Jan 09 Watch Pentagon Signals ‘This Is Not the Point of No Return for Iran’ U.S.-Iranian tensions are further on the rise amid revelations over Iran's nuclear program, threats over the Strait of Hormuz and an American's death sentence. Margaret Warner discusses how the two countries are dealing with each other with The New York… Continue watching
Jan 09 Haiti Dispatch: 2 Years After Earthquake, Many Signs of Rebuilding By Larisa Epatko PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti | On Jan. 12, 2010, a magnitude-7 earthquake rocked Haiti, killing some 223,000 people and leaving 1.5 million homeless. On a visit last week to the capital, signs of rebuilding are everywhere. Continue reading
Jan 09 Haiti Earthquake: Two Years Later By Larisa Epatko Two years after the Jan. 12, 2010 earthquake devastated much of Haiti, signs of recovery abound in Port-au-Prince -- from people busily removing debris to bustling marketplaces and blaring music. Continue reading
Jan 09 Watch News Wrap: White House Chief of Staff Steps Down; Bombings in Iraq In other news Monday, President Obama announced White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley's resignation. Daley had been in the position for a year, and will be succeeded by Jacob Lew, the president's current budget director. Also, a court martial… Continue watching
Jan 05 Watch News Wrap: Another Wave of Bombings in Iraq Kills at Least 78 In other news Thursday, another wave of bombings struck in Iraq, killing at least 78 people. It was the second such coordinated attack since U.S. troops left the country last month. Also, the government of Myanmar announced that the party… Continue watching
Jan 04 Watch What Have Sanctions Done to Iran’s Economy, People? European Union nations reportedly agreed in principle Wednesday to ban imports of Iranian oil. Margaret Warner discusses mounting tensions between Iran and the West with Haleh Esfandiari of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and Karim Sadjadpour of the… Continue watching
Jan 04 Watch Hurt in Libya’s Revolution, Some Rebels Being Treated in Boston Area A group of 22 Libyan men who were wounded while fighting against the Gaddafi regime in last year's war have been recovering here in the U.S., at a hospital on Boston's North Shore. Jared Bowen of WGBH-TV Boston reports. Continue watching
Jan 03 Biggest Story of 2011: Arab Spring or Fall of Democratic Stability? The U.S. Capitol. Photo by Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images. As the weighty foreign policy journals weigh in with their year-end editions, there's a surprising result: far less about the implications of the Arab Spring and more about the economic and… Continue reading
Jan 03 Are Syrian Spies Operating on U.S. Soil? UPDATE Jan. 12. We post a special report with a series of audio, text and video responses from Syrian Americans who responded to our Public Insight Network query. UPDATE Jan. 9: Newshour Correspondent Hari Sreenivasan hosted a live… Continue reading
Jan 03 Watch Are Syrian Spies Keeping Tabs on Opposition Activists in U.S.? Are Syrian spies are operating in the United States, keeping tabs on Syrian-Americans?… Continue watching