Egypt is by far the largest Arab country, by population and events there tend to reverberate throughout the region.
A portrait of South Africa’s president, Jacob Zuma, was vandalized Tuesday at a gallery in Johannesburg.
Three climbers died on Mount Everest this weekend. Two more are missing. The mountain is particularly dangerous this year, and more congested than ever. One respected expedition organizer canceled the season earlier this month.
Barack Obama welcomed the new French President, Francois Hollande, to the White House today. But cameras were not allowed to capture Obama’s handshake with the Socialist leader.
Saudi Arabian professor of economics, Mohammad al-Qahtani, believes the government is cracking down on Saudi civil rights activists, like himself.
Greece is broke and many Greeks are struggling to make ends meet. Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with one unemployed woman, Theodora Oikonomides in Athens.
To Madrid, the capital of Spain, for the GeoQuiz. Name the venue for the Madrid Open tennis tournament. It looks like a big cube with a roof that slides off almost magically. But the real novelty is the blue clay court.
The BBC’s Rana Jawad was the only Western reporter to remain in Tripoli throughout the uprising that toppled Muammar Gaddafi last year.
The latest underwear bomb is allegedly the handiwork of a 30-year old Saudi man, Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri. Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Bruce Riedel, senior foreign policy fellow at the Brookings Institution. He’s just published an article on Asiri.
Stock markets in Europe fell initially today on the election news from Greece and France. Economists disagree, but many fear the populist backlash against austerity could put new pressure on the euro, and thus, the world economy. Anchor Marco Werman discusses the issue with Jacob Kirkegaard, research fellow at the Peterson Institute of International Economcis in Washington.
Guangcheng is pleading for foreign asylum a day after leaving the US embassy creating new strains in relations between China and the United States.
The largest and most sustained immigration trend in US history is over. That’s according to a new analysis of migration between Mexico and the United States that as many Mexicans are leaving the United States as entering, and maybe even more. Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Jeff Passel, senior demographer at the Pew Hispanic Center.
The most disastrous exit by foreign forces from Afghanistan was by the British during the First Anglo-Afghan War, 170 years ago. More than 16,000 people retreated from Kabul, and only one single Briton reached safety. A new book re-tells the story of that war, and readers can make their own parallels to today. Anchor Marco Werman speaks with author, Diana Preston.
Tension is rising in the Democratic Republic of Congo, after President Laurent Kabila issued an arrest warrant for one his generals, former warlord, Bosco Ntaganda . Ntaganda has gone AWOL with many of his commanders.
Marco Werman hears about the attempt by Islamic militants to set up a jihadi training camp in Oregon in the 1990s, from Les Zaitz, senior investigative reporter for the Oregonian newspaper. The camp is in the news again because of the planned extradition from the UK of a militant Islamic cleric connected to the ranch.
