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Turkey: Flotilla Fallout

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 20:21:15 -0400

_pap_embed('frow03s407dq1cc'); It was less than three years ago that Israel's President Shimon Peres addressed the Turkish Parliament, the first Israeli president to speak before a Muslim assembly. The two countries were even working jointly on a Turkish-funded plan to bring...

Kyrgyz Politics: Exiled Reformer Returns

Fri, 14 May 2010 17:21:28 -0400

Ten days after returning to his homeland to take a position in a new interim government, a young reformer talks candidly about the challenges of stabilizing a country engulfed by violent political upheaval only a month earlier.

Crisis in Kyrgyzstan

Fri, 09 Apr 2010 23:54:01 -0400

_pap_embed_43('frow03s3dffq1cc'); Just five years after a violent revolution shook Kyrgyzstan, this former Soviet Republic woke up to more upheaval on Wednesday morning, when violent protests rocked the country's capital Bishkek. Dozens were killed and hundreds wounded in clashes with riot...

Moscow Bombings: Online Radio's Raw Response

Wed, 31 Mar 2010 22:21:22 -0400

Reporters at a small online radio station describe how they responded to the attacks when information from state media was scarce.

Chechnya's Hidden War

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:11:07 -0400

Correspondent Anna Badkhen checks in from Grozny, where a still-simmering insurgency and brutal government crackdown continue to plague Chechnya.

Haiti Quake: Keeping Haiti's Internet Alive

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:33:40 -0400

_pap_embed('frow03s3967qd7b'); With lives in the balance and medicine in short supply, the internet could seem like an afterthought in Haiti. But Paolo Chilosi, who runs Multilink, a leading internet provider in Haiti, says the net is as vital as food...

Haiti Quake: Improvisation Amid the Chaos

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 01:04:46 -0400

_pap_embed('frow03s38b5qd7b'); After suffering the worst earthquake in a century, the scale of Haiti's devastation is still unfolding. The nation has no electricity, cell phone coverage and land lines are down, but Paolo Chilosi, who runs Multilink, an internet provider in...

Bolivia: Back on the Road With Evo

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 21:12:26 -0400

Following Evo Morales' recent election landslide, Bolivian video journalist Tupac Saavedra talks with iWitness about why Morales remains so popular with the majority of Bolivians.

Reflections: The End of a Divided Germany

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:34:39 -0400

I grew up in West Germany during the Cold War, with one side of my family from the East and the other from the West. And even though I've lived in the U.S. for well over a decade, I am still deeply moved by what happened the summer and fall of 1989.

Peru: Kiva's Web-based Microfinance Growing Up

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:57:55 -0400

Three years after we broadcast our phenomenally popular story about Kiva, the San Francisco-based nonprofit that helps thousands of small businesses with microloans across the developing world, we check back in with the company on its fourth anniversary.

Honduras: Standoff at the Embassy

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:26:44 -0400

Honduras' left-leaning president, Manuel Zelaya, who was deposed in a coup back on June 28, has returned to the country. We spoke to Al Jazeera's Monica Villamizar, who has been following the story, which, she says, has become a test case in Latin America for how the U.S. handles the crisis.

China: Wall Scholar

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:03:04 -0400

There is apparently no formula to becoming an expert on the Great Wall of China. David Spindler was a graduate student in Beijing back in the early 1990s when he began trekking the wall and studying ancient documents to reveal its secrets. His passion for the wall's history is now the subject of two new exhibits.

Afghanistan: A Stolen Election?

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:57:35 -0400

It's a pivotal time for Afghanistan. Allegations continue to stack up that Hamid Karzai and his supporters have rigged the election, and a change in U.S. policy to put more troops on the ground is losing public support.

Swaziland: The King and the Web

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 02:47:51 -0400

Can an internet conference challenge the status quo in a country with the highest rate of HIV/AIDs in the world and an absolute monarch reluctant to change?

Jailed In Iran, A Reporter's Story

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:09:24 -0400

Photojournalist Iason Athanasiadis-Fowden was in Iran covering the recent elections when he was arrested and charged with espionage.