Sep 27 $1 Billion Vaccine Push Aims to Protect Children in Poor Countries By Talea Miller A child receives a rotavirus vaccine. Photo by GAVI. An international alliance of private donors and governments has approved $1 billion for more than 30 developing countries to buy vaccines to protect against deadly childhood diseases. The money distributed by… Continue reading
Sep 27 Palestinians’ U.N. Statehood Bid: What Comes Next? By Larisa Epatko Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu both returned to their homelands as heroes after championing their causes at the U.N. General Assembly last week. But the euphoria has petered out. Continue reading
Sep 27 Greece Says it Will Receive Bailout Funds, Typhoon Lashes Philippines By News Desk Greece's finance minister, Evangelos Venizelos, has said his country will receive the next installment of bailout funds in order to avoid defaulting on its debt and further destabilizing the global financial market. Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou is in… Continue reading
Sep 26 Watch What Will Medvedev-Putin Swap Mean for U.S.-Russia Relations? Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announced plans to swap roles in 2012. Margeret Warner discusses what this move might mean for relations between the United States and Russia with Angela Stent of Georgetown University and Dmitri… Continue watching
Sep 26 Watch Russian Finance Minister Fired Over Criticism of Putin, Medvedev Job Swap Longtime Russian Finance Minister Alexeli Kudrin was fired Monday after he criticized the announcement that President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin plan to swap roles in 2012. Margret Warner reports. Continue watching
Sep 26 Remembering Wangari Maathai, First African Woman Nobel Peace Laureate Wangari Maathai, the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts to save Kenya's forests, died Sunday after a long battle with ovarian cancer. In 1977, Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement to plant trees in… Continue reading
Sep 26 Saudi Arabia: Women Can Vote, Starting in 2015 By Larisa Epatko Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah has granted women the right to vote and run in 2015 local elections and to be appointed to his advisory Shura Council, but some women's rights advocates are not satisfied. Continue reading
Sep 26 Rapid Testing Sharply Cuts HIV Patient Dropout Rate HIV clinic in Mozambique. Photo by Talea Miller. Every time an HIV clinic tells a patient to come back for more testing or for laboratory results there is a risk the patient will never return. This happens so frequently… Continue reading
Sep 26 World Week Ahead: U.N. Discusses Palestinians’ Bid; Gadhafi’s Hometown Under Siege By Larisa Epatko Palestinians handed the United Nations a bid for full membership on Friday, which the world body is expected to start discussing this week, while fighting continues in Libya and tensions escalate in Yemen after President Ali Abdullah Saleh's return. Continue reading
Sep 26 American Killed in Shooting in Kabul CIA Facility By News Desk An Afghan employee of the U.S. government shot and killed one American and wounded a second Sunday night in a facility attached to the U.S. Embassy that is believed to be used by the CIA. An embassy spokesman said… Continue reading