Oct 23 Watch News Wrap: Germany's Merkel phones Obama to complain about U.S. spying In our news wrap Wednesday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel made a direct call to President Obama to address reports that the NSA may have monitored her cellphone conversations. Also, the president met with Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif at the… Continue watching
Oct 22 Watch Changing relations with Mideast allies may affect U.S. position in the region Changing relations with Mideast allies may affect U.S. position in the region… Continue watching
Oct 22 Watch Is U.S. being transparent enough about civilian deaths from drone strikes? Is the U.S. being transparent enough about civilian deaths from drone strikes?… Continue watching
Oct 22 White House responds to reports that U.S. drone strikes violated human rights law Photo by Flickr user Farrukh Updated 3:45 p.m. | White House spokesman Jay Carney responded to two reports released by human rights groups Tuesday morning that questioned the legality of the U.S. drone strikes in… Continue reading
Oct 22 Australian firefighters brace for worst As weather conditions worsen, a firefighter works to manage advancing fires in the Blue Mountains in southeastern Australia. Photo by William West/AFP/Getty Images Fire crews in New South Wales, Australia, deliberately merged two massive blazes near the Blue Mountains west… Continue reading
Oct 22 In Brunei, relatively high standard of living now comes with death by stoning Brunei Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah announced Tuesday the phased introduction of tough Islamic punishments, including death by stoning, for crimes such as adultery in the monarchy's latest step towards conservatism. Photo by Dean Kassim/AFP/Getty Images. The sultan of Brunei announced… Continue reading
Oct 22 Watch Saudi perception of U.S. inaction in Syria strains historically close relations America's approach to the Syrian war is one of the factors contributing to a rift in U.S.-Saudi relations, a divide that became public recently when Saudi Arabia declined membership on the UN Security Council. Jeffrey Brown reports on why Saudi… Continue watching
Oct 22 Watch News Wrap: Syrian opposition forces demand Assad be excluded from new government In our news wrap Tuesday, efforts to begin Syrian peace talks were obstructed by conditions laid down by the Western-backed Syrian National Coalition, including that President Bashar al-Assad must be excluded from any new government. Also, the Southeast Asian nation… Continue watching
Oct 21 What giving birth to a tropical depression looks like .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 2.25%; padding-top: 30px; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; height: auto; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; } The thirteenth tropical depression of… Continue reading
Oct 21 The smog in this giant Chinese city is so bad, it shut everything down A man stands next to an airplane amid heavy smog in Harbin, the capital of China's northeast Heilongjiang province. Photo by AFP/Getty Images Heavy smog blanketed the China's northern city of Harbin on Monday with air pollution measuring… Continue reading