Nov 09 Watch Italy’s Debt Dilemma: Too Big to Fail and Too Big to Rescue? Jeffrey Brown discusses Italy's rapidly escalating debt crisis and the implications for the rest of the Eurozone with Il Sole's Mario Calvo-Platero and Bloomberg-BusinessWeek's Roben Farzad. Continue watching
Nov 09 Liberian President Poised to Win Re-election in Tense Runoff By Larisa Epatko Many Liberians and their friends in the West had hoped the country, once plagued by civil war, was continuing its march to democracy. But the presidential run-off election Tuesday has dashed some of those hopes as violence erupted and the… Continue reading
Nov 09 Somali Refugees Seek ‘New Normal’ in Ethiopian Camp Woman and child in malnutrition ward of hospital in Dolo Ado, Ethiopia. Photo by Nicole See. DOLO ADO, Ethiopia | The Hilaweyn refugee camp was set up just a few weeks ago and it already looks like any other… Continue reading
Nov 09 Italy’s Debt Rate Hits Record 7% Despite Word of Berlusconi Resignation By News Desk Roberto Maroni, Italy's interior minister, left, speaks with Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's prime minister, during a voting session on last year's budget report inside the Chamber of Deputies in Rome, Italy, on Tuesday. Photo by Alessia Pierdomenico/Bloomberg via Getty Images. One… Continue reading
Nov 08 Watch Journalist Goes Undercover to Report on Syrian Dissidents The Syrian government has stepped up its deadly crackdown on dissidents, only a week after agreeing to negotiate with them. Margret Warner discusses the violence with journalist Ramita Navai, who went undercover to embed with some of Syria's most-wanted dissidents. Continue watching
Nov 08 Watch Is Iran Capable of Developing Nuclear Weapons? The International Atomic Energy Agency has been trying for years to monitor the Iranian program and determine if it is trying to develop nuclear weapons. Ray Suarez discusses the agency's latest report with former U.N. weapons inspector David Albright. Continue watching
Nov 08 How a Little-Known Law Aims to Keep the Screws on Iran By Larisa Epatko In the days after the U.S. Embassy and its staffers were taken hostage in Tehran in 1979, the United States invoked an obscure law and declared Iran a threat to its national security. Thirty-two years later, amid a new U.N. Continue reading
Nov 08 U.N. Report Warns of Iran’s Nuclear Capability By News Desk Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks at the United Nations 2010 High-level Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons at U.N. headquarters May 3, 2010. Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images. Updated 3:25 p.m. ET:… Continue reading
Nov 07 Watch Gold Lures Illegal Miners to Peru’s Rainforests In southeastern Peru, where the Andes Mountains meet the Amazon, lies one of the world's richest ecosystems and the destructive lure of gold. In a collaboration with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, special correspondent Steve Sapienza reports on illegal… Continue watching
Nov 07 Ex-General Wins Run-off Election in Guatemala By News Desk Photo of Guatemalan president-elect Otto Perez Molina by Johan Ordonez/AFP/Getty Images. A high murder rate and drug gang violence drove Guatemalans to vote Sunday for a former military official who has vowed to put the army back on the streets. Continue reading