Oct 04 Watch Somalis 'Shocked' at Scale of Deadly al-Shabab Attack in Mogadishu Al-Shabab took responsibility for a truck bomb that rammed a checkpoint Tuesday near the education ministry in Mogadishu, Somalia, as students and parents were crowding in to learn about scholarships. Ray Suarez discusses that attack that killed at least 70… Continue watching
Oct 04 Watch Liberians Head to Polls in Test of Struggling Democracy's Stability Liberia Struggles to Build Democracy After Civil War… Continue watching
Oct 04 Long-Stalled Trade Agreement with South Korea Sees Some Light When I accompanied a group of editors and producers to Korea in November 2007, the big news was the pending final approval of a multi-billion free trade agreement between Washington and Seoul. Four years later, it is still… Continue reading
Oct 04 70 Killed in Somalia Truck Bombing, al-Shabab Claims Responsibility Militants detonated a truck bomb in the Somali capital of Mogadishu Tuesday, killing an estimated 70 people at the Ministry of Education. Many of the victims were students and parents. The truck had been stopped at a… Continue reading
Oct 03 Watch Nobels Honor Immune System Research Paving Way for New Vaccines, Treatments American Bruce Beutler and Luxembourg-born Jules Hoffmann shared this year's Nobel Prize in medicine with Canadian-born Ralph Steinman, who died on Friday, for their discoveries related to the immune system. Jeffrey Brown discusses their work with Dr. Anthony Fauci of… Continue watching
Oct 03 Watch India's Massive School Lunch Program Aims to Curb Widespread Malnutrition The economy in India is growing rapidly, but not fast enough to take care of its millions of poor and hungry children. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on a solution that has resulted in the world's largest school… Continue watching
Oct 03 Watch As Violence in Syria Escalates, Will Many 'Fence Sitters' Back Opposition? Word of a violent weekend assault on the city of Rastan by Syrian security forces prompted protests in several other cities across the country on Monday. Ray Suarez discusses the recent increase in violence with NPR's Deborah Amos, reporting from… Continue watching
Oct 03 New GlobalPost Series 'The Rainbow Struggle' Highlights Gay Rights Fight By Larisa Epatko Kevin Grant, GlobalPost's deputy editor of special reports, speaks with Hari Sreenivasan about a series of in-depth reports that launches Monday highlighting developments and incidents of violence in the fight for gay rights around the world. Continue reading
Oct 03 Somalis Desperate for Aid on the Deadly Streets of Mogadishu Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, is considered one of the most dangerous, lawless cities in the world. AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenades are sold openly at weapons markets, insurgent and government forces fight each other regularly in the streets. Years of… Continue reading
Oct 03 World Week Ahead: Weapons Found in Syria; Nobel Prizes Awarded By News Desk Syrian regime supporters carry pictures of President Bashar al-Assad during a protest in the Nabaa neighborhood of Beirut, Lebanon. Photo by Anwar Amro/AFP/Getty Images. Syrian authorities captured a cache of weapons they said was smuggled in from Turkey as they… Continue reading