Feb 18 String of Bombings Kills Dozens Ahead of Shiite Holiday By PBS News Hour A series of explosions at Shiite mosques and a religious procession in Iraq Friday killed more than 35 people and injured dozens more during events marking the eve of Ashoura, the holiest day of the year for Shiites. Continue reading
Feb 18 Watch Iran In a War of Words with the Bush Administration President Bush has labeled Iran as the world's primary state sponsor of terror and demand it end its nuclear program. The president's criciticsm has angered the Iranian government and many of its people. Elizabeth Farnsworth reports from Tehran on how… Continue watching
Feb 17 Watch President Bush Names John Negroponte to National Director of Intelligence President Bush Thursday nominated U.S. Ambassador to Iraq John Negroponte as national intelligence director. Continue watching
Feb 17 Watch President Bush Names John Negroponte to National Director of Intelligence President Bush on Thursday nominated U.S. Ambassador to Iraq John Negroponte as national intelligence director. Two members of the 9/11 Commission and a former State Department official discuss the president's nomination and the responsibilities of the new position. Continue watching
Feb 15 Chertoff Confirmed As Homeland Security Chief By PBS News Hour The Senate unanimously confirmed federal judge Michael Chertoff as the nation's next Homeland Security secretary Tuesday, despite wrangling over whether he had any connection to a Justice Department memo on the treatment of terror suspects. Continue reading
Feb 11 Rumsfeld Visits Iraq; Insurgents Launch Two Attacks By PBS News Hour Two separate insurgent attacks in Iraq on Friday killed at least 23 and injured dozens, occurring on the same day that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld visited the country to observe the training of Iraqi security forces. Continue reading
Feb 10 North Korea Declares Itself a Nuclear Power, Withdraws From Talks By PBS News Hour North Korea declared for the first time Thursday that it possessed nuclear weapons and pulled out of six-party talks aimed at shutting down its program, citing the policies of President Bush as the reason for the failed negotiations. Continue reading
Feb 08 Iraq’s Al-Qaida Claims Trio of Deadly Blasts in Two Days By PBS News Hour More than 20 people were killed outside a police station in central Baghdad Tuesday morning by an alleged suicide bombing. Continue reading
Feb 03 Watch The U.N. Oil-for-Food Program Report Released A U.N. report released Thursday said the U.N. Oil-for-Food program was tainted by fraud. After a report on the findings, Margaret Warner talks with former U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, who led the investigation. Continue watching
Feb 01 U.N. Report Refers Sudanese War Crimes to International Criminal Court By PBS News Hour Rebel leaders and officials of the Sudanese government are criticizing a report released Monday by the United Nations that accuses the government and members of the country's two main rebel groups of widespread atrocities and crimes against humanity. Continue reading