Feb 09 Watch Suez Labor Strikes Augment Protests as Unrest Continues Across Egypt For the 16th straight day, protesters gathered across Egypt, ignoring a warning from the vice president that tolerance for protests was wearing thin. Lindsey Hilsum of Independent Television News reports on the continued unrest and the several deaths during the… Continue watching
Feb 09 Egypt’s Banks, Restaurants, Pyramids Open… But When Will Tourists Return? By Larisa Epatko Business owners near Cairo's Tahrir Square, where anti-government demonstrators have congregated for two weeks, and in the legendary bazaar and tourist haunt Khan el-Khalili are ready for life to return to normal, but continuing protests are dashing those hopes. Continue reading
Feb 09 Egypt’s Foreign Minister Tells U.S. Not to Impose Its Will By News Desk Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit said Wednesday that it would be better for the United States to encourage Egypt in its changes rather than impose its will. "For Americans to come and say 'change is now,' but already… Continue reading
Feb 09 Bombings in Iraq Kill 7, Prosecutors Seek Trial for Italy’s Berlusconi Several bombs in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk killed seven people, including two policemen, and injured an estimated 80 more. The oil-rich region has been relatively quiet in recent months but is also the seat of ethnic tensions. Continue reading
Feb 09 From the Field: Opening Horizons for Guatemala’s Girls By Talea Miller ANTIGUA, Guatemala– For girls growing up in rural Guatemala, it is not unusual to leave school by the age of 12, marry by 15, and give birth for the first time while still a teenager. About 60 percent of school-aged… Continue reading
Feb 08 If a Boy Scout Can Get Nuclear Materials, What’s Stopping Terrorists? DetectFlashDecision_Blog('news01s47f5qdbe', 'o0yB1gkiWyA', '29'); Back in the days when we thought a "dirty bomb" might be a raunchy joke gone awry, young David Hahn was gathering all the radioactive material he could get his hands on. But he… Continue reading
Feb 08 Watch Will Egypt’s Army Be a Change Agent or Maintain Status Quo? As the Egyptian government continues negotiations with opposition leaders, the army remains the trump card in the transition of political power. Gwen Ifill speaks with former Pentagon official Matthew Axelrod and Shibley Telhami of the University of Maryland about the… Continue watching
Feb 08 Watch News Wrap: Muslim Mob Attacks Churches, Court in Indonesia In other news Tuesday, hundreds of Muslim men demanding harsh punishment for a Christian on trial for blasphemy attacked churches and hurled rocks at a court building and riot police in Indonesia. Also, President Obama continued calls to build a… Continue watching
Feb 08 Watch Egypt Mediator: U.S. Should Support Liberty, But Not Interfere Too Much An estimated 250,000 people gathered in Cairo after the release of a Google executive re-energized anti-government demonstrations. Margaret Warner speaks with Ahmed Zewail, an Egyptian-American professor and Nobel laureate chemist, who is serving as an unofficial mediator between the government… Continue watching
Feb 08 Egypt 2011 Harkens Back to France 1968 May 14, 1968: Armed police face a crowd of student demonstrators during the student riots at Paris. (Reg Lancaster/Express/Getty Images) As analysts and pundits search for historical precedents to sort through the events in Cairo -- Iran in 1979… Continue reading