Colombia’s presidential election is developing into an unexpectedly tight race between hardline ex-defense minister Juan Manuel Santos and reformist Green Party candidate Antanas Mockus.
Indigenous communities in Colombia’s Cauca department issued a statement calling upon all armed fighters to leave their territory, following clashes that left many civilians dead.
Anti-labor violence is again reaching a peak in Colombia, with four education workers assassinated in the northern coastal department of CĂłrdoba since January.
Through a satellite link from a US prison, former Colombian paramilitary chief Salvatore Mancuso told his country’s Supreme Court that his illegal forces supported Ălvaro Uribe’s election in 2002.
The American Power Act written by Senators John Kerry and Joe Lieberman features carbon trading, more offshore drilling, and big subsidies for “clean coal” and “safe nuclear power.”
The Obama Justice Department weighed in for the first time on the case of Canadian citizen and “rendition” victim Maher Arar, calling for the Supreme Court not to hear his appeal.
Israel should investigate unlawful destruction of property during the 2009 Gaza hostilities and lift the blockade that hinders rebuilding, Human Rights Watch says in a new report.
Unionists are demanding answers following the apparent killing in custody of Sipho Jele, an activist in the Swaziland Agriculture and Plantation Workers’ Union (SAPWU) arrested during May Day protests.
Iranian teacher, trade unionist and human rights activist Farzad Kamangar was among five executed by hanging at Tehran's Evin Prison on charges of "moharebe," or enmity against God.
US drones killed 21 presumed Taliban militants in two separate strikes in Pakistan’s tribal region of North Waziristan. Ten drones were seen hovering over the area.
Dozens of schoolgirls in Afghanistan were hospitalized after two apparent poisonous gas attacks on their schools, the latest in a spate of similar incidents.
Textile workers leaving their factory shift in Hilla were among hundreds of Iraqis injured and 85 killed in a series of bomb attacks across the country on the bloodiest day this year.
