Aug 11 Watch News Wrap: Iraq’s president taps Abadi to replace Maliki as prime minister By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Aug 11 Turkey to select new prime minister at end of August By Elena Becatoros and Suzan Fraser of the Associated Press ISTANBUL, Turkey — Turkey's governing party said Monday it will select a new prime minister at the end of August to replace Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who won the country's first direct presidential election in a historic vote. Continue reading
Aug 11 South Korea proposes new round of family reunions with North Korea By Ariel Min South Korea on Monday proposed a second high-level meeting of the year with North Korea to discuss arranging another reunion for the separated elderly in the Koreas. Continue reading
Aug 11 Obama calls for new Iraqi government By Julie Pace, Associated Press CHILMARK, Mass. — President Obama is giving his approval to the appointment of a prime minister to replace Nouri al-Maliki and urging the formation of a new government in Iraq as soon as possible. Continue reading
Aug 11 U.S. sends disaster relief team to Iraq By Associated Press Much of the assistance will go to thousands of members of an Iraqi religious minority group known as Yazidis who have been trapped on a mountaintop in northwest Iraq to escape certain death by Sunni militants with the Islamic… Continue reading
Aug 11 U.S. begins sending arms to Kurdish forces in Iraq By Julie Pace, Lolita C. Baldor, Associated Press The officials wouldn't say which U.S. agency is providing the arms or what weapons are being sent, but one official said it isn't the Pentagon. The CIA has historically done similar quiet arming operations. Continue reading
Aug 11 Power shift underway in Iraq as Maliki faces challenger By News Desk Malaki supporters marched in the streets chanting support for the embattled prime minister, and militias and leaders across Iraq braced for a potential attempt at a military coup. But as yet Malaki has not made an obvious move to retain… Continue reading
Aug 10 Watch PBS NewsHour | Full Episode | Sunday, August 10, 2014 By PBS News Hour On this edition, new American efforts to save tens of thousands of Iraqis who fled from islamic jihadists, the burden of college debt and new statistics about how much it weighs on graduates and for how long, and from Boston,… Continue watching
Aug 10 How mapping the Ebola outbreak may ease future health crises By Vic Pasquantonio How is a computer program able to spot Ebola happening before researchers can? HealthMap is a website that’s been around since 2006 and aims to help public health organizations determine that a crisis is occurring. Continue reading
Aug 10 Watch Beyond Iraq, what’s next for the Islamic State? By PBS News Hour As members of the Islamic State continue to brutally terrorize civilians in Iraq, experts are focusing on what's to come. Senior and National Securities Studies Fellow at the New America Foundation Douglas Ollivant joins Hari Sreenivasan. Continue watching