Oct 17 Profile: Illac Diaz Brings Clean, Cheap Light into Filipino Homes By Fred de Sam Lazaro Photo of Illac Diaz by Fred de Sam Lazaro/PBS NewsHour Filipino Illac Diaz began a project called Liter of Light to do two things in his home country: provide light to those who need it and recycle otherwise… Continue reading
Oct 17 Ask the Experts: Human Trafficking and What You Can Do By Larisa Epatko On Wednesday's NewsHour, special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reported on human trafficking in the Philippines, where people desperate to find work sometimes find themselves in vulnerable situations. Continue reading
Oct 17 Watch Agents for Change: Illac Diaz’s Lightbulb Moment Agents for Change: Illac Diaz's Lightbulb Moment… Continue watching
Oct 16 Watch Cuba Loosens Restrictions on Travel Abroad for Its Citizens Ray Suarez reports on Cuba's move to make foreign travel easier for its citizens. Starting in January, most Cubans will only need a passport and a visa from their destination country, though limitations will remain on professionals like doctors. While… Continue watching
Oct 16 Watch Experts Urge Candidates to Debate Foreign Policy Seriously, Not Play Blame Game Experts Urge Candidates to Debate Foreign Policy Seriously, Not Play Blame Game… Continue watching
Oct 16 Watch Cuba Changes Its Travel Law to Catch Up What’s Happening on the Ground Ray Suarez talks to Maria de Los Angeles Torres of the University of Illinois at Chicago about how different ideological factions in Cuba see the change and how they might debate the possible economic, cultural and security effects of the… Continue watching
Oct 15 Watch Rebels Choose to Work with Jihadists to Expedite Assad Ouster Rebels Choose to Work with Jihadists to Expedite Assad Ouster… Continue watching
Oct 15 U.S. Navy, Allies Find Less Than Half the Sea Mines Planted in Key Exercise By David Chalian Below the flight deck of the USS Enterprise, one of the aircraft carriers that participated in the mine hunting exercise in September. Photo by Dan Sagalyn A major international naval exercise last month in and around the Persian Gulf and… Continue reading
Oct 15 Colombian Government and FARC to Begin Formal Negotiations Relatives of missing people, kidnapped or forcibly recruited by the FARC demonstrate in Bogota days before formal peace negotiations between the guerrillas and the Colombian government in Oslo, Norway. Photo by Guillermo Legaria/AFP/GettyImages One of this year's most important political… Continue reading
Oct 15 Watch Islamists Fighting with Syrian Rebels Get Arms from Saudi Arabia and Qatar As airstrikes and battles continue to rage in Syria, more arms are getting into that country even as Turkey tightens its shared border. The New York Times reported that Saudi and Qatari weapons are in the hands of opposition fighters,… Continue watching