Aug 26 Thursday: U.N. Reviewing Taliban Threat; N. Korea’s Kim Jong-Il in China Pakistani villagers evacuate Sajawal in Sindh province on Thursday. Photo by Asif Hassan/AFP/Getty Images. The United Nations says it is reviewing security measures for its aid workers in Pakistan, the BBC reports, after a warning of new threats from… Continue reading
Aug 26 Watch Waterborne Disease Threat Overwhelming Medical Workers in Pakistan Medical personnel in Pakistan are working to control the spread of flood-related waterborne disease, but they face a monumental task as the humanitarian crisis worsens. Special correspondent Jeffrey Kaye reports. Continue watching
Aug 25 Watch U.S. Pledges More Aid to Pakistan for Flood Crisis In the day's other news, the head of the U.S. Agency for International Development, Rajiv Shah, visited Pakistan and made a pledge for additional U.S. aid. Continue watching
Aug 25 Surveying the Flood Damage in Pakistan ABOARD A C130 CARGO PLANE OVER PAKISTAN | We're flying back to Islamabad, Pakistan's capital, after a day-long trip, care of the U.S. State Department, to survey flood damage in the south and see some of the relief… Continue reading
Aug 25 Law & Disorder: The Missteps of NOPD After Katrina By Hari Sreenivasan We talked this week with A.C. Thompson, one of the reporters from ProPublica who has been investigating the New Orleans Police Department in the years since Hurricane Katrina. He has been exploring reports of specific acts of excessive force… Continue reading
Aug 25 Notes From an Embed in Iraq: A Lesson Learned By Margaret Warner MOSUL, Iraq | We're out in a nine-humvee convoy with Federal Police Gen. Hamid Mohsin Al-Taey, whose Baghdad-based unit has the job of weeding anti-government insurgents out of western Mosul far to the north. It's the most dangerous section of… Continue reading
Aug 25 Watch Odierno: Iraqis Will Be Able to Handle Security Margaret Warner talks to Army Gen. Raymond Odierno about the state of security in Iraq as the U.S. scales back combat operations. Continue watching
Aug 25 Watch Wave of Violence in Iraq Kills More Than 50 More than 50 Iraqis died Wednesday in more than two dozen separate attacks across Iraq. Margaret Warner has more. Continue watching
Aug 24 South Africa in an Uproar Over Proposals to Restrict Media A new uproar has developed in South Africa over proposals by the governing African National Congress to impose curbs on that country's dynamic and freewheeling press. Two legislative proposals have drawn criticism not only from local and foreign journalists,… Continue reading
Aug 24 Portraits of Iraqis and Their Dreams By Margaret Warner Iraqis' feelings about their country's future are best reflected in what they say about their own personal dreams. The younger ones appear less scarred -- their parents' and grandparents' generations seem far more so. Here's a sampling of people we've… Continue reading