Jul 21 Watch Kerry travels to Cairo to help mediate Mideast conflict By PBS News Hour Chief foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Warner joins Judy Woodruff to discuss Secretary of State John Kerry’s game plan as he arrives in Cairo to work on cease-fire prospects between Israel and Hamas. Continue watching
Jul 21 Watch As death toll climbs, pressure builds for Mideast cease-fire By PBS News Hour More than 500 Palestinians and 27 Israelis have died in the conflict that began two weeks ago. Palestinians reported that Israeli tanks shelled a hospital, killing at least four. The Israelis say they are focused on destroying Hamas rockets and… Continue watching
Jul 21 Watch Will the MH17 disaster cause Putin to change course in Ukraine? By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jul 21 Watch Rebels allow MH17 bodies to leave crash site By PBS News Hour Four days after a Malaysia Airlines jet crashed in Ukraine, international teams are still seeking access to the rebel-controlled site. Neil Connery of Independent Television News reports on the drama over the fate of the victims’ bodies. Gwen Ifill examines… Continue watching
Jul 21 New food scandal hard to swallow for KFC, McDonald's in China By Andrew Troast McDonald’s and KFC in China are reeling from another food safety scare Monday after a local TV station reported that a supplier had been selling expired meat to the restaurants. Continue reading
Jul 21 Earth sees hottest June on record since 1880, NOAA says By Anna Christiansen The world’s heat record was broken for a second consecutive month. With the exception of Antarctica, new temperature highs were recorded on every continent. Continue reading
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