Jun 01 Does Emotion Ever Have a Role in Foreign Policy? Seeing the pictures from Syria this week of the bodies of women and children murdered - many at close range - reminds us again of the inhumanity of war. As hard as we try to put horrible images like… Continue reading
May 31 Watch News Wrap: Obama Presses European Leaders Over Financial Reforms News Wrap: Obama Presses European Leaders Over Financial Reforms… Continue watching
May 31 Chinese Activist Chen: 'I Do Want to Go Back to China' By Larisa Epatko Chinese legal activist Chen Guangcheng clarified Thursday that despite escaping house arrest last month and his alleged abuse by local authorities, he wants to return to China after studying law in the United States. Continue reading
May 30 Charles Taylor's Sentence for Africans: Tough, Too Tough, Not Tough Enough? Former Liberian President Charles Taylor awaits his sentencing in The Hague. Photo by Toussaint Kluiters/AFP/Getty Images. The world and many in Africa applauded the 50-year sentence imposed Wednesday on former Liberian President Charles Taylor for aiding and abetting… Continue reading
May 30 Syria's Walking Wounded By News Desk Syrian forces target medical workers and hospitals, leaving the country's wounded with no place to go. Continue reading
May 30 Watch News Wrap: Former Liberian President Taylor Gets 50-Year Sentence In other news Wednesday, former Liberian President Charles Taylor was sentenced in an international war crimes court to 50 years in prison for fomenting civil war in neighboring Sierra Leone. Also, Britain's highest court upheld an order to extradite WikiLeaks'… Continue watching
May 29 Watch Canadian Ambassador: Syrian Massacre Is Another 'Horrific Incident' Canadian Ambassador: Syrian Massacre Is Another 'Horrific Incident'… Continue watching
May 29 Watch News Wrap: al-Qaida's No. 2 Afghan Killed in Airstrike, NATO Says In other news Tuesday, al-Qaida's Sakhr al-Taifi has been killed in a NATO airstrike, according to alliance officials. He had commanded foreign militants in Afghanistan. Also, search teams dug into new piles of rubble in northern Italy after a second… Continue watching
May 28 Watch Were War Crimes Committed in Syria's Houla? United Nations special envoy Kofi Annan arrived in Syria's capital Damascus Monday, condemning a weekend massacre that killed at least 108 people in the village of Houla. Ray Suarez and Alex Thomson of Independent Television News, reporting from Homs, discuss… Continue watching
May 28 Syria Massacre: Violence Spills Into Neighboring Lebanon By Larisa Epatko A massacre of more than 100 people in Houla, Syria, over the weekend is causing violence to spike in Lebanon, where Time magazine's Rania Abouzeid is reporting. She described this and other fallout from the fighting to Ray Suarez on… Continue reading