May 14 Watch Morganza Spillway Is Opened on Mississippi River Morganza Spillway Is Opened on Mississippi River… Continue watching
May 14 Morganza Spillway Opened on Mississippi River in Bid to Protect Cities From Flooding By News Desk Engineers slowly opened a massive floodgate on the Mississippi River in Louisiana Saturday in an attempt to divert surging floodwaters from heavily populated areas in New Orleans and Baton Rouge. EmbedVideo(571, 482, 304); The decision to open… Continue reading
May 13 Watch Security Presence in Bahrain Squashes Embers of Uprising Ray Suarez gets an update form Margaret Warner, who is reporting in the Bahraini capital, Manama. Continue watching
May 13 Watch From Syria to Yemen, Uprisings Continue to Rattle Arab World Rebel uprisings continued to shake the Arab world on Friday as thousands of people took to the streets to demand that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad step down. Ray Suarez reports. Continue watching
May 13 Taiwan, China and the United States:a Complicated Triangle Taipei 101 towers over Taiwan's skyline. Photo by Flickr user tylerdurden1 "Rashomon" may be Japanese -- not Chinese -- theater, but the relationships between mainland China, Taiwan and United States often seem to resemble the film's portrayal of various… Continue reading
May 13 Some Bright Spots Amid Worries in Japan’s Quake Recovery By Larisa Epatko This week, the first group of 100 people were allowed to return to their homes within the restricted zone circling the damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in Japan and retrieve some of their cherished possessions. Continue reading
May 13 Pakistani Taliban Claims Responsibility for Suicide Bombing Killing at Least 80 By News Desk A Pakistani soldier guards the site of a suicide bombing at a military training center in Shabqadar. Photo by A. Majeed/AFP/Getty Images. Two suicide bomb attacks at a paramilitary academy in northwest Pakistan have claimed at least 80 lives… Continue reading
May 13 Watch Army Corps of Engineers Navigates Miss. River Spillways In other news Friday, some 25,000 people in Louisiana were on notice that their homes could be inundated if the Army Corps of Engineers opens the Morganza Spillway. Continue watching
May 12 Watch U.S. Official: ‘Positive Developments’ in Bahrain Assistant Secretary of State Jeffrey Feltman on Bahrain lifting its state of emergency… Continue watching
May 12 Watch Pakistan Microlending Program Looks to Aid Women in Poverty Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on the program that focuses on women. Continue watching