Protesters crashed the opening of the Expominas trade fair at the Quito Exhibition Center, where Ecuador's government sought to win new investors for the mineral and oil sectors.
A new study published in Science finds that the critical Quelccaya Ice Cap in the Peruvian Andes has shrunk to it smallest extent since the end of the last Ice Age.
Peru's President Ollanta Humala is under growing pressure from the right-wing opposition to grant a "humanitarian" pardon to imprisoned ex-dictator Alberto Fujimori.
Peru's President Ollanta Humala oversaw a ceremony at Lucanamarca village, delivering a "symbolic" package of reparations for the massacre there in April 1983.
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius announced a “permanent” military mission in Mali, and said Tuareg rebels must disarm and accept “confinement.”
For a fourth consecutive day, young Palestinians in Hebron clashed with Israeli troops in protests over the death of an eldery prisoner in Israeli custody.
Rival online campaigns are waged by the "Topless Jihad" and Muslim Women Against Femen. Is the Topless Jihad a defense of women's freedom, or imperialist propaganda?
Opposition activists from Syrian President Bashar Assad's Alawite sect publicly broke ranks with the regime at a meeting in Cairo, and urged their fellow Alawites in the army to rebel.
Malian troops swept Timbuktu for remaining Islamist fighters after a battle that left seven dead and prompted France to send reinforcements and fighter jets.
Peru’s Congress has opened a high-profile investigation into a contract with Israeli security firm Global CST, entered into by the previous government of Álan García.
The indigenous Yukpa people of Venezuela’s Sierra de Perijá have repeatedly marched on Caracas to demand the demarcation and titling of their ancestral territory. Sabino Romero, the Yukpa leader who was assassinated two days before the death of Hugo Chávez,… Read moreIndigenous peoples march on Caracas
Sebastián Muñoz, founder of the bicyclists' rights group Andando en Bici Carajo in Quito, Ecuador, was struck by a car and killed while on his bicycle.
