Oct 15 Watch Rebels Choose to Work with Jihadists to Expedite Assad Ouster Rebels Choose to Work with Jihadists to Expedite Assad Ouster… Continue watching
Oct 15 U.S. Navy, Allies Find Less Than Half the Sea Mines Planted in Key Exercise By David Chalian Below the flight deck of the USS Enterprise, one of the aircraft carriers that participated in the mine hunting exercise in September. Photo by Dan Sagalyn A major international naval exercise last month in and around the Persian Gulf and… Continue reading
Oct 15 Colombian Government and FARC to Begin Formal Negotiations Relatives of missing people, kidnapped or forcibly recruited by the FARC demonstrate in Bogota days before formal peace negotiations between the guerrillas and the Colombian government in Oslo, Norway. Photo by Guillermo Legaria/AFP/GettyImages One of this year's most important political… Continue reading
Oct 15 Watch Islamists Fighting with Syrian Rebels Get Arms from Saudi Arabia and Qatar As airstrikes and battles continue to rage in Syria, more arms are getting into that country even as Turkey tightens its shared border. The New York Times reported that Saudi and Qatari weapons are in the hands of opposition fighters,… Continue watching
Oct 15 Watch News Wrap: U.S. Economists Win Nobel Prize for Innovation in Market Design In other news Monday, Americans Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley won the 2012 Nobel Prize in economics for changing the ways in which the market can match transactions, from choosing schools to donating organs. Also, Pakistan's Malala Yousafzai was flown… Continue watching
Oct 12 Watch European Union Has Power to Address Continental Problems Collectively European Union Has Power to Address Continental Problems Collectively… Continue watching
Oct 12 Why Did the European Union Win the Nobel Peace Prize? By Larisa Epatko The European Union, which struggled for the past few years to keep afloat its members in financial straits, received a flash of recognition Friday when it won the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize. Continue reading
Oct 12 European Union: Key Moments By Larisa Epatko We take a look back at key moments of the European Union, which won the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize. Continue reading
Oct 12 Watch News Wrap: Hackers in Iran Likely Responsible for Cyber Attacks in Persian Gulf In other news Friday, U.S. authorities have new evidence suggesting hackers based in Iran carried out cyber attack that crippled 30,000 computers at major oil and gas companies in Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Also, Pakistani police arrested suspects connected to… Continue watching
Oct 11 Watch Turkey's Plane Incident Shows Crackdown on Assad Regime, Disapproval of Russia Turkey's Plane Incident Shows Crackdown on Assad Regime, Disapproval of Russia… Continue watching