Apr 10 Photos: Hagel visits Mongolia to sign agreement, receives horse By Justin Scuiletti U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel signed a joint vision statement with Mongolian Defense Minister Dashdemberal Bat-Erdene Thursday at Mongolia's Ministry of Defense in Ulan Bator, Mongolia. The agreement calls for more U.S. military exercises with Mongolia as the country… Continue reading
Apr 10 School chums of Malala Yousafzai add their voices to education equality By Larisa Epatko The two girls who were sitting on either side of education advocate Malala Yousafzai, when a Taliban gunman boarded their school bus in 2012 and tried to kill her, are now working side-by-side with her again to tout an equal… Continue reading
Apr 09 Watch ‘Long way to go’ in reform of Bangladesh’s garment industry since factory disaster By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Apr 09 SEC charges Hewlett-Packard for international bribes By Justin Scuiletti Hewlett-Packard will pay more than $108 million in a settlement agreement after the Securities and Exchange Commission charged the company Tuesday with bribing government officials to obtain public contracts. Continue reading
Apr 09 Car bombs in Syria kills 25, wounds 107 By Associated Press According to The Associated Press, the Syria state news agency says 2 car bombs in central city of Homs has killed 25 people and wounded 107. Continue reading
Apr 09 Questions linger a year after Bangladesh’s garment factory collapse By Fred de Sam Lazaro On the afternoon of April 23, 2013, workers at the Rana Plaza offices of BRAC Bank were concerned about recent cracks that had appeared in the walls of the building. Their manager ordered tellers to complete transactions they were working… Continue reading
Apr 08 Watch Unprecedented Ebola outbreak crosses borders in West Africa By PBS News Hour More than 100 people have died so far in the worst outbreak of the Ebola virus in years, which began in Guinea before spreading to Liberia. Now health officials are investigating possible cases in Mali and Ghana. Jeffrey Brown talks… Continue watching
Apr 08 Watch De-escalating unrest in Eastern Ukraine is delicate challenge for Kiev By PBS News Hour Ukrainian security forces managed to regain power in Kharkiv, yet pro-Russian demonstrators have held onto control of government buildings in two other cities in the country’s east. Chief foreign correspondent Margaret Warner joins Judy Woodruff to discuss the swift pro-Russian… Continue watching
Apr 08 Watch Kerry criticizes Eastern Ukraine protests as ‘contrived pretext’ for Russian force By PBS News Hour Ukrainian forces retook the regional government headquarters in one of three eastern cities, but in Donetsk and Luhansk, armed, pro-Russian supporters continued their standoff. Meanwhile, thousands of Russian forces have massed across the border as they did before the Crimea… Continue watching
Apr 08 Watch News Wrap: Hagel, Chinese defense minister discuss disputed islands By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Tuesday, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel met with China’s defense minister, who warned that his government is ready to use force to defend their sovereignty over a group of islands under territorial dispute with Japan and… Continue watching