On Oct. 1, China's National Day, several hundred New Yorkers—overwhelmingly of Chinese descent, and many from Hong Kong—gathered in Times Square to support the Occupy Central movement. Attendees carried umbrellas in solidarity with the Hong Kong protesters, who have used… Read moreNew Yorkers support Hong Kong
Satellite photos released by NASA reveal that the eastern basin of the Aral Sea has completely dried up. Water levels are less than 10% of what they were 50 years ago.
Turkish troops opened fire on Kurdish refugees attempting to flee the tightening ISIS siege of Kobani in northern Syria, as ISIS forces advanced within 40 kilometers of Baghdad.
Supporters of José Manuel Mireles Valverde, imprisoned leader of the self-defense forces in violence-torn Michoacán, are holding a protest mobilization to demand his release.
Instagram was blocked in mainland China in an evident attempt to stop images of pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong as street clashes entered their third day.
Guerillas affiliated with the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI) clashed with Iranian military forces near the Iraq border, leaving a senior army commander dead.
The US-led coalition launched its first air-strikes targeting ISIS positions outside the besieged Kurdish town of Kobani, where PKK fighters are holding out against the jihadists.
Despite peace talks with the FARC, armed conflict and displacement persist as threats to Colombia's indigenous peoples, according to the country's indigenous organization.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports that ISIS has recruited more than 6,000 new fighters since the US-led air-strikes began.
The Israeli military's Civil Administration on the West Bank has filed plans for a new settlement in the Jordan Valley, where thousands of Bedouins will be forced to relocate.
Investigators exhumed 21 bodies at a remote hamlet in Peru's Andes—believed to be those of peasants massacred on suspicion of being guerilla collaborators in 1984.
The president of Colombia's Ecopetrol, Javier Genaro Gutiérrez, announced that the state oil company will start processing licenses for the use of fracking technology.
