Nov 08 How a Little-Known Law Aims to Keep the Screws on Iran By Larisa Epatko In the days after the U.S. Embassy and its staffers were taken hostage in Tehran in 1979, the United States invoked an obscure law and declared Iran a threat to its national security. Thirty-two years later, amid a new U.N. Continue reading
Nov 08 U.N. Report Warns of Iran's Nuclear Capability By News Desk Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks at the United Nations 2010 High-level Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons at U.N. headquarters May 3, 2010. Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images. Updated 3:25 p.m. ET:… Continue reading
Nov 07 Watch Gold Lures Illegal Miners to Peru's Rainforests In southeastern Peru, where the Andes Mountains meet the Amazon, lies one of the world's richest ecosystems and the destructive lure of gold. In a collaboration with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, special correspondent Steve Sapienza reports on illegal… Continue watching
Nov 07 Ex-General Wins Run-off Election in Guatemala By News Desk Photo of Guatemalan president-elect Otto Perez Molina by Johan Ordonez/AFP/Getty Images. A high murder rate and drug gang violence drove Guatemalans to vote Sunday for a former military official who has vowed to put the army back on the streets. Continue reading
Nov 07 Around the World in '100 Objects' By Tom LeGro In this extended conversation, Jeffrey Brown talks to Neil MacGregor, director of the British Museum and author of "A History of the World in 100 Objects," about the 16th century double-headed, serpent turquoise mosaic and what it's like to run… Continue reading
Nov 07 Nicaragua's Ortega Projected to Win Third Term, Opens Door to Long Rule By Larisa Epatko Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega looks poised to win a landslide victory to a third term in office after orchestrating changes to the constitution to allow him the chance to stay in power. Continue reading
Nov 07 Greek Leaders in Talks to Form New Government, Italy's Debt Crisis Grows By News Desk George Papandreou, Greece's prime minister, left, meets with Karolos Papoulias, Greece's president, center, and Antonis Samaras, leader of Greece's main opposition New Democracy party, in Athens, Greece, on Nov. 6, 2011. Photo by Angelos Tzortzinis/Bloomberg via Getty Images. Greek leaders… Continue reading
Nov 05 From 'A History of the World in 100 Objects' By Tom LeGro Originally presented as a BBC radio series and now a book published in America, "A History of the World in 100 Objects" tells the story of humanity using artifacts selected from the British Museum. Continue reading
Nov 04 Watch Ahead of Nicaraguan Election, Ortega's Leadership Back in Spotlight Nicaragua Vote Puts Daniel Ortega's Leadership Back in Spotlight… Continue watching
Nov 04 Omar Offendum, Hip-Hop and the Arab Spring By Tom LeGro Born in Saudi Arabia to Syrian parents and raised in America, hip-hop artist Omar Offendum uses his lyrical talents to bridge his Middle Eastern roots to his Western upbringing. Continue reading