MEK in Court to Force US to Drop Terrorist Label Day-after-day, supporters of the Iranian opposition MEK hold protests outside the U.S. State Department in Washington, demanding the group be removed from the department's list of Foreign Terrorist Org...
US Investigates American Support of Iranian Dissident Group MITCHELL REISS: The U.S. State Department needs to de-list the MEK immediately! That was former U.S. Ambassador Mitchell Reiss, in April 2011. He is one of the prominent Americans demanding...
Iranian Dissident Group Seeks to Shed Terrorist Label The Iranian opposition group Mujahedin-e Khalq is pursuing a two-part campaign to get off of the U.S. State Department's list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations. One part is a public relations eff...
Israeli Court Orders Three West Bank Settlements Demolished The houses of Ulpana overlook Beit El, an Israeli settlement of 7,000 people not far from the major Palestinian city of Ramallah. The Israeli High Court has ruled that five of Ulpana's 14 bu...
Obama Hosts NATO, Focus on Afghanistan and Alliance Future Global Role The U.S. and NATO are withdrawing from Afghanistan under a timetable that will have all foreign combat forces out by 2014. Despite high profile Taliban attacks, NATO says Afghan g...
Earth Summit Strives for Energy for All Nearly two billion people, about one-third of the worlds population, don't have access to energy, according to the United Nations. At a preview of the summit, at the non-profit Center for Global Development in...
Music Industry Addresses Drug, Alcohol Problems The shocking stories are familiar - lives cut short by alcohol and drug abuse. Cocaine contributed to Whitney Houston's death. She drowned in her bathtub in a Beverly Hills hotel earlier this year. Mich...
Cigars Are on a Roll in United States While cigarette smoking has been slowly declining in the face of massive regulation and anti-tobacco campaigns in the United States, cigar smoking has held steady generally and is on the rise among teens. In all...
Egypt's Politics Move Ahead, Economy Lags Behind Egypt's revolution bears fruit this month with the nation's first widely-contested presidential election. But another force behind last year's uprising - economic discontent - has yet to be eased. For...
New Movie Boosts Campaign to Save Polar Bears Polar bears are in trouble. Scientists say only 20,000 remain, and their long term survival could be at risk. The new IMAX movie, To the Arctic, is narrated by actress Meryl Streep. The movie tells the st...
Conductor Courts Diverse Audiences Morgan believes introducing music to young students is key to attracting more people of color to classical music. He knows firsthand. By the time he reached third grade, knowing he wanted to be a conductor, Morgan s...
Protesters Camp Out in Central Moscow Several hundred opposition activists are camping out in the Chistye Prudy area of central Moscow, in an action organizers are now calling Occupy Abai, after the 19th century Kazakh poet and philosopher Abai Kunan...
Syria Bombings Could Signal al-Qaidas Engagement Protesters flee gunfire in the Syrian town of Aleppo. And near Damascus, amateur video shows United Nations peace monitors edging their vans through anti-government protesters. The protests came after...
Burma's Exiled Activists Consider Returning Home Political crackdowns were the once-defining images of Burma's notorious military regime. Since 1988, thousands of civilians were killed or thrown in prison. Many more escaped abroad. Activist Khin Ohma...
US Fencers Prepare for Olympics Nzingha Prescod trains at the Fencers Club in New York City. The Columbia University student began fencing at the age of nine, and is trying to contain her excitement about going to the Olympics. I don't think I want t...
