Apr 24 Watch 5:36 How maps packed with data help scientists fight malaria By PBS News Hour High-tech maps may help researchers understand and predict disease outbreaks like malaria, an illness that kills between 600,000 and 1 million people each year. Scientists have begun using temperatures, rainfall patterns and other data to better target areas most at… Continue watching
Apr 24 Watch 3:00 Armenians remember victims 100 years since mass killings By PBS News Hour Armenia's government, joined by foreign leaders from Russia and France, marked 100 years since the first mass killings by Ottoman Turks in 1915; in total, an estimated 1.5 million people were killed. In Brussels, Lebanon and Los Angeles, people marched… Continue watching
Apr 24 Human rights activist Sabeen Mahmud shot dead in Karachi By Fred de Sam Lazaro Sabeen Mahmud was a human rights activist owner of a coffee shop and performance space in Karachi, Pakistan, designed to bring people together. On Friday, Mahmud, 40, was fatally gunned down as she left T2F (The Second Floor) following an… Continue reading
Apr 24 Shinzo Abe: Will he or won't he apologize during Washington visit? By Michael D. Mosettig Throughout this coming week, a Japanese visitor named Shinzo Abe will be touring the United States with stops in Boston, San Francisco and Los Angeles as well as meetings in Washington with President Barack Obama and a speech to Congress. Continue reading
Apr 24 Who were the four people killed in the CIA's drone strikes in Pakistan? By Connie Cass, Associated Press WASHINGTON — A look at the lives of four men — two Western hostages and two American terror suspects — who were killed by CIA drone strikes in Pakistan. Continue reading
Apr 24 Photos: Armenians focus on survivors of massacre 100 years ago By Larisa Epatko Friday marks the 100th anniversary of the slaughter of more than 1 million Armenians by the Ottoman Empire during World War I. People around the world remember the lives lost through vigils, memorials and wreath-laying ceremonies. The anniversary also has… Continue reading
Apr 23 Watch 53:50 PBS NewsHour full episode April 23, 2015 By PBS News Hour Thursday on the NewsHour, the U.S. admits it accidentally killed two Western hostages in Pakistan in a drone attack. Also: Questions about contributions and conflicts of interest at the Clinton Foundation, a personal story of transformation and gender identity, documenting… Continue watching
Apr 23 Watch 7:06 Photographer connects Armenians displaced around the world By PBS News Hour One hundred years ago this week, thousands of Armenians were rounded up in modern-day Turkey and deported or executed -- just the beginning of a mass elimination of Armenian Christians. Margaret Warner sits down with Armenian-American photographer Scout Tufankjian, who… Continue watching
Apr 23 Watch 10:11 'Intelligence failures' led to accidental drone deaths, says former counterterror center director By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Apr 23 Watch 3:16 Obama apologizes for drone-strike deaths of two hostages in Pakistan By PBS News Hour President Obama apologized to the families of two al-Qaida hostages -- an American and an Italian -- who were killed in January when a drone fired at a terrorist target in Pakistan. An independent review of the attack is underway. Continue watching