A decade after striking workers were massacred at Hacienda Luisita in Central Luzon, nobody has been brought to justice. Survivors now demand resignation of President Aquino.
Martin Dempsey, head of the US joint chiefs of staff, arrived in Baghdad, where he admitted that "we're certainly considering" sending US ground troops to assist in re-taking Mosul.
China, the top emitter of greenhouse gases, has for the first time pledged to cap emissions—but is following the US and EU in carbon trading schemes as the means to achieve the cuts.
The capture of "Marquitos," reigning crime lord of Colombia's La Guajira region, was followed by revelations of his deadly dealings with local paramilitaries and politicians.
Indigenous communities in Guatemala are to receive reparations for massacres aimed at clearing the land for the World Bank-funded Chixoy hydroelectric project.
A raid by a new DEA-trained Honduran anti-narco force took down the country's reigning kingpin, José Inocente Valle, who possessed a cache of gold bars stamped "SINALOA."
A Nasa indigenous court in Toribio, in Colombia's Cauca department, convicted seven FARC guerillas over the murder of two members of the local Indigenous Guard.
Hundreds of thousands from across Saudi Arabia converged on a village for the funeral for victims of a sectarian attack, chanting "Sunnis and Shi'ites, we are brothers!"
US Army Gen. John Campbell questions whether the Afghan military is prepared to take on a resurgent Taliban, with militant attacks at their highest levels since 2011.
The Egyptian army is destroying hundreds of Bedouin homes along the Gaza border to create a "security zone," while the Israeli army razed more Bedouin homes on the West Bank.
Police clashed with protesters in Peru's northern city of Cajamarca during a demonstration over the police slaying of a barrio resident—one of several social conflicts across the region.
A joint force of Syrian Kurdish YPG militia, Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga and Free Syrian Army units launched a new offensive at Kobani, driving back ISIS west of the city.
