taliban is killed by a U.S. drone strike inside Pakistan. Later, on our signature… Continue watching
May 22 Watch 9:47 How Lebanon is coping with more than a million Syrian refugees By PBS News Hour Syria's 5-year-long civil war has killed more than 400,000 people and displaced eleven million more, 5 million of whom have become refugees. But as people flee the humanitarian crisis to places like Europe and Turkey, tiny Lebanon holds the distinction… Continue watching