Monthly Archive: January 2016
In the early morning hours of Friday, Turkish police raided the homes of academics who signed a petition calling for the resumption of peace talks with Kurdish rebels. Nell Abram has more. Download Audio...
Humanitarian aid finally began to trickle into three towns in Syria this week where aid workers described horrific scenes of both adults and children literally starving to death. Download Audio UN Secretary General Ban...
Germany is cracking down on asylum seekers two weeks after hundreds of women complained of being harassed, groped and sexually assaulted outside Cologne’s main train station during a chaotic New Year’s Eve in which...
*EDITORS NOTE: The jury in the Delta 5 case returned a mixed verdict on Friday, January 15, 2016. The defendants were found guilty of trespass, not guilty of obstruction. The state recommended suspended sentences....
Brazil’s biggest city, Sao Paulo, is experiencing a new wave of protests that began a day before a proposed hike in public transport fees took effect. So far, the protests have been violently repressed...
U.S. President Barack Obama delivered his seventh and final State of the Union address last night to a joint session of Congress in a chamber filled with guests. The speech was crafted around four...
Just one day after the president’s final State of the Union address, the Obama administration announced plans to expand its refugee program to include processing centers in the three most violence-plagued countries of Central...
Among the topics President Barack Obama is expected to address during the State of the Union address tonight is the U.S. role in resettling refugees fleeing violence in Syria and Iraq. As a symbolic...
Mexico is considering an extradition request from the United States for drug lord, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, who was arrested Friday. Shannon Young has more. Download Audio The third arrest of Sinaloa Cartel leader...
German police say migrants have been attacked in the streets of Cologne in what authorities fear could be a violent backlash against refugees. Tensions have been especially high since New Year’s Eve, when hundreds...