Jul 06 Watch Libya Prepares for First Free Elections After Gadhafi Regime For the first time in nearly 50 years, Libyans will go to the polls on Saturday to vote for a new parliamentary government. Lindsey Hilsum of Independent Television News reports on the excitement in that country, nine months after the… Continue watching
Jul 06 Were More Than 3,000 Heat Records Actually Set in June? Here at the NewsHour, the record heat has hit close to home. Our managing editor Tom Kennedy, for example, spent six of the last nine days of 95-degree-plus heat without power. The thermostat peaked at 90 degrees inside his Maryland… Continue reading
Jul 06 Syria's Turncoat General Could Embolden Assad's Enemies By P. J. Tobia The drip of defections by forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime over the past few weeks is beginning to look like a steady stream. France confirmed Friday that Brig. Gen. Manaf Tlass, the leader of an elite army… Continue reading
Jul 06 Libya's Oil Industry Defies Expectations By News Desk Stable elections could mean more foreign investment for Libya's already valuable oil industry. Continue reading
Jul 06 The Upside of a Nuclear-Armed Iran: A Chat With Kenneth Waltz By P. J. Tobia Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (center) visits the Natanz uranium enrichment facilities in 2008. Photo by the Office of the Presidency of the Islamic Republic of Iran via Getty Images. Among a certain group of international relations and foreign affairs… Continue reading
Jul 05 Watch Report Blames Japanese Government for Nuclear Meltdown The day Japan reintroduced nuclear power to its electrical grid, an independent commission found the Japanese government at fault for the Fukushima nuclear reactor meltdown last year. Continue watching
Jul 05 In Libya, Expectations High as Parliamentary Vote Approaches By Larisa Epatko On Saturday, Libyans will vote for the first time since the ouster of dictator Moammar Gadhafi -- the first free parliamentary election in more than 40 years. Continue reading
Jul 05 Why a U.S. Circumcision Push Failed in Swaziland In the country with the highest HIV infection rate in the world, a U.S. effort to circumcise 80 percent of all men aged 15 to 49 in a year ended with roughly a quarter undergoing the procedure. What went wrong?… Continue reading
Jul 05 Watch Power Outages Linger in Storms' Aftermath Six days after fierce storms hit numerous mid-Atlantic states, more than 500,000 people still remained without power. Also, Pakistan reopened routes to Afghanistan after having closed them for seven months, and the first trucks rumbled through Thursday. Continue watching