A federal jury in Florida found former Chilean lieutenant Pedro Pablo Barrientos Nuñez liable for the 1973 detention, torture and execution of folksinger Víctor Jara.
Peru's northern trans-Andean oil pipeline suffered its third serious rupture of the year, spilling over 1,000 barrels of crude into an expanse of the Amazon rainforest.
Panama opened the long-awaited expanded canal, designed to accommodate new "mega-ships." But the drought-stricken country struggles to conserve water for the giant locks.
Francisca Ramírez Torres, leader of the movement against the planned Nicaraguan canal, was arrested without charge by National Police agents in a raid on her village.
Thousands of people attended the funeral of slain qawwali singer Amjad Sabri in Karachi, the day after he was shot dead in an attack claimed by the Pakistani Taliban.
Colombia's feared anti-riot force, the ESMAD, used tear-gas against campesinos occupying lands in the Amazonian department of Caquetá to block oil exploration efforts.
Colombia’s constitutional court overturned a 2012 government decree that allowed mining in nine areas of the country, together making up 20% of the national territory.
The Colombian government announced that it has agreed to a bilateral ceasefire with the FARC guerillas—hailed as an historic step toward a deal to end the long civil war.
Pakistan and Afghanistan saw deadly border clashes and a tense stand-off over Islamabad's plan to build a barbed-wire separation barrier at its Torkham crossing.
Police fired on striking teachers blocking a road through Mexico's southern Oaxaca state, leaving six dead—a significant escalation in the battle over a proposed education reform.
Traditional pastoralists from Ethiopia's drought-stricken Somali region crossed the border into Somliland in search of pasture, but it proved a false hope. Many are now stranded as hundreds of camels died in Somliland's parched plains. More than half a million… Read moreEl Niño and Ethiopia’s threatened pastoraists
Peru's president-elect Pedro Pablo Kuczynski has unveiled a platform that calls for privatizing and "individualizing" communal lands to facilitate mineral and agribusiness development.
