Oct 27 President Dilma Rousseff narrowly wins re-election in Brazil By News Desk Brazilian leftist President Dilma Rousseff barely won re-election over centrist candidate Aecio Neves in Sunday’s election in a country suffering economically. Continue reading
Oct 27 Pro-Europe parties in the lead in Ukraine's parliamentary vote By News Desk Two parties considered pro-European were in the lead in Sunday’s parliamentary elections in Ukraine, according to partial tallies on Monday. Continue reading
Oct 26 Watch PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode Oct. 26, 2014 By PBS News Hour On this edition for Sunday, Oct. 26, a top federal health official suggests the decision by governors to quarantine doctors who treated Ebola patients might hurt efforts to curb the disease. Later, after several recent incidents in Canada and New… Continue watching
Oct 26 Pakistan's first cartoon superheroine joins fight against polio By Carey Reed Amid a rise in polio cases in Pakistan, the country's first animated female superhero, Burka Avenger, has joined the fight to eradicate the highly-infectious virus. Continue reading
Oct 26 Watch Nigerian schoolgirls remain in captivity despite pledges for release By PBS News Hour For 10 days now there have been reports from Africa that those hundreds of school girls abducted by Boko Haram extremists last Spring would be released. But the girls remain in captivity. And, another 30 adolescents were reportedly abducted in… Continue watching
Oct 25 Watch PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode Oct. 25, 2014 By PBS News Hour On this edition for Saturday, Oct. 25, 2014, as the World Health Organization says the number of Ebola cases worldwide now tops 10,000, a top infectious disease expert weighs in on the risks of the virus. In our signature segment,… Continue watching
Oct 24 Watch Saving lives and bearing witness in hot spots around the world By PBS News Hour The New York doctor infected with Ebola was working in Guinea for Doctors Without Borders, a humanitarian organization that deploys specialists to provide medical help in crisis zones all over the world. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro offers a… Continue watching
Oct 24 Watch What consumers should know about the Takata airbag recalls By PBS News Hour Automakers have recalled more than 50 million vehicles in 2014. The latest wave impacts certain cars with defective airbags from the Japanese company Takata. The airbags, which can can rupture and blast metal debris, have been linked to at least… Continue watching
Oct 24 Watch Liberian immigrants face Ebola stigma in U.S. By PBS News Hour While Manhattan is confronting its first Ebola infection, a Liberian community on Staten Island has been following the devastating toll of the epidemic in West Africa. Hari Sreenivasan reports from “Little Liberia,” where he talks to people who have been… Continue watching
Oct 24 Watch Officials try to ease worries about NYC's first Ebola case By PBS News Hour New York health officials say an American doctor who contracted Ebola after treating patients in Guinea showed no symptoms for more than a week before falling ill. Dr. Craig Spencer has been isolated and his fiancee and two friends have… Continue watching