Dec 09 Weather’s Dozen: 2011 Breaks U.S. Billion-Dollar Disaster Record An evacuation sign asks residents to leave Eagar, Ariz. as the Wallow Fire swept through Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. Photo by Eric Thayer/Getty Images. Between fires, twisters, hurricanes, droughts and floods, 2011 has been Mother Nature's most continuously… Continue reading
Dec 09 Weather’s Dozen: 2011 Breaks U.S. Billion-Dollar Disaster Record By Elizabeth Shell Between fires, twisters, hurricanes, droughts and floods, 2011 has been Mother Nature's most continuously whopping year for the United States. Data released by NOAA now counts a record of 12 disasters passing the $1 billion mark in 2011 -- smashing… Continue reading
Dec 09 Nations Address Internet Freedom as Users, and Restrictions, Grow By Larisa Epatko Twenty-two countries gathered in The Hague this week to pledge their support for Internet freedoms around the world, but governments, companies and bloggers alike pointed to a host of problems facing Internet users and providers. Continue reading
Dec 09 Britain Refuses to Join Euro Pact British Prime Minister David Cameron. File photo by Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images. In one of their most famous clashes during World War II, Winston Churchill told Charles de Gaulle, "Each time [Britain] must choose between Europe and the open sea,… Continue reading
Dec 08 The Daily Frame Kosho Sudo, a Buddhist sculpture master craftsman from Kyoto, Japan, and students carve a statue of Buddha earlier this week. The Buddha is made of pine from Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, which was hit by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. Continue reading
Dec 07 Watch Syria’s Assad Denies Ordering Deadly Crackdown as Sanctions Drive Down Currency Syria's President Bashar al-Assad denied in a Wednesday interview that he ordered a deadly crackdown on protesters. Jeffrey Brown speaks with NPR's Deborah Amos, reporting from Beirut, about how the interview will be viewed inside Syria, the state of the… Continue watching
Dec 07 In Egypt, a ‘Real Street Fight’ as Parties Try to Win the Upper Hand By Larisa Epatko Egypt's top two Islamist parties -- the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafists -- are squaring off in runoff elections this week. "Now we have a real street fight in the precincts," says Charles Sennott, executive editor of GlobalPost. "Who puts… Continue reading
Dec 07 Watch Egyptians Look to Next Phase of Democracy Charles Sennott of GlobalPost describes the latest round of voting in Egypt. Continue watching
Dec 07 Watch In Japan, Tsunami-Hit Town Still Abandoned, Barren The March earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan killed 2,000 people in the town of Minamisanriku, leaving it flattened and abandoned. Independent Television News' Alex Thomson reported from there soon after the disaster and returned last month. Continue watching
Dec 06 Watch War-Torn Afghanistan Suffers Worst Sectarian Violence in Years After twin suicide bombings killed dozens of Shiite worshipers Tuesday in Afghanistan, a Sunni militant group in Pakistan claimed responsibility. Afghanistan's worst sectarian violence in years happened a day after a major conference in Germany about stabilizing the country. Judy… Continue watching