Sep 24 Watch News Wrap: Brazil President Calls U.S. Spying on Allies 'Totally Unacceptable' In our news wrap Tuesday, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff rebuked U.S. spying programs in her address to the UN General Assembly. Leaked documents previously revealed the NSA intercepted Brazilian phone calls and emails. Also, for the first time former Pope… Continue watching
Sep 24 Watch Kenya Forces Faced Well-Prepared Attackers in Mall With Many Hiding Places While the Kenyan authorities have announced the end of the siege at a Nairobi mall, troops there still face work of clearing and searching the area. Judy Woodruff talks to Nicholas Kulish of The New York Times, who explains the… Continue watching
Sep 23 Life in lockdown near Kenya's besieged mall Smoke billows from the roof of the four-story Westgate shopping mall where a number of hostages have been kept for three days in Nairobi, Kenya. Photo by Ahmet Erkan Yigitsozlu/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images. The gunfire "sounded as if it were… Continue reading
Sep 23 Activist Malala Yousafzai tweets for education By Larisa Epatko NEW YORK -- Even though Malala Yousafzai, the young education activist who was shot by a member of the Taliban, started out as a blogger for the BBC, she normally doesn't tweet. But Monday afternoon, she typed her first 140-character… Continue reading
Sep 23 Watch Can Kenya Handle the Threat of a 'Much More Lethal' al-Shabab? Can Kenya Handle the Threat of a 'Much More Lethal' al-Shabab?… Continue watching
Sep 23 Watch Kenyan Foreign Minister Says 'Two or Three' Americans Involved in Mall Attack Kenyan Foreign Minister: Attack Strengthens Resolve to 'Uproot' al-Shabab… Continue watching
Sep 23 Watch Kenyan Government Claims It Has 'Control' in Deadly Standoff With al-Shabab Kenyan Government Claims It Has 'Control' in Deadly Standoff With al-Shabab… Continue watching
Sep 23 Background Briefing: What is al-Shabab? By Council on Foreign Relations Al-Shabab, or “the Youth,” is an al-Qaida-linked militant group and U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization fighting for the creation of a fundamentalist Islamic state in Somalia. Continue reading
Sep 23 25 dead after Usagi makes landfall in China .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%; }… Continue reading
Sep 23 Madeleine Albright joins Twitter Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright made her Twitter debut on Monday. By 10 a.m. ET, she already had more than 4,000 followers. Her profile reads, "Grateful American Czech immigrant, mother & grandmother, fmr SecState, passionate democrat, author, prof, bizwoman,… Continue reading