Dec 16 First high school to close in Fukushima region due to nuclear meltdown Shoei High School will be the first school in the Fukushima Prefecture to permanently close at the end of March 2014. The high school is around 13.67 miles outside of the nuclear plant. Continue reading
Dec 16 UN calls for largest aid amount yet in Syrian crisis By Larisa Epatko The United Nations and other aid organizations are calling on international donors to pony up $6.5 billion to help Syrians inside and outside the country -- their largest appeal yet in Syria's nearly three-year-old civil war. Continue reading
Dec 16 Two Guantanamo detainees released to Saudi Arabia By News Desk The Defense Department announced Monday that it released two prisoners from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the government of Saudi Arabia -- part of its ongoing effort to process detainees and eventually close the U.S. facility in Cuba. Continue reading
Dec 15 One year since the brutal New Delhi gang rape, has change come to India? Indian protesters shout anti-government slogans during a protest against rape in New Delhi on January 2, 2013. Credit: RAVEENDRAN/AFP/Getty Images Tomorrow marks the one-year anniversary of the gruesome gang rape of an Indian woman on a bus in New Delhi. Continue reading
Dec 15 Watch Envisioning a South Africa without Mandela Now that Nelson Mandela has been buried what lies ahead for South Africa? Marcus Mabry, editor at large for the New York Times and formerly Newsweek's Johannesburg Bureau Chief on what South Africa will be like without Mandela. Continue watching
Dec 14 Watch Mandela's memorial service By News Desk South African freedom fighter Nelson Mandela died Dec. 5. Updated Dec. 16 | Nelson Mandela was buried in his hometown of Qunu in southeastern South Africa on Sunday in a ceremony that was a mixture of tribal traditions… Continue reading
Dec 14 One year after Newtown, have your views on gun control, mental health changed? By News Desk Photo by Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images It was one year ago today when reports came in of a shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn. By the end of that day, 20 children and seven adults --including the shooter's… Continue reading
Dec 13 Watch Does North Korea's purge signal rising instability? Will the execution of Kim Jong Un's uncle, the high-level North Korean official Jang Song Thaek, lead to intensified internal repression? Judy Woodruff gets analysis from Sung-Yoon Lee of Tufts University and Robert Carlin, co-author of "The Two Koreas: A… Continue watching
Dec 13 Watch North Korea executes high-level official, charging leader's uncle was a traitor North Korea executes high-level official, charging leader's uncle was a traitor… Continue watching
Dec 13 Watch Disappearance of CIA contractor Levinson in Iran caused agency shake-up Disappearance of CIA contractor Levinson in Iran caused agency shake-up… Continue watching