Adam Mynott

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Adam Mynott appears in the following:

Extradition Process Underway for War Crimes Fugitive Ratko Mladic

Thursday, May 26, 2011

Ratko Mladic was seized in Serbia on Thursday after he'd been in hiding for over a decade. The former general has been charged with genocide, he's been held responsible for the massacre of over 7,000 Muslims in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica in 1995 and has evaded justice ever since. The BBC's world affairs correspondent Adam Mynott reports.

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Pakistani Neuroscientist Sentenced to 86 Years

Friday, September 24, 2010

In the U.S., she's considered a terrorist. At home in Pakistan, she's a hero. Aafia Siddiqui, an M.I.T.-educated, Pakistani neuroscientist was convicted of attempting to kill American soldiers and F.B.I. agents in a Manhattan Federal District Court on Thursday. The BBC's Adam Mynott reports live from Islamabad.

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US Companies Must Disclose Ties to Rebel Mines in Congo

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Deep within the 2,300 page legislation on financial reform that President Obama signed into law last week is a provision that pertains to the Democratic Republic of Congo. The new financial regulation law will require thousands of U.S. companies to disclose whether their products contain minerals from rebel-controlled mines in Congo. Many of these minerals, like tin, tungsten, gold and tantalum end up in our laptops, cell phones and other technologies; and these mines are helping to finance the ongoing conflict in Congo.

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Poll: World Likes US Better

Monday, April 19, 2010

A BBC World Service poll has found that the global view of the United States has improved significantly in the last year. More than 29,000 people across the world were asked whether they thought the influence of different countries was either mostly positive or mostly negative. It's the first time in five years that the U.S. has been viewed positively since the poll began in 2005.

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The Internet: The Biggest Threat to Endangered Species

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

The biggest threat to endangered species may not be loss of habitat or illegal poaching. Conservationists are concerned that the internet currently poses the biggest single threat to endangered species.

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Update from Haiti

Thursday, January 21, 2010

BBC World Affairs Correspondent Adam Mynott spent yesterday in a hospital in Port-au-Prince. He reports on the latest situation on the ground and how food is being distributed throughout the city.

"I think probably too much time has been spent setting up processes, securing sites, and deciding programs, and actually they should have simply dumped some food on the streets and allowed the people who are here, who need it desperately, to get their hands on it"

--Adam Mynott

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This Week's Agenda with Reihan Salam and Adam Mynott

Monday, December 07, 2009

Reihan Salam, fellow at the New America Foundation; and Adam Mynott, BBC world affairs correspondent, look at the week's agenda: what to look for from Copenhagen as international clim...

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This Week's Agenda With Marcus Mabry and Adam Mynott

Monday, November 02, 2009

Marcus Mabry, international business editor for The New York Times, and Adam Mynott, from the BBC, join us to take a look at the consequences of Abdullah Abdullah pulling out of the j...

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Pakistan Sees Increase in Violence

Thursday, October 15, 2009

BBC correspondent Adam Mynott joins us with a report on increasing violence in Pakistan. Earlier today, eleven people were killed when a car bomb exploded near a police station in the...

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Mourning in Paris for the Air France Victims

Wednesday, June 03, 2009

A memorial service is being held at the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris for the passengers of Air France Flight 447, which vanished off the coast of Brazil on its way to France. The BBC...

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India: The fallout continues

Monday, December 01, 2008

Adam Mynott talks to John Hockenberry about the fallout from the Mumbai attacks. Mynott reports from the largest railway station in Mumbai, the scene at the greatest death toll on Wed...

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World Diabetes Day

Friday, November 14, 2008

"People are starting to lose their sight, they're starting to lose limbs, they're getting heart disease -- all symptoms of diabetes. They're not aware what they're getting." --Adam ...

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