Jul 11 Watch Building Relationships With Afghan Counterparts Building Relationships With Afghan Counterparts… Continue watching
Jul 11 USAID Official Responds to Criticism of Money Spent in Afghanistan By David Chalian Afghan workers carry a montage of photographs through a renovated park in Kabul on May 10, 2012. Photo by Bay Ismoyo/AFP/Getty Images. An international donors' conference in Tokyo over the weekend highlighted the continued demands on Afghanistan to end corruption… Continue reading
Jul 11 Watch Was Progress in Afghanistan Measured by Money Spent? Was Progress in Afghanistan Measured by Money Spent?… Continue watching
Jul 11 Bridging Belfast's Divided Catholic and Protestant Communities By David Waters A Catholic family walks along the Ardoyne Road to Holy Cross Girls Primary School in north Belfast in September 2001, shielded by security forces after violence flared that year. Photo by Adrian Dennis/AFP/Getty Images. Belfast's Ardoyne Road is a street… Continue reading
Jul 10 Watch Extreme Weather Records 'Like a Baseball Player on Steroids' As temperatures soared past 110 degrees in some states and thunderstorms pummeled the deep South, raising fears of flooding, a new report says climate change has likely influenced the odds of extreme weather. Judy interviews Thomas Karl, director of NOAA's… Continue watching
Jul 10 Watch News Wrap: Eurozone Agrees to Spain Bailout Package; Oil Prices Fall In other news Tuesday, Spain will get its first bailout payment of more than $36 billion before the end of the month. In early trading on Wall Street, stocks moved higher, but gains were erased by falling oil prices. Continue watching
Jul 09 Watch Nuclear-Armed Iran Would Bring 'Stability' But Risks John Mearsheimer, political science professor at the University of Chicago, says a nuclear-armed Iran would bring stability to the region, but Dov Zakheim, former Pentagon official now with the Center for Naval Analyses, says it would trigger an arms race. Continue watching
Jul 09 South Sudan's Independence Gets a 'Rocky' Start By Larisa Epatko In the year since South Sudan became an independent country, it has seen violent flare-ups between ethnic groups and a financial squeeze brought on by its decision to cut off oil to its northern neighbor, Sudan. Continue reading
Jul 09 Watch News Wrap: Taliban Attack Kills Six U.S. Troops in Afghanistan In other news Monday, a roadside bomb in Afghanistan's Wardek province killed six U.S. troops. Also, former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan said he has negotiated with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad an "approach" to end the violent conflict in that… Continue watching
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