Jul 21 Human rights activists team up with Silicon Valley to bring information to North Korea By Jaywon Choe The Human Rights Foundation will host a two-day event in August, bringing together experts from the tech industry with North Korean activists and defectors. The goal -- to brainstorm new ways of smuggling information into one of the world’s most… Continue reading
Jul 21 Malaysia Prime Minister says his country will take custody of MH17's black boxes By Colleen Shalby In a statement released Monday, Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib Razak said that a Malaysian team in Donetsk will take custody of two black boxes from the downed Malaysia Airlines jet that crashed over eastern Ukraine Thursday. Continue reading
Jul 21 Gaza conflict enters 14th day as Israeli forces claim to stop tunnel attacks By Justin Scuiletti The Israel Defense Forces claimed to have stopped two militant infiltrations into Israel on Monday as bloody fighting in the Gaza strip entered its 14th day. Continue reading
Jul 21 U.S. stacks up evidence against Russia-backed separatists in plane catastrophe By Matthew Lee, Associated Press "A buildup of extraordinary circumstantial evidence ... it's powerful here," said Secretary of State John Kerry, a former prosecutor, and it holds Russian-supported rebels in eastern Ukraine responsible for shooting down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, with the Kremlin complicit in… Continue reading
Jul 21 Obama pushes Putin to rein in separatists at Malaysia Airlines crash site By News Desk and Associated Press U.S. officials have been seeking to build a case that the plane was shot down by pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine. Officials also say it is unlikely the separatists could have fired a missile without assistance from Russia. Continue reading
Jul 21 Kerry heads to Cairo to push for Mideast cease-fire By Lara Jakes, Associated Press Kerry will urge the militant Palestinian group to accept a cease-fire agreement offered by Egypt that would halt nearly two weeks of fighting. More than 500 Palestinians and 20 Israelis have been killed in that time. Continue reading
Jul 20 Watch Full Episode | Sunday, July 20, 2014 By PBS News Hour On Sunday's edition of NewsHour Weekend, Secretary Kerry says there is an enormous amount of evidence that the downed Malaysia Airlines plane was brought down by a Russian-made missile. Also: A sharp escalation of fighting in Gaza as thirteen Israeli… Continue watching
Jul 20 Watch Locals struggle to escape violence in Gaza after the conflict's bloodiest day By PBS News Hour In what was the bloodiest day of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in recent years, local residents in the densely populated region are struggling to escape the violence, as the general mood in the Gaza Strip devolves into a stressful, anxious state… Continue watching
Jul 20 Watch No sign of violence letting up in Gaza after conflict logs deadliest day By PBS News Hour After more than 60 Palestinians and 13 Israeli solders were killed in battle Saturday in what has been the deadliest day in the conflict so far, there are few signs of the violence letting up as urban warfare continues to… Continue watching
Jul 20 Watch Kerry: Evidence mounts pointing blame at pro-Russian separatists for MH17 By PBS News Hour Pro-Russian separatist leader Alexander Borodai said today that critical evidence has been recovered from the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 that is believed to have been shot down Thursday near the Ukrainian-Russian border. Secretary of State John Kerry said there was… Continue watching