Oct 19 South Kordofan’s Displaced Seek Refuge in Caves By Larisa Epatko Fighting between the northern army in Sudan and rebel fighters in Southern Kordofan along the border of South Sudan has driven about 150,000 people from their homes. They now live in caves for shelter and safety. Continue reading
Oct 19 India’s Growth Held Back by Overpopulation The population gap between rising economic powers India and Brazil is on display in the countries' largest cities. Continue reading
Oct 19 Turkish Forces Pursue Insurgents Near Iraq Border By News Desk Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses journalists during a press conference in Ankara on Wednesday, hours after Kurdish rebels killed 24 Turkish soldiers. Photo by Adem Altan/AFP/Getty Images. Updated at 11:20 a.m. ET with statement from President Obama: Turkish… Continue reading
Oct 18 Watch Amid Chaos, ‘Libya Needs to Start on a Process of State Building’ As Libya struggles for stability, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday urged its transitional government to commit to a democratic path forward without reprisals. Margret Warner discusses what has and hasn't been accomplished in creating a new state with… Continue watching
Oct 18 Watch Will Shalit-Palestinian Swap Change Long-Term Middle East Peace Strategy? A prisoner swap between Israel and Hamas on Tuesday freed more than 1,000 prisoners, including Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. Gwen Ifill discusses the swap and its possible effects on longer-term Middle East peace strategy with Daniel Levy of the New… Continue watching
Oct 18 Study: Experimental Vaccine Cuts Malaria Cases in Half Child with severe malaria in Tanzania. Photo by Talea Miller/NewsHour. For the first time, Phase III results of an experimental malaria vaccine showed significant protection against the deadly disease, raising hopes that a vaccine could be in use… Continue reading
Oct 18 Israeli Soldier Freed After Five Years in Prisoner Swap By News Desk In this handout photo provided by the Israeli Defense Force, freed Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit walks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Tel Nof Airbase on Tuesday. Photo by IDF via Getty Images. After being held for more than… Continue reading
Oct 17 Slide Show: The 8 Most Dangerous Countries for Journalists By Larisa Epatko Pakistan, Iraq, Libya and Mexico top the list of places considered the most dangerous for journalists to work, according to a list recently released by the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers. Continue reading
Oct 17 8 Most Deadly Countries for Journalists By Larisa Epatko The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers monitors the deaths of journalists related to their work all around the world and recently released its list for 2011 to date. We illustrate some of the top countries here. Continue reading
Oct 17 Occupy Wall Street Movement Expands to International Cities By Saskia de Melker Following weeks of protests in New York and other cities in the United States, demonstrators took to the streets in locations around the world in similarly fashioned protests over the weekend, resulting in hundreds of arrests. Continue reading