Apr 12 Watch State Secretary Kerry Warns North Korea Against Testing More Missiles Secretary of State John Kerry made a visit to Seoul to meet with South Korean President Park Geun-hye, where he leveled a warning to North Korea's Kim Jong Un not to continue missile tests. Jeffrey Brown reports on recent tensions… Continue watching
Apr 11 Watch Book Traces History and Decline of Political Power as Power of 'No' Rises Book Traces History and Decline of Political Power as Power of 'No' Rises… Continue watching
Apr 11 Author Moises Naim on Kim Jong Un's Troubles By Larisa Epatko In a continuation of his broadcast interview with the PBS NewsHour's Ray Suarez, author and former Foreign Policy editor Moises Naim talks about North Korea's Kim Jong Un challenge to hold power in a world where democracies seem to be… Continue reading
Apr 10 Watch 'Cubans Want to Fly': Dissident Reflects on Freedom and Oppression 'Cubans Want to Fly': Dissident Reflects on Freedom and Oppression… Continue watching
Apr 09 Watch Filmmaker Captures Life for Syrians Whose World Has Been Blown Apart Filmmaker Captures Life for Syrians Whose World Has Been Blown Apart… Continue watching
Apr 09 Babbling Sounds of Monkeys Share Rhythms with Human Speech A gelada baboon in Simien Mountains National Park, Ethiopia. Photo by A. Davey via Flickr. Scientists studying the evolution of speech have long puzzled over why there are no good models in primates. While primates share many traits with… Continue reading
Apr 09 Ten Years After Baghdad's Fall, a Look Back at the Iraq War By Justin Scuiletti // Watch a video synopsis of the Iraq war. Edited by Justin Scuiletti. (Warning: Some video footage is graphic.) On March 17, 2003, President George W. Bush addressed the nation: "All the decades of deceit and cruelty have now reached… Continue reading
Apr 08 Watch A Battle to Preserve the Berlin Wall as Cold War Landmark In Germany, a fight is on about protecting what remains of a Cold War landmark: the Berlin Wall. For 28 years, the wall separated East and West Germany as a way of keeping East Germans from fleeing. Independent producers Carl… Continue watching
Apr 08 World Reaction to Margaret Thatcher's Death in Tributes and Tweets By Larisa Epatko World leaders paid tribute to former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on the day of her death Monday, calling her a "formidable" leader and "champion of freedom and liberty." Other comments showed the controversy surrounding some of her decisions. Continue reading
Apr 08 Syria's Displaced Battle Disease, Lack of Sanitation EmbedVideo(6142, 482, 304); Two years of civil war in Syria have killed tens of thousands and uprooted more than 4 million. It is a growing humanitarian crisis that shows no signs of abating. At least 3 million of… Continue reading