Feb 19 Marines Dodge Snipers, Seize Taliban Compound in Marjah By Larisa Epatko U.S. Marines fought and captured a closely guarded compound in the southern Afghanistan town of Marjah Friday, and discovered inside dozens of Taliban identification cards, photos of fighters posing with weapons and diplomas from an insurgent training camp in Pakistan. Continue reading
Feb 18 Dalai Lama: U.S. a ‘Champion of Democracy, Freedom, Human Values’ By Larisa Epatko After his meeting with President Barack Obama, the Dalai Lama told reporters Thursday outside the White House that the two leaders discussed promoting peace, humanitarian values, religious harmony and the need for more women in leadership roles. Continue reading
Feb 18 Where Do U.S.-China Relations Stand? By Larisa Epatko Author and lawyer Gordon Chang and Susan Shirk of the University of California at San Diego help put some recent differences between the United States and China into context. Continue reading
Feb 18 Thursday’s Headlines: U.N. Climate Chief Resigns; Dalai Lama Visits White House Two months after world leaders failed to agree on a legally binding global warming pact at the Copenhagen Climate Summit, Yvo de Boer, the top U.N. climate change official, has announced his resignation. De Boer denied to… Continue reading
Feb 18 Watch U.N. Under-Secretary General Updates Needs in Haiti Nearly 600,000 people are still without shelter as the rains begin to fall in Port-au-Prince. Ray Suarez speaks to Under-Secretary General John Holmes of the United Nations about Haiti's long journey of rebuilding ahead and the state of the relief… Continue watching
Feb 18 Watch Tough, Low-Cost Wheelchairs Needed in Haiti Spencer Michels reports on efforts in San Francisco to design and build heavy-duty, low-cost wheelchairs for use in the rough terrain of Haiti and around the third world. Continue watching
Feb 17 Haiti Releases 8 U.S. Missionaries By Jason Breslow A judge in Haiti has freed eight of the 10 American missionaries arrested on charges of child kidnapping after trying to bring 33 child survivors of last month's earthquake to an orphanage in the Dominican Republic. Judge Bernard Saint-Vil… Continue reading
Feb 16 Haiti Quake Propels Use of Twitter as Disaster-Relief Tool By Larisa Epatko Kate Starbird, a graduate student at the University of Colorado at Boulder, studies the use of Twitter during crises. When she and the other UC researchers heard about the massive earthquake in Haiti on Jan. 12, all they could do… Continue reading
Feb 16 Reporter: ‘Intense Pockets of Fighting’ in Afghanistan Rajiv Chandrasekaran of the Washington Post is on the frontlines of the Marine offensive in Marjah, Afghanistan, where U.S. and Afghan forces are trying to clear the Taliban stronghold of militants. "What we've been seeing here over the past… Continue reading
Feb 16 Q&A: CIA-Pakistan Sting Nets No. 2 Taliban Leader By Larisa Epatko A joint CIA-Pakistan operation has captured Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban's No. 2 leader behind Afghan Taliban founder Mullah Mohammad Omar, reports said Tuesday. Continue reading