Jun 21 Watch News Wrap: Iraqi Suicide Bombing Kills at Least 22, Wounds 37 In other news Tuesday, a rare bombing in southern Iraq killed at least 22 people and wounded 37. Officials said at least one suicide car bomber struck as security forces were changing shifts. Also, Leon Panetta's nomination to be defense… Continue watching
Jun 21 Watch Obama Preps Afghanistan Drawdown, but Debate Lingers on End Goals President Obama will announce plans for the initial U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan Wednesday. Jeffrey Brown discusses what the president's options are with retired Army Lt. Col. John Nagl of the Center for a New American Security, author Phyllis Bennis… Continue watching
Jun 21 Watch Obama to Unveil Timetable for U.S. Troop Withdrawal From Afghanistan White House officials confirmed that President Obama will announce plans for the initial U.S. troop drawdown from Afghanistan in a primetime speech Wednesday night. Jeffrey Brown reports. Continue watching
Jun 21 Slide Show: The World’s Biggest Refugee Hot Zones By Talea Miller More than 80 percent of the world's 15.4 million refugees are hosted in some of the world's poorest countries, according to new 2010 data released this week by the U.N. High Commission on Refugees. Driven from their homes… Continue reading
Jun 21 Refugee Hot Zones Around the World By Talea Miller The UN Refugee Agency released new 2010 data on the countries hosting the largest numbers of refugees and the countries producing large refugee populations. Continue reading
Jun 21 Obama Set to Announce Afghanistan Troop Drawdown, 22 Killed in Iraq Bombings U.S. troops in Afghanistan. Photo by Patrick Baz/AFP/Getty Images. President Obama is set to make a highly-anticipated announcement Wednesday on the number of U.S. troops to be withdrawn from Afghanistan beginning in July. The president is facing pressure to… Continue reading
Jun 20 Watch Amid Push for Talks With Taliban, Where Do Rights of Afghan Women Fit In? Three Afghan women, influential figures in politics, business and non-governmental organizations, were in Washington last week meeting with senior members of the Obama administration and Congress on the topic of negotiating peace with the Taliban. Margaret Warner gets their views… Continue watching
Jun 20 Watch ‘Apache 8’ Follows All-Women Firefighters On and Off the Reservation Hari Sreenivasan talks to filmmaker Sande Zeig about her documentar, "Apache 8". Continue watching
Jun 20 ‘Apache 8’ Fight Arizona Wildfires For 30 years, the all-female Apache 8 unit has protected their reservation from fire and also responded to wildfires around the nation. Continue reading
Jun 20 World Week Ahead: Afghan Troop Downsizing; Gates Exit Interview By Larisa Epatko This week, Jim Lehrer will interview Defense Secretary Robert Gates as he prepares to step down from his administration post and as President Obama prepares to announce the level of troop withdrawals from Afghanistan. Continue reading