Some 1,400 African migrants—including whole families and asylum-seekers—were rounded up by riot police in a series of raids in Algiers, and apparently face summary deportation.
After weeks of protest, the Army Corps of Engineers denied approval for the last remaining easement needed for the Dakota Access Pipeline—but the company pledges completion.
As thousands of civilians flee the Assad regime's advance on Aleppo, rebel groups are charging that the Kurdish-led People's Protection Units are collaborating in the offensive.
An Indonesian court dismissed a class-action suit seeking to force the Aceh provincial government to protect the threatened Leuser Ecosystem in its land-use plan.
Illegal gold mining in Peru has razed almost 62,500 hectares of rainforest—an area over ten times the size of Manhattan—over the past four years.
With Colombia's Congress voting to approve the revised peace accord with the FARC rebels, the country is on a countdown to the full demobilization of the guerilla army.
Bloody internecine fighting in Guerrero state fuels fears that Mexico's anti-narco "community police" groups could themselves be co-opted by the warring cartels.
A joint security force bringing together the three nations of Central America's Northern Triangle officially began operations to fight narco-gangs and organized crime.
Ruins of Aleppo after months of bombardment by Bashar Assad and his Russian allies. In the 1930s, the American left could claim solidarity with those who stood up to the authors of the Guernica terror in Spain. Today, in vivid contrast, it… Read moreAmerican ‘left’ abets genocide in Syria
A group of human rights lawyers in Germany filed a criminal complaint against Syrian dictator Bashar Assad on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Security forces in Uganda arrested the traditional king of Rwenzururu amid claims he was harboring militants seeking independence for the semi-autonomous region.
At the APEC the summit in Lima, China and Peru signed a series of bilateral agreements to advance "free trade" and cooperation in the mineral and resource sectors.
