Friday News Roundup - International

Friday News Roundup - International

Syria accepted a U.N. peace plan but violence persisted in the country as President Assad visited Homs; the U.S. suspended food aid to North Korea over Pyongyang's plan to launch a long-range missile; and the Pope ended his historic trip to Cuba with a call for greater freedom there. Nancy Youssef of McClatchy Newspapers, Mark Mardell of the BBC and Indira Lakshmanan of Bloomberg News.

Syria accepted a U.N. peace plan but violence persisted in the country as President Assad visited Homs; the U.S. suspended food aid to North Korea over Pyongyang's plan to launch a long-range missile; and the Pope ended his historic trip to Cuba with a call for greater freedom there. Nancy Youssef of McClatchy Newspapers, Mark Mardell of the BBC and Indira Lakshmanan of Bloomberg News.

Guests

Nancy Youssef

Pentagon correspondent, McClatchy newspapers.

Mark Mardell

BBC North America editor.

Indira Lakshmanan

senior reporter, Bloomberg News.

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As long as Saudi Arabia runs the system of education in Pakistan and creates tens of thousands of ignorant and violent talibans/islamists and the mullah mafia in Iran is allowed to exist, Afghanistan and the world will not see any peace.

March 30, 2012 - 12:41 pm

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August 17, 2012 - 11:53 am

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