May 27 Amid low turnout, Egypt extends voting for one more day By News Desk Egypt's election commission on Tuesday extended voting for the next president to a third day amid evidence of low voter turnout during the initial two days. Former army chief Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi is expected to win easily, but those loyal to… Continue reading
May 26 Watch Why far-right and far-left parties are gaining ground in Europe By PBS News Hour From Great Britain to Greece, anti-European Union political fervor surged in European Parliamentary elections over economic, globalization and immigration concerns. Jeffrey Brown discusses the rise of these anti-establishment groups and their potential impact with Antoine Ripoll of the European Parliament… Continue watching
May 26 Watch Pope Francis performs ‘balancing act’ of agendas on Middle East visit By PBS News Hour Juggling the political and religious rivalries between Israel and the Palestinians during his trip to the Middle East, Pope Francis called on Mahmoud Abbas and Shimon Peres to join him at the Vatican for prayer and reflection. Jeffrey Brown gets… Continue watching
May 26 Watch Swinging both right and left, anti-EU sentiment sweeps Europe’s parliamentary elections By PBS News Hour Over the weekend, anti-establishment parties on both the right and the left made a strong showing in parliamentary elections in the United Kingdom, France, Denmark, Spain, Greece and others. Matt Frei of Independent Television News reports from Paris on the… Continue watching
May 26 Watch Can Ukraine’s Poroshenko deliver on lofty expectations? By PBS News Hour Chief foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Warner joins Judy Woodruff from Kiev for an update on the latest fighting and chaos in Eastern Ukraine. Warner also discusses the challenges facing the likely future president, Petro Poroshenko, as he lays out plans… Continue watching
May 26 Watch Ukraine’s president-elect promises stepped-up response to separatists By PBS News Hour Petro Poroshenko, Ukraine’s presumptive president-elect and billionaire businessman, is not in charge yet, but he has pledged to go after armed separatist fighters and to reunite the badly fractured country. Meanwhile in Donetsk, heavily-armed Pro-Russian militia seized an airport. Chief… Continue watching
May 26 Watch Pope Francis invites Israeli, Palestinian leaders for prayer at the Vatican By PBS News Hour In charged acts of political symbolism, Pope Francis stopped at some of the holiest sites for Jews and Muslims during a trip to the Middle East. Pope Francis called for renewed peace talks, and became the first pontiff to refer… Continue watching
May 26 Watch News Wrap: Narendra Modi sworn in as Indian prime minister By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Monday, India’s new prime minister took the oath of office in New Delhi. Among the thousands in attendance was Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif, a historic first for two counties that have fought on and off… Continue watching
May 26 Pope completes spiritual pilgrimage in Holy Land calling for unity and peace By Ellen Rolfes While the pope's spokesman said that Francis had "no political agenda or proposals to make" during his trip to Israel, Francis' presence in the Holy Land, in Palestinian territory and Jerusalem, was filled with political implications. Continue reading
May 26 Thousands of American military graves lie forgotten and lost abroad By Elizabeth Shell We don’t know how many Americans who died while serving at wartime are buried on foreign soil. Why? It's complicated. But one historian has been painstakingly counting, cataloguing and mapping the locations of American war dead that goes beyond the… Continue reading