Nov 15 One Mother’s Story of Teen Pregnancy in Nicaragua By Paul Solman MANAGUA, Nicaragua - Marling del Socorro Valverdi balances a restless baby on her hip as she tries to attach yards of red and green crepe paper to a drab newsprint pinata shell. In the Valverdi family, pinata sales equal dinner… Continue reading
Nov 14 Watch As Arab Pressure Intensifies on Syria, What’s Next for Assad? The Arab League voted overwhelmingly on Saturday to suspend Syria's membership in an effort to further pressure President Bashar al Assad to stop the crackdown on dissidents. Margaret Warner discusses the growing frustration with Syria with The Atlantic Council's Michele… Continue watching
Nov 14 Watch Somali Refugees Flee to Ethiopia to Escape Famine, Violence Kenyan troops have been drawn into the civil war in Somalia between the government and al-Shabab militants as desperate refugees flee to Ethiopia to escape violence and famine. Special Correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports from a refugee camp near… Continue watching
Nov 14 Rio Security Forces Storm Major Slum Police invaded Rio de Janeiro's largest slum Sunday, part of a larger effort aimed at cleaning up favelas before the 2014 World Cup. Continue reading
Nov 11 France, Britain Remember End to Bloody World War Soldiers return home to New York City, ca. 1919. (National Archives) Updated Nov. 11, 2011: Because their casualties from World War I so overwhelm those suffered by U.S. forces in their 20 months in the conflict, many European nations… Continue reading
Nov 11 Slide Show: Children in Nicaragua Up Against Difficult Odds By Talea Miller Eight-month-old Kesler is one of those infectiously happy babies who giggles at everything, even when his mother is scolding him for being too loud. Kesler lives with his mother, Delma Marina Sala, in a one-room, tin-roofed home outside of Managua,… Continue reading
Nov 11 ‘One Day on Earth’ Film Project Builds Worldwide Virtual Community By Larisa Epatko Friday is 11/11/11, and the minds behind the documentary and online video archive known as "One Day on Earth" are hoping thousands of people around the world will film a moment in their lives this day. Continue reading
Nov 11 Italy Passes Austerity Bill, New Greek PM Names Cabinet Newly appointed prime minister Lucas Papademos leaves the Greek Presidential palace in Athens on November 10, 2011. Photo by Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP/Getty Images. Italy's senate passed a bill to usher in a series of austerity measures in an attempt to… Continue reading
Nov 10 At APEC Summit, Blending Economic Strategy and Ensemble By Larisa Epatko A week after Europe's economic woes dominated the G20 summit in France, a different collection of world leaders meet in Hawaii, where they hope to strengthen ties among Asia and the Pacific region's fast-growing markets, from China to Chile. Continue reading
Nov 10 APEC Attire Through the Years By Larisa Epatko One of the traditions of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit is a group photo in which world leaders don matching outfits from ponchos to pastel silk jackets. We display some of them here. Continue reading