Mexico City--With a brand new Americas office in Mexico City, Amnesty International wants to tackle the "hidden crisis" afflicting human rights in the...
Mexico City--With a brand new Americas office in Mexico City, Amnesty International wants to tackle the "hidden crisis" afflicting human rights in the...
Kuala Lumpur--Malaysia's ruling coalition prevailed in a parliamentary by-election but by a reduced margin, one of two votes this week viewed as tests...
Washington--The family of an American tank commander who won three historic paintings playing poker during World War II returned the stolen art treasures...
Bissau--Guinea-Bissau has made enough progress on economic reforms since the election of its new president last year to be eligible for a $23.9-million...
Bogota--Two decades after it started spraying coca fields with herbicide, Colombia is torn between continuing to wage a US-sponsored war on drugs from...
Miami--The world's largest hurricane simulator is now complete and experts hope it will improve forecasters' ability to predict how strong a storm will...
Washington--US investigators probed the background of two slain gunmen Tuesday after the Islamic State group claimed it had ordered an attack targeting an...
Djerba, Tunisia--The Jewish pilgrimage to Ghriba synagogue on the Tunisian island of Djerba is to take place Wednesday under extra security after the...
United Nations, United States--The UN Security Council will hold a special meeting next week to discuss ways to address the crisis sparked by...
London--Britain's anti-EU, anti-immigration UK Independence Party on Tuesday suspended a parliamentary candidate two days from a general election for apparently threatening to shoot...
Washington--Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton called Tuesday for a plan to regulate some of the 11 million illegal immigrants in the United States,...
Berlin--A widening scandal over claims Germany helped the US spy on European targets triggered tensions in Angela Merkel's coalition Tuesday, which analysts said...
Washington--US President Barack Obama met the head of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region at the White House on Tuesday, courting a vital ally on...
Ottawa--An appeals court delayed Tuesday the release of former Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr from a Canadian jail in order to mull arguments that...
Skopje--At least 19 people were injured Tuesday, including 15 police officers and a photographer, when an anti-government protest in Macedonian capital turned violent....
London--Britain's political leaders were in a final push for votes ahead of Thursday's knife-edge general election, while gearing up for the likelihood of...
Mexico City--At least two workers died and 10 were injured Tuesday when an oil maintenance platform tilted over the sea off Mexico's east...
Kinshasa--An unknown number of UN peacekeepers were killed in an ambush near the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo city Beni, the head of...
