Oct 08 Despite Earlier Economic Crises, Euro Performing Well — Almost Too Well It was only last spring, amid the Greek financial crisis and divisions among European Union nations on how to respond to it, that some voices of alarm arose about the future of the European common currency, the euro, and… Continue reading
Oct 08 Jailed China Dissident Liu Xiaobo Wins Nobel Peace Prize Protesters in Hong Kong demonstrate to free Liu Xiaobo outside the Chinese Foreign Ministry on Friday. Photo by Mike Clarke/AFP/Getty Images. Imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday "for his long and non-violent… Continue reading
Oct 08 Watch Nobel-Winner Xiaobo ‘Stuck to His Guns’ on China’s Political Reform Two weeks after Beijing warned the committee not to do so, it awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to jailed dissident Liu Xiaobo. Margaret Warner talks to Orville Schell, director of the Asia Society's Center on U.S.-China Relations, for more. Continue watching
Oct 08 Watch China Lashes Out at Imprisoned Dissident Xiaobo Winning Nobel Peace Prize The 2010 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the imprisoned Liu Xiaobo for his human rights work in China, much to the country's dismay. Angus Walker of Independent Television News reports from Beijing on the local reaction. Continue watching
Oct 07 Watch Flooding, Taliban Create Uphill Battle to Educate Pakistani Girls Jonathan Miller of Independent Television News reports from Pakistan's Swat Valley about how efforts to educate girls are being hampered by both floodwaters and Taliban insurgents. Continue watching
Oct 07 Sudan Referendum Date ‘Set in Stone’ By Larisa Epatko The timing of the Jan. 9 vote on whether Sudan will become two countries is "set in stone," despite some major unresolved issues from distribution of oil wealth to citizenship rights, State Department officials said Thursday. Continue reading
Oct 07 Watch News Wrap: Suicide Bombers Strike Sufi Muslim Shrine in Pakistan In other news Thursday, two suicide bombers killed at least eight people and wounded 65 others at a Sufi Muslim shrine in Karachi. In Southern China, floodwater forced 200,000 people from their homes in the worst flooding there in 50… Continue watching
Oct 07 Thursday: Toxic Sludge Reaches Danube; Karzai Opens Peace Council The toxic red sludge that has been winding its way though villages in Hungary this week -- the result of a metal plant reservoir that burst its banks -- reached parts of the Danube River on Thursday, an emergency… Continue reading
Oct 07 Bosnia’s Political Deadlock Underscores Ethnic Cracks By News Desk Growing ethnic nationalism in Bosnia-Herzegovina reflected in Sunday's elections casts further doubts on the country's prospects of joining the European Union. Continue reading
Oct 06 White House Report Unveils Concerns Over Pakistani Government As tensions have increased between the United States and Pakistan in recent days -- symbolized by the Pakistan government's closing of a key border crossing for NATO supplies into Afghanistan -- a White House report has become public and… Continue reading