Feb 17 Watch 7:59 Unearthing toxic conditions for impoverished gold miners By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Feb 17 Chinese short film encouraging families to talk about homosexuality gets over 100 million views By Shehryar Nabi, Marina Lopes A short film depicting two parents’ coming to terms with their son’s homosexuality has gone viral in China, garnering over 100 million views on QQ, a popular video streaming site in China. Once classified as a “mental illness”, homosexuality has… Continue reading
Feb 17 Photos: Child miners exposed to toxic chemicals in illegal gold mines By Larry C. Price Technically illegal but practiced openly, small-scale mining activity is everywhere. This region once hosted large gold mining operations which exploited the rivers and clear-cut hundreds of thousands of acres in search of promising deposits after securing the necessary permits from… Continue reading
Feb 17 Carnival parade accident in Haiti kills at least 20 By News Desk A high-voltage cable that fell on a parade float in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince on Tuesday caused a stampede that killed at least 20 people on the second day of Carnival celebrations. Continue reading
Feb 17 Fighting continues in eastern Ukraine despite truce By Larisa Epatko A ceasefire imposed Saturday night on Ukrainian and Russian-backed separatists was largely holding Tuesday, except in the strategic railway town of Debaltseve in eastern Ukraine. Continue reading
Feb 16 Watch 7:42 Islamic State exploits the chaos of civil war in Libya By PBS News Hour The murder of Egyptian Christian hostages by the Islamic State in Libya raises the alarm that the militant group is expanding from its territory in Syria and Iraq. Gwen Ifill talks to Frederic Wehrey of the Carnegie Endowment for International… Continue watching
Feb 16 Watch 6:04 News Wrap: Danish police arrest two for aiding gunman By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Monday, authorities in Copenhagen arrested two men they believe helped the shooter who carried out the worst terror attack in Denmark in decades. Also, fighting broke out between Ukrainian troops and Russian-back separatists a day after… Continue watching
Feb 16 Watch 2:30 Egypt launches airstrikes at Islamic State in Libya after Christian killings By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Feb 15 Watch 25:18 PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode Feb. 15, 2015 By PBS News Hour On this edition for Sunday Feb. 15, Danish police kill the terrorist who went on a rampage in Copenhagen Saturday. We have a report from the scene. The White House intervenes to try and limit the economic damage caused by… Continue watching