Dec 09 British Parliament Approves Controversial Tuition Hikes By Larisa Epatko Surrounded by student protests outside, British lawmakers voted Thursday to triple the university tuition fee cap in a move meant to help stabilize the country's ailing economy. Continue reading
Dec 09 North Korea Welcomes Chinese Envoy, Election Protests Continue in Haiti South Korean marines patrol on Yeonpyeong island in the disputed waters of the Yellow Sea on Dec, 6, 2010. (Kim Jae-Myung/AFP/Getty Images) China stepped up rhetoric in response to U.S. criticism that it has not done enough to respond… Continue reading
Dec 08 Chinese Dissident to Get Nobel Peace Recognition From Afar By Larisa Epatko Chinese pro-democracy activist Liu Xiaobo will receive the Nobel Peace Prize in absentia on Friday in an award ceremony in Oslo, Norway, where his absence will be marked by an empty chair. Continue reading
Dec 07 WikiLeaks’ Assange Arrested in London; Iran Nuclear Talks Conclude Wikileaks founder Julian Assange during a news conference at the Geneva Press Club on Nov. 4, 2010. Photo by Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images. Julian Assange, the 39-year-old Australian and founder of the WikiLeaks web site, was arrested by Scotland… Continue reading
Dec 06 Watch Iranian Nuclear Program: Will U.S. Concede Anything in Talks? Iran struck a defiant note as talks began anew with the U.S. and five other countries over its nuclear ambitions. Margaret Warner talks with former State Department official Suzanne Maloney of the Brookings Institution about Iran's nuclear program and the… Continue watching
Dec 06 Watch News Wrap: Suicide Bombings Kill 50 in Pakistan; WikiLeaks Bank Account Closed In other news Monday, two suicide bombers attacked a meeting of anti-Taliban officials and tribesmen in northwest Pakistan, killing 50 and wounding more than 100. This was the third attack this year on a tribal militia meeting. Continue watching
Dec 06 Watch Nuclear Talks Resume as Iran Makes ‘Yellowcake’ Announcement International talks on Iran's nuclear program resumed Monday shortly after Tehran claimed it had mastered the uranium-mining process to become "self sufficient" in creating nuclear fuel. Margaret Warner has an update. Continue watching
Dec 06 Iranian Nuclear Talks Resume, But Expectations Low By Larisa Epatko Delegates from Iran and the European Union, U.S., Russia, Britain, France and Germany met in Geneva Monday for their first nuclear talks in more than a year. Continue reading
Dec 06 Poll: Americans Have Inflated View of Foreign Aid When asked in a recent poll how much the U.S. government spends on foreign aid, Americans vastly overestimated the amount -- which might explain why politicians look to that area first when considering budget cuts, some analysts say. The… Continue reading
Dec 02 Miles O’Brien: Exploring the Eruption of Indonesia’s Mount Merapi On Thursday's NewsHour, science correspondent Miles O'Brien reports from Indonesia on the science and the superstition surrounding the recent eruption of the deadly Mount Merapi volcano. For an inside look, Hari Sreenivasan caught up with O'Brien in Indonesia for… Continue reading