Jul 09 Watch News Wrap: As deadline looms, Kerry says Iran nuclear talks not 'open-ended' By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Thursday, another day of Iran nuclear talks concluded without a deal. Iran’s state TV reported that negotiations are deadlocked, while Secretary of State John Kerry said the talks would not be open-ended. Also, the International Monetary… Continue watching
Jul 09 Who are the 4 million Syrian refugees? By Larisa Epatko The number of refugees from Syria, who have escaped internal fighting to neighboring countries, has surpassed 4 million -- the largest number of refugees from any single conflict since 1992, the U.N. refugee agency said Thursday. Continue reading
Jul 08 Watch 4:05 Will China's market crisis spur a confidence crisis for President Xi? By PBS News Hour The sudden slide in the Chinese stock markets has spurred worries that the panic could spread beyond China's borders. What’s the root cause of the deflating bubble? Chief foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Warner joins Gwen Ifill to discuss the economic… Continue watching
Jul 08 Watch 2:38 China's stock markets plunge despite efforts to curb selling By PBS News Hour Since mid-June, China’s two main stock markets have seen drastic drops, falling by more than 30 percent. In the past year, reforms toward greater liberalization had helped the markets skyrocket, but this recent free fall has spurred some panic among… Continue watching
Jul 08 You can't understand the Islamic State until you know its past By P. J. Tobia For this week's Shortwave, host PJ Tobia chats with Cole Bunzel, one of the world's foremost experts on the Islamic State and a postdoctoral candidate at Princeton University, has translated hundreds of pages of Islamic State's founding documents from the… Continue reading
Jul 07 Watch 9:29 News Wrap: Afghanistan confirms direct talks with Taliban By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Tuesday, the government of Afghanistan confirmed it has engaged in direct, face-to-face talks with the Taliban, its first formal encounter since 2001. Also, the U.S. strategy to defeat the Islamic State was heavily criticized by Senate… Continue watching
Jul 07 Watch 4:57 Che Guevara's son on Cuba's coming identity crisis By PBS News Hour When Omar Perez was 25, he found out his father was the revolutionary Che Guevara. For Perez -- a poet, artist and musician -- the revelation didn’t much change his outlook on life, or on Cuba. Jeffrey Brown talks to… Continue watching
Jul 07 Watch 8:04 Why the Greek crisis is a matter of life and death for some By PBS News Hour Greece traditionally has had a low suicide rate, but over five years of austerity, the country has seen an increase in the number of people taking their own lives. And if the crisis gets worse, the number of suicides and… Continue watching
Jul 07 Watch 5:41 Tense and fatigued, negotiators extend Iran nuclear talks past deadline By PBS News Hour The revised deadline for Iran, the U.S. and five other Western powers to come to a nuclear agreement came and went without a deal. The White House said there won’t be a deal until the sticking points are resolved. Judy… Continue watching
Jul 07 Nuke deal remains elusive after deadline, but talks continue By Bradley Klapper, Associated Press VIENNA — Iran took a hard line Thursday on two of the biggest demands of world powers in a final nuclear accord, rejecting any extraordinary inspection rules and threatening to ramp up enrichment of bomb-making material if the United States… Continue reading