Oct 13 Mexican Drug Cartels’ New Target: Bloggers By Larisa Epatko The mutilated bodies of two bloggers were hung from a passenger overpass in the Mexican border town of Nuevo Laredo last month, with a sign attached saying, "This will happen to all Internet busy bodies."… Continue reading
Oct 13 Slow Rebuilding, Rising Prices Compound Haiti Quake Woes By Larisa Epatko More than a year and a half after Haiti suffered a catastrophic earthquake, about 500,000 Haitians still live in tent camps in and around the capital Port-au-Prince, much of which still lies in ruins. Continue reading
Oct 13 Lee Visits White House on Heels of South Korea Trade Deal By News Desk 1:10 p.m. ET | In a joint news conference, President Obama and President Lee also touched on the two nations' military alliance, emphasizing the need for North Korea to halt its nuclear arms program. President Obama called it a "direct… Continue reading
Oct 12 Watch Novelist Alaa Al Aswany on Surprising Changes in the Egyptian People Egyptian novelist and dentist Alaa al Aswany speaks with Margret Warner about the surprising changes in political behavior of his countrymen amid the revolution earlier this year, and how the new Egypt is taking shape. Continue watching
Oct 12 Watch News Wrap: Secretary Clinton Condemns Iran Over Terror Plot in U.S. In other news Wednesday, the U.S. stepped up a diplomatic assault on Iran over an alleged plot to kill the Saudi ambassador to Washington. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton condemned Iran in unusually strong terms. Also in Detroit, a Nigerian… Continue watching
Oct 12 Foreign Aid Advocates Fight Cuts to Programs That ‘Save Lives’ Food assistance headed to Libya. Photo by USAID. As annual budget decisions loom on Capitol Hill, international development advocates are pushing back against more proposed cuts to foreign aid. Aid programs took a hit earlier this year-- $8 billion was… Continue reading
Oct 12 U.S. Imposes Sanctions Over Alleged Iran Terror Plot By News Desk 1:20 p.m. ET | The United States has imposed sanctions on Mahan Air, an airline it says was used to transport operatives connected to an alleged terror plot against the Saudi ambassador in Washington. On Wednesday Secretary of State… Continue reading
Oct 11 Watch Abdulmutallab May Not Talk Much in ‘Underwear Bomber’ Trial The trial of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who is charged with trying to detonate explosives hidden in underwear on a Detroit-bound flight on Christmas Day 2009, began Tuesday. Gwen Ifill discusses the opening day of the case with WDET Public Radio's… Continue watching
Oct 11 Watch Is Iran’s Regime Capable of Attacks Inside U.S.? Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday that Iran is behind a terror plot in the U.S. that targeted Saudi Arabia's ambassador to Washington and possibly two embassies. Jeffrey Brown discusses the alleged scheme and the Iranian political landscape with The… Continue watching
Oct 11 ‘Women, War and Peace’ Challenges Notions of Conflict By Saskia de Melker // A new series from WNET challenges the notion that war and peace are domains dominated by men. In each of the five hour-long episodes, 'Women, War, and Peace' highlights a different area of the world where women are… Continue reading