Dec 06 What Makes Recent Attacks on Shiites in Afghanistan So Unusual? By Larisa Epatko Afghanistan saw the worst sectarian violence since the Taliban's fall from power when two suicide bombers struck Shiite Muslims celebrating the holy day of Ashura on Tuesday. Continue reading
Dec 06 Watch Protesters Allege Manipulation, Rigging in Russia’s Parliamentary Elections Protests in Russia continued for a second day Tuesday over Sunday's parliamentary elections. The ruling United Russia party received nearly 50 percent of the vote, but protesters allege vote-rigging and manipulation skewed the results. Jonathan Rugman of Independent Television News… Continue watching
Dec 05 Watch What Would Deficit Limits Mean for Eurozone, Future of Euro? For a look at the tough week ahead for the eurozone and its leaders, Jeffrey Brown is joined by Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff, senior director for strategy at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. Continue watching
Dec 05 Watch After String of Disasters, Aid Organizations Struggle to Meet Demands Private aid organizations are struggling to maintain their funding levels for relief efforts in the wake of multiple crises around the world. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on the trend as part of the Under-Told Stories project. Continue watching
Dec 05 What’s Souring Russian Voters’ Views of the Ruling Party? By Larisa Epatko The failure of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's once-dominant political party to eke out a majority in Russian parliamentary elections over the weekend shows a growing disillusionment with the country's problems with the economy and corruption, some analysts say. Continue reading
Dec 02 American’s Abduction in Pakistan Reveals Growing Trend By Larisa Epatko The August kidnapping of Warren Weinstein, an American aid worker in Pakistan, came into the spotlight again this week when al-Qaida announced it has him in custody. His abduction is nothing new in the security-challenged country and marks a growing… Continue reading
Dec 02 Tunisian Leader Comes to Washington, Preaches Moderate Political Islam Tunisia's Ennhada Islamist party leader Rachid Ghannouchi (left) during a visit to Algeria on Nov. 20. Photo by Farouk Batiche/AFP/Getty Images. Rachid Ghannouchi, head of the Tunisian Ennhada Party which captured the majority of that country's parliamentary seats in… Continue reading
Dec 02 Man with a Mission: Anna Hazare’s Anti-corruption Campaign in India By Larisa Epatko Long ago, an activist from a small village in western India went on hunger strikes to improve his community. Now, at age 74, he is hoping to bring about change on a national scale by pressuring the government to adopt… Continue reading
Dec 01 Watch For ‘Soldiers’ in Mexico’s Drug War, ‘More Murders Than They Can Count’ The death toll continues to mount in Mexico's drug war. Hari Sreenivasan and Ioan Grillo of GlobalPost discuss his new book "El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency," an account of his more than 10 years investigating the country's criminal cartels. Continue watching
Dec 01 Watch Obama, Clinton Have ‘a Lot at Risk’ in Delicate Relationship With Burma Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited the Southeast Asian nation of Burma on Thursday. Margaret Warner discusses the significance of the isolated country's first visit by a U.S. secretary of state in 50 years with William Wan of The Washington… Continue watching