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  • The U.N. has operated in the Democratic Republic of the Congo for years. Thursday evening's attack was the bloodiest assault on peacekeeping forces in recent memory, according to a U.N. official.
    At Least 14 U.N. Peacekeepers Killed In Rebel Attack In Congo
    Five Congolese soldiers also died, and dozens of peacekeepers were wounded, in the attack on a base in eastern Congo. A U.N. official said it was the bloodiest assault on peacekeepers in 25 years.
  • Vaccinators in Peru's Amazon face many challenges including religion and rivers
    In the Peruvian Amazon, geography, religious beliefs and logistics make getting COVID-19 vaccines extremely difficult. But health care workers have not given up.
  • News By Web Log
    NPR's Laura Sydell reports that the war in Iraq has generated increased interest in blogs, short for web logs. Blogging is the web-based practice of keeping an ever-updated personal account of some subject. Bloggers have become archivists, culling information they feel is not being presented in mainstream media and providing links to foreign news sources.
  • Joey Cappuccitti, who works at a Maximus call center, talks with a person looking for help with New York's insurance exchange.
    New York's Insurance Exchange Readies For Holiday Rush
    As a Dec. 23 enrollment deadline for health insurance that starts Jan. 1 looms, New York state is staffing up its call center and smoothing out the rough spots on its application to meet growing demand. As time runs down, the state is trying to fix technical and design issues that came up when the site debuted in October.
  • "UN Role in Afghanistan:" A Commentary
    By Chip PittsDallas, TX – Before September 11, the U.S. wasn't too enthusiastic about the United Nations. It rightly advocated reform of the sometimes,…
  • Why We Can't Break Up With Big Tech
    Gizmodo's Kashmir Hill spent six weeks trying to cut Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Apple out of her life completely. "Spoiler," she says. "It's not possible."
  • Top Stories: Storm Damage, Facelift For FW Neighborhood And Challenges With Inhalers
    The top local stories this morning from KERA News:Early morning storms triggered tornado warnings in parts of Tarrant and Denton Counties. Winds of up to…
  • Hungarian police officers stop a group of refugees near a makeshift camp for asylum seekers in Roszke, southern Hungary, in September 2015.
    The Number Of Migrants And Refugees Arriving In Europe Tops 1 Million
    Most of them are from Syria, Africa and South Asia. The International Organization for Migration says this is the highest migration flow since World War II.
  • Political Prisoners and the Web
    We examine two of the most crucial issues of normalizing U.S.-Cuba relations: The exchange of political prisoners and the future of the Internet in Cuba.
  • Online Bookselling
    Borders Books has announced it is pulling out of the online bookselling business, allying its online brand with Amazon.com. And in hopes of increasing profits, Yahoo announced it is increasing its online retail presence by retailing pornography. Linda Wertheimer talks with Wendy Taylor of ZiffDavis' SmartBusiness online magazine about these Web developments.
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