Sep 20 Watch Taliban’s Killing of Top Negotiator a ‘Clear Signal’ Against Peace Talks Burhanuddin Rabbani, a former Afghan president in charge of negotiating with the Taliban, was killed Tuesday by a suicide bomber posing as a peace envoy. Margaret Warner gets the latest details, reactions and information on the suspected perpetrators from Patrick… Continue watching
Sep 20 World’s Rising Powers Face Growing Economic Threat of Diabetes, Heart Disease Emerging powers like Brazil, Russia, China and India will face mounting health threats diabetes and other diseases. Photo by Flickr user ML_Duong NEW YORK | They are the new generation of economic powers, the nations whose economic growth put… Continue reading
Sep 20 Former Afghan President Assassinated by Suicide Bomber This picture taken in Kabul on June 2, 2010 shows former Afghan president Burhanuddin Rabbani attending a press conference. Photo by Shah Marai/AFP/Getty Images. Former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani and four of his bodyguards were killed when a suicide… Continue reading
Sep 20 USAID Chief: Somalia Must ‘Stop Standing in the Way’ of Aid By Larisa Epatko NEW YORK CITY | The U.S. Agency for International Development announced a new website initiative called "Forward" this week aimed at giving viewers a better sense of the scope of the famine in the Horn of Africa -- its worst… Continue reading
Sep 20 Greece Moves to Avert Default, Car Bomb Kills 3 in Ankara, Turkey In the face of a persistent debt crisis and fears of imminent default, Greek officials are meeting with the International Monetary Fund and other European nations again Tuesday in an effort to secure more bailout funds and assure creditors… Continue reading
Sep 19 Watch Amid Yemen’s Renewed Violence, ‘It’s Unclear Who Is in Charge of Things’ Dozens of people have been reported killed in Yemen since Sunday as pro-regime forces crack down on protesters demanding President Ali Abdullah Saleh's goverment leave office. Christopher Boucek of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace speaks with Ray Suarez about… Continue watching
Sep 19 Watch Zoellick: Eurozone’s Fate Immediately at Stake; U.S. Needs to Address Spending Markets on Monday continued to show anxiety over the European debt crisis as Greece held an emergency conference with creditors, trying to calm fears of default. Speaking with Judy Woodruff, World Bank President Robert Zoellick urged eurozone nations to make… Continue watching
Sep 19 Young Photographer Documents Egypt’s Revolution By Extra DA Eighteen-year-old Egyptian student and photographer Yasser Alaa has been documenting his country's recent revolution from behind the lens of a camera, most recently attending protests that sprang up after the country's longtime dictator, Hosni Mubarak, stepped down. Continue reading
Sep 19 Tab for Non-Communicable Diseases to Top $47 Trillion by 2030 Testing blood pressure. Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images. The escalating epidemic of non-communicable diseases could could cost the world $47 trillion over the next two decades, according to a report published Monday as United Nations representatives open a two-day,… Continue reading
Sep 19 World Week Ahead: Palestinian Statehood Bid; New Fighting in Yemen By News Desk United Nations headquarters. Photo by Joao Araujo/U.N. via Flickr Creative Commons. World leaders meet this week in New York City at the 66th session of the U.N. General Assembly, where Palestinian officials plan to file a bid for U.N. Continue reading