Feb 09 Bombings in Iraq Kill 7, Prosecutors Seek Trial for Italy’s Berlusconi Several bombs in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk killed seven people, including two policemen, and injured an estimated 80 more. The oil-rich region has been relatively quiet in recent months but is also the seat of ethnic tensions. Continue reading
Feb 09 From the Field: Opening Horizons for Guatemala’s Girls By Talea Miller ANTIGUA, Guatemala– For girls growing up in rural Guatemala, it is not unusual to leave school by the age of 12, marry by 15, and give birth for the first time while still a teenager. About 60 percent of school-aged… Continue reading
Feb 08 If a Boy Scout Can Get Nuclear Materials, What’s Stopping Terrorists? DetectFlashDecision_Blog('news01s47f5qdbe', 'o0yB1gkiWyA', '29'); Back in the days when we thought a "dirty bomb" might be a raunchy joke gone awry, young David Hahn was gathering all the radioactive material he could get his hands on. But he… Continue reading
Feb 08 Watch Will Egypt’s Army Be a Change Agent or Maintain Status Quo? As the Egyptian government continues negotiations with opposition leaders, the army remains the trump card in the transition of political power. Gwen Ifill speaks with former Pentagon official Matthew Axelrod and Shibley Telhami of the University of Maryland about the… Continue watching
Feb 08 Watch News Wrap: Muslim Mob Attacks Churches, Court in Indonesia In other news Tuesday, hundreds of Muslim men demanding harsh punishment for a Christian on trial for blasphemy attacked churches and hurled rocks at a court building and riot police in Indonesia. Also, President Obama continued calls to build a… Continue watching
Feb 08 Watch Egypt Mediator: U.S. Should Support Liberty, But Not Interfere Too Much An estimated 250,000 people gathered in Cairo after the release of a Google executive re-energized anti-government demonstrations. Margaret Warner speaks with Ahmed Zewail, an Egyptian-American professor and Nobel laureate chemist, who is serving as an unofficial mediator between the government… Continue watching
Feb 08 Egypt 2011 Harkens Back to France 1968 May 14, 1968: Armed police face a crowd of student demonstrators during the student riots at Paris. (Reg Lancaster/Express/Getty Images) As analysts and pundits search for historical precedents to sort through the events in Cairo -- Iran in 1979… Continue reading
Feb 08 Government Says Toyota Electronic System Not Faulty, Chechen Leader Takes Credit for Airport Bombing Updated 2 p.m. ET The government's report says there were no electronic problems that would have caused sudden acceleration in Toyotas, and that any mechanical defects were resolved by recalls. Toyota recalled more than 12 million vehicles after the… Continue reading
Feb 07 Watch News Wrap: Unrest Spreads to Iraq as Protesters Call for Jobs, Electricity In other news Monday, Iraqis protested a lack of electricity and jobs and an end to corruption in demonstrations this weekend. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki rejected the use of violence against protesters. In southern Sudan, more than 98 percent of… Continue watching
Feb 07 Watch In Egypt’s Political Transformation, Who Speaks for Whom? Jeffrey Brown discusses negotiations between opposition leaders and the government of President Hosni Mubarak with Michael Singh of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and columnist Mona Eltahawy. Continue watching