Feb 15 Watch News Wrap: Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi Ordered to Stand Trial In other news Tuesday, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was ordered to stand trial for allegations he paid an underage girl for sex. Berlusconi denies the charges and refuses to step down. In Southern Sudan, the death toll from a… Continue watching
Feb 15 Fresh Iran Protests Highlight Dormant Opposition By Joanne Jennings The show of force by tens of thousands of Iranians on the streets of Tehran Monday and early Tuesday has demonstrated that the opposition movement is still alive, despite the government's violent efforts to suppress it over the last two… Continue reading
Feb 15 Clinton: Internet Barriers Have ‘Moral, Political and Economic’ Costs By Larisa Epatko Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took to task governments, including those in China, Myanmar and Iran, for curbing Internet freedoms of their citizens, while defending the Obama administration's stance on the leaked WikiLeaks documents in a speech Tuesday. Continue reading
Feb 15 Live Chat | Teaching Egypt: Lessons in Democracy, Culture, Technology By News Desk As PBS NewsHour continues to cover the latest events in Egypt and beyond, our site for students and teachers, PBS NewsHour Extra, partnered with Independent Television Service (ITVS) to pull together some unique perspectives on the situation… Continue reading
Feb 15 Watch Live and Discuss: Secretary Clinton Speaks About Internet Freedom Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is set to speak Tuesday afternoon about Internet freedom around the world. The speech, entitled "Internet Rights and Wrongs: Choices & Challenges in a Networked World," will begin around 12:30 p.m. at… Continue reading
Feb 15 Reporter’s Notebook: The Family Planning Frontier in Guatemala By Ray Suarez A week of travel in Guatemala is a feast for the eyes: stunning volcanic peaks covered in a carpet of green -- cabbages, coffee, melons, bananas growing on impossibly steep hillsides -- and people working hard to wrestle a living… Continue reading
Feb 15 Early Takes on Egypt’s Revolution By Michael D. Mosettig It used to take decades for academics to sort out revolutions. For instance, Crane Brinton's still-revered (if not always correctly read) "Anatomy of a Revolution" was first published 20 years after the Russian Revolution and centuries after the French and… Continue reading
Feb 15 Iranian Lawmakers Call for Execution of Opposition Leaders, Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi to Stand Trial Lawmakers in Tehran have called for the execution of two opposition leaders in response to growing protests, according to Iran's state-run television. Mehdi Karrubi and Mir Hossein Moussav, both former presidential candidates, were denounced by parliament after… Continue reading
Feb 14 Watch News Wrap: China Passes Japan to Become World’s No. 2 Economy In other news Monday, China passed Japan to become the world's second-largest economy after Japan's economy shrunk the final quarter of 2010. Japan has placed behind the U.S. for much of the past 40 years. In Iran, protests inspired by… Continue watching
Feb 14 Watch Debate Continues Over Social Media’s Role in Egyptian, Arab World Protests How Did Social Media Factor Into Egypt's Uprising?… Continue watching