Russia, China Block Another U.N. Resolution On Syria
Transcript JACKIE NORTHAM, BYLINE: I'm Jackie Northam in Washington. Today at the U.N., Russia and China vetoed a Western-backed draft resolution that warned of sanctions against the Syrian regime...
View ArticleJapan's Nuclear Debate Weighs Safety, Economics
At 6 p.m. every Friday — with the kind of precision timing the Japanese live by — the protests in downtown Tokyo begin. Thousands of Japanese — young, old, in wheelchairs and on skateboards — shout...
View ArticleJapan Looks For Ways To Help Evacuees
Japanese officials are experimenting with ways to help people displaced by last year's earthquake and tsunami. One idea is to create parallel towns where everyone from the dog-catcher to the...
View ArticleOn Remote Island, The Dead Are Buried Far And Wide
Grindstone Island's lone public dock is just three miles north of the U.S. mainland, a straight shot by powerboat across the St. Lawrence River from Clayton, N.Y. Part of the Thousand Islands,...
View ArticleFather Of Pakistan's Nukes Enters Politics
The man known as the father of Pakistan's nuclear weapons program, Abdul Qadeer Kahn, is a national hero in Pakistan — and a villain in much of the West. Now, the controversial scientist is trying his...
View ArticlePakistani Minister Stands By Bounty For Filmmaker
Despite international condemnation, Pakistan's railways minister says he isn't backing down from his $100,000 bounty offer to anyone who kills the maker of the anti-Islam film Innocence of...
View ArticleFaltering Economy Threatens Pakistan's Stability
If you want to gain a good insight into Pakistan's economic situation, just look at a few of the country's newspaper headlines on any given day. The language says it all: prices soar, stocks plunge,...
View ArticleHow The Taliban Is Thwarting The War On Polio
Pakistan is one of the remaining corners of the world where polio still lingers. Last year, the government declared a national emergency, and with the help of international institutions, embarked on an...
View ArticleBlasphemy Charges On The Rise In Pakistan
Pakistan has had 27 blasphemy cases filed so far this year, a figure that alarms human rights groups, who say the law is frequently used to persecute religious minorities. In a case that has drawn...
View ArticlePrisoner Release Shifts Pakistan's Afghan Policy
There has been a small but potentially important breakthrough in the faltering Afghan peace process. In what is considered a good-faith gesture, Pakistan last week released at least nine Afghan Taliban...
View ArticleIn Pakistan Shooting, Malala's Friends Also Bear Scars
On Oct. 9, in Mingora, Pakistan, in the country's picturesque Swat Valley, Kainat Riaz left her high school and climbed into the back of a small van. The bright-eyed 16-year-old sat near another...
View ArticleIn Pakistan, Secrets Of A 3,000-Year-Old Cemetery
High on a hill overlooking Pakistan's scenic Swat Valley sits a recently excavated cemetery. Italian archaeologist Luca Maria Olivieri walks across the site and lays a sun-beaten hand on a clay slab...
View ArticleFuture Of U.S. Troops Looms Over Afghan Leader's Visit
Afghan President Hamid Karzai is in Washington this week for meetings with President Obama and other senior administration officials. The talks are expected to help set the framework for U.S....
View ArticleObama: U.S. Forces Will Transition To Support Role In Afghanistan
Transcript MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Melissa Block. The leader of Afghanistan has had a rocky relationship with the U.S., but today at the White House,...
View Article'Algerian Style': Cooperative, To A Point
The Algerian government gave no advance notice that it was planning to launch a military operation to rescue hostages at the remote In Amenas natural gas field, despite offers of support and advice by...
View ArticleObama's Promise To Close Guantanamo Prison Falls Short
In one of his first acts as commander in chief, President Obama in 2009 signed an executive order to close the U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.It was part of a campaign promise the...
View ArticleAmusement Park Planned In The Town Where Bin Laden Hid Out
Developers in Pakistan will soon break ground on a new amusement park and outdoor activity center, a private, $30 million project billed as a state-of-the-art facility that will bring jobs to a...
View ArticleControversial Cleric Stirs Protests Upon Return To Pakistan
In Pakistan, a controversial Muslim cleric has been shaking up the political scene.Dr. Tahir-ul-Qadri returned to his home country late last year, after spending eight years in Canada.
View ArticleAt A Pakistani Mobile Library, Kids Can Check Out Books, And Hope
On a cold, rainy morning, a van pulls up outside a rural elementary school on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan's capital. The fluorescent green vehicle provides a flash of color on this otherwise...
View ArticleGoogle's Eric Schmidt Heads To Another Isolated Asian Nation
Google's executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, who went to North Korea in January, is making a short visit Friday to Myanmar, also known as Burma.Why is the senior executive of a U.S. technology powerhouse...
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