Diane’s farewell message
After 52 years at WAMU, Diane Rehm says goodbye.
President Barack Obama speaks April 23 about hostages killed in a CIA drone strike during a press conference in the White House in Washington, D.C.
The White House discloses that a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan accidentally killed two al-Qaida hostages. At an emergency meeting in Brussels, European Union leaders promise to put more resources behind solving the worsening migrant crisis in the Mediterranean. Saudi Arabia resumes airstrikes in Yemen, after saying it would scale back its air campaign in favor of diplomacy. Egypt’s Mohammed Morsi is sentenced to 20 years in prison for the arrest and torture of protesters during his tenure as president. And Armenians mark 100 years since the start of mass killings by the Ottoman Empire. A panel of journalists joins Diane to round up the week’s top news.
Guests
- Christian Caryl Senior fellow, Legatum Institute; contributing editor, Foreign Policy magazine; senior fellow, MIT Center for International Studies; author of "Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century."
- Nancy Youssef Senior defense and national security correspondent, The Daily Beast.
- James Kitfield Contributing editor, National Journal and senior fellow at the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress
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