Sep 11 Upcoming Votes Test European Debt Crisis Response A worker in Utrecht, the Netherlands, hangs a poster of one of the parties taking part in Wednesday's Dutch parliamentary elections. Photo by Jasper Juinen/Getty Images. Updated on Sept. 12: Germany's Federal Constitutional Court on Wednesday gave the green… Continue reading
Sep 11 Watch News Wrap: Yemeni Defense Minister Narrowly Escapes Death in Car Bomb Explosion In other news Tuesday, a car bomb intended for Yemen's defense minister Mohammed Nasser Ahmed narrowly missed its intended target, but killed eight bodyguards and five civilians in the process. Ahmed has been targeted most likely for his role in… Continue watching
Sep 10 Watch Kwame Holman Reports from the White House: Teachers, Iran Kwame Holman Reports from the White House: Teachers, Iran Top Briefing… Continue watching
Sep 10 Watch Democracy Still Fragile in Iraq, Where Sectarian Tensions Reach Breaking Point Bridging Sectarian Divides Among Iraq's Majority Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds… Continue watching
Sep 10 Iraqi VP Death Sentence Hints at Wider Sunni-Shia Conflict Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi speaks to reporters after a meeting with the leader of Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan in Istanbul, Turkey, on April 19. Photo by Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images. The fugitive Iraqi vice president sentenced to death Sunday on… Continue reading
Sep 10 Street Fight in Syria By Larisa Epatko Anti-government fighters in the Noor Den al-Zenke batallion clashed with government forces in Aleppo, leaving several rebels dead. Tracey Shelton of GlobalPost took these photos. Continue reading
Sep 10 On Location in Syria: Life and Death in the Streets of Aleppo By News Desk Tracey Shelton of GlobalPost, who has been reporting from Syria, filed the following description of a clash between rebel and government forces on Sept. 1 in Aleppo, a city that has become one of the frontlines in the conflict:… Continue reading
Sep 10 Watch Iraq’s Sunni Vice President Says Death Sentence is Politically Motivated Iraq's Sunni vice president, Tariq al-Hashemi, was sentenced to death in absentia by an Iraqi court for overseeing death squads which killed government officials and opposition leaders from 2006 to 2011. From exile in Turkey, Hashemi reaffirmed his innocence and… Continue watching
Sep 07 Watch News Wrap: Pair of Bombings Strike Separate Parts of Damascus News Wrap: Pair of Bombings Strike Separate Parts of Damascus… Continue watching
Sep 07 Disputes in Asia Pacific Pits China Against Its Neighbors By Jeremy Blackman A Philippine soldier stands guard next to fishing boats at a pier in Masinloc town, Zambales province on May 18. Protesters planned to use the boats to get to the disputed Scarborough Shoal. Photo by Ted Aljibe/AFP/GettyImages. Secretary of State… Continue reading