Monthly Archive: January 2015
President and Prime Minister of Yemen resign in apparent coup by Houthi rebels Austerity measures take center stage in Greek elections Boko Haram claims responsibility for major attack in Nigeria CIA whistle-blower case goes...
In Europe all eyes are on the Greek elections where an upstart leftist party is challenging the Eurozone’s five-year policy of austerity that wielded deep cuts in public spending and caused plummeting living standards,...
The Islamist sect Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for a major attack on a town in northeastern Nigeria. More than two thousand people were reportedly killed in the attack in Baga town, the worst...
Both the president and prime minister of Yemen resigned today in the wake of a rapid series of events in the capital, Sana’a that included the takeover of the presidential palace this week by...
The long-awaited trial of a CIA whistleblower continues this week in a U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Virginia. But the prosecution is going forward without what they’d hope would be their star witness against...
The so-called Islamic State released another video Tuesday, threatening to kill two Japanese hostages if they did not receive a $200 million ransom within 72 hours. The demand captured the attention of major Western...
The US Supreme Court heard arguments today in a case that could have broad implications for judicial candidates. Nell Abram reports from Tampa. Download Audio The case is Williams-Yulee v. the Florida Bar, and...
Democrat Tom Wolf was inaugurated today as the new governor of Pennsylvania, after defeating the Republican incumbent, Tom Corbett. Both are big supporters of fracking for natural gas, an industrial process that is turning...
All photos by Lena Nozizwe. Hear her accompanying radio report here. Click on any thumbnail image to launch slideshow.
In 2015, observation of Martin Luther King Jr.’s life and death is taking on a level of intensity unseen in many years. Protesters around the country have been engaging in activism that goes far...