Feb 27 Watch How Widespread, Deep Are Anti-American Feelings in Afghanistan? How Widespread, Deep Are Anti-American Feelings in Afghanistan?… Continue watching
Feb 27 Senegal’s Two-Term President Wade Hopes to Win a Third Time By Larisa Epatko Senegal, a West African nation reputed as being one of the continent's most stable democracies, held presidential elections Sunday despite earlier violent protests by those angry the incumbent is seeking a third term. Continue reading
Feb 27 Russia Dispatch: Hand-in-Hand Against Putin’s Presidency Bid By Margaret Warner Protesters, including blogger Alexei Navalny (center), form a human chain in Moscow. Photo by Margaret Warner/PBS NewsHour. MOSCOW | Snow fell steadily all day, large fat flakes and light airy ones, but that didn't deter the thousands of Russians who… Continue reading
Feb 27 Watch News Wrap: Ousted Yemeni President Saleh to Seek Exile in Ethiopia In other news Monday, Syria's opposition reported as many as 138 deaths as new protests surfaced against the regime. The Syrian Red Crescent reached the besieged city of Homs and evacuated three people. Also, ousted President Ali Abdullah Saleh will… Continue watching
Feb 24 Author and Activist Elie Wiesel: Syria Is ‘a Bloody Center of History’ By Pierre de Saint Phalle Tunisia's Foreign Minister Rafik Abdessalem prepares to address the Friends of Syria Conference in Tunis, Tunisia, on Friday. Photo by Jason Reed/AFP/Getty Images. As Western and Arab leaders met in Tunisia on Friday to discuss how to handle the Syrian… Continue reading
Feb 24 Watch What Can ‘Friends of Syria’ Do to Help Halt Killings? As officials from more than 60 nations on Friday called on Syria's government to stop killings, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stressed that if the regime refused the delivery of humanitarian supplies, "it will have even more blood on its… Continue watching
Feb 24 Five Resources on Venezuela’s Youth Music Program ‘El Sistema’ By Larisa Epatko On Friday's NewsHour, education correspondent John Merrow reports on how an adaptation of a music program from Venezuela is playing out in the United States. Venezuela's national youth music program "El Sistema" has produced professional musicians, such as Los Angeles… Continue reading
Feb 24 Connecting to the Web: Freedom or Human Right? Mexican journalist Sergio Sarmiento listens as former FCC Chairman Reed Hundt speaks at the Tecnologico de Monterrey campus in Mexico City. Photo by Ray Suarez.MEXICO CITY | In January 1941, with the shadow of world war looming over the… Continue reading
Feb 24 Watch News Wrap: At Least 7 More Killed in Afghanistan Over Quran Burnings In other news Friday, at least seven more people were killed in Afghanistan over the burning of Qurans at a U.S. military base, making the death toll 20 since Tuesday. Also, the U.N. nuclear agency concluded Iran tripled its production… Continue watching
Feb 24 Watch In Tunisia, ‘Friends of Syria’ Call for Ceasefire, Assad to Step Down Officials from more than 60 nations met Friday, calling on Syria's President Bashar al-Assad to step down and for the government to stop killing its people. That would allow humanitarian supplies to be delivered and evacuations to begin in Homs,… Continue watching