Mar 28 Watch What's behind the widening division between U.S. and Saudi Arabia? By PBS News Hour Saudi Arabia has warned of a “major shift” away from their long-time reliance on the U.S. amid strained relations over concerns like the war in Syria, nuclear negotiations with Iran and turmoil in Egypt. Jeffrey Brown talks to Toby Jones… Continue watching
Mar 28 Watch As time dwindles, search for Flight 370 shifts nearly 700 miles following new data By PBS News Hour A new discovery of debris shifted the search for the missing Malaysian airliner hundreds of miles northeast, three weeks after the jet disappeared. But time is fading before potential pings from the aircraft’s black box will end. Hari Sreenivasan turns… Continue watching
Mar 28 Watch In visit to Saudi Arabia, Obama seeks to heal U.S. rift with key partner By PBS News Hour It's a tense time for U.S. relations with Saudi Arabia. President Obama visited the desert nation and met with King Abdullah in hopes of reassuring Saudi concerns about the Syrian war, among other things. Jeffrey Brown looks back at recent… Continue watching
Mar 28 Flock of sheep aid French farmers' protest at Louvre By Lorna Baldwin Video via euronews Twelve sheep and a sheepdog walk into the Louvre. If it sounds like the beginning of a joke, it's not. In Paris Friday, French farmers protesting European Union agricultural policy herded a flock of sheep down… Continue reading
Mar 27 Watch President Obama and Pope Francis discuss social issues, inequality concerns during first meeting By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Mar 27 Watch News Wrap: Philippine government signs peace accord ending conflict with Muslim rebel group By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Thursday, the Philippine government signed a peace agreement with the country’s largest Muslim rebel group to end decades of conflict. The deal creates an autonomous Muslim region in the south. Also, the International Monetary Fund will… Continue watching
Mar 27 Watch Scammers take advantage of Filipino nurses lured by promise of employment in the U.S. By PBS News Hour Shortages in the American health care system are raising demand for foreign nurses, who can unknowingly face great risk in finding a way to get to the United States. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports from the Philippines about… Continue watching
Mar 27 Japanese Court awards retrial for world's longest-serving death row inmate By Ariel Min Video by The Washington Post A Japanese court Thursday ordered the release and retrial of a prisoner who has been serving on death row for more than 45 years -- the longest-serving death row inmate in the world. Out of… Continue reading
Mar 27 Turkey moves to block YouTube following Twitter ban By News Desk A week after the Turkish government banned Twitter, authorities there moved to block online video-sharing site YouTube on Thursday. The Ankara, Turkey-based news organization Anadolu Agency reported that the national telecommunication authority had announced an “administrative block” on YouTube, though… Continue reading