Davos 2012 - Special Conversation

Dan Gillerman, Israel's former-Permanent Representative to the UN, had strong words about the U.S., the international community, and Iran.

" /> "As significant as 1989 when the Berlin wall came down, overwhelmingly the story of 2012 is centered in the Middle East," says Freedom House's Arch Puddington. "People were inspired by events in Egypt, they started demanding their rights."

The UN Security Council's failure to pass a proposed resolution on Syria has put the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine 'in major crisis,' argues Stewart Patrick, director of CFR's International Institutions and Global Governance program.

A Protest in Moscow last weekend drew thousands, but so far the Kremlin is taking it in stride.

There are reports of new violence against anti-government protesters in the city of Homs.

Growing protests and police mutiny force Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed to resign.

Amateur video emerged on Tuesday, said to have been filmed a day earlier, purporting to show people evacuating a building allegedly being shelled by Syrian government troops as they continued their assault on the restive city of Homs.

Residents worry about aftershocks in the wake of 6.7 magnitude earthquake in the central Philippines.

Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro made a rare public appearance to introduce his two-volume memoir. The 1,000 page memoir covers his life from childhood through just before the Cuban revolution.

As protestors clashed with Egyptian police, 17 Americans are facing charges of encouraging the unrest that has engulfed the country for nearly a year. Norah O'Donnell spoke with one of the accused who was home in Washington, D.C. when the charges were announced.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper says Canada wants to expand economic ties with China, in the wake of the U.S. decision to block the Keystone oil pipeline project.

Speaking at a campaign event in Golden, CO Monday, GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich said American hostages in Egypt who will be tried, is similar to the Iranian hostage crisis, during President Jimmy Carter's tenure.

White House Spokesperson Jay Carney said the administration's tough new sanctions against Iran amid tensions about Tehran's nuclear program and the specter of an Israeli attack on the Islamic republic, should not be surprising.