The Andes
El Niño impacts deepen Ecuador quake disaster
Rescue efforts in Ecuador's quake-ravaged Manabí province are hindered by damaged roads—repeatedly hit by flooding linked to this year's severe El Niño phenomenon.
Iraq
Iraq: protesters demand new government
Protests demanding resignation of Haider al-Abadi's government shook Baghdad, with parliament sessions repeatedly cancelled because the chamber could not be secured.
Watching the Shadows
Nine Gitmo detainees transfered to Saudi Arabia
The Defense Department announced the transfer of nine Yemeni Guantánamo Bay detainees to Saudi Arabia, bringing to 80 the number held at the facility.
Palestine
Bernie bucks Washington consensus on Israel
It is a real moral and political victory that the first US presidential candidate to break with Washington's anti-Palestinian consensus is a Jewish guy.
Europe
Mass deportations to Turkey must stop: rights groups
Thousands of migrants are being held in detention camps in Greece and many are returned to Turkey without proper asylum hearings, rights groups and aid agencies protest.
East Asia
Real threat in North Korea: regime collapse
North Korea's missile tests point to a desperate regime trying to keep its own populace distracted, and to spook the international community into providing food aid.
East Asia
China: lawyer detained for post mocking president
Civil rights lawyer Ge Yongxi was detained by Chinese authorities for posts on social media that "poked fun" at President Xi Jinping in relation to the Panama Papers.
Greater Middle East
Assad to The Hague? Inshallah…
An independent investigative body says it has amassed enough documentation of Bashar Assad's war crimes to bring him before the International Criminal Court.
Central America
Clinton calls for Central American ‘Plan Colombia’
Hillary Clinton is assailed for saying the 2009 Honduran coup “actually followed the law.” Overlooked in the same interview is her call for a Central American “Plan Colombia.”
Afghanistan
Drone ‘Kill List’ target speaks
Malik Jalal, a community leader from Pakistan's tribal areas, traveled to the UK to speak out, claiming he is on the US drone "Kill List" for his efforts to broker peace with the Taliban.
Greater Middle East
Bernie Sanders must drop Tulsi Gabbard!
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, a key supporter of Bernie Sanders, is also a supporter of the genocidal dictatorship of Bashar Assad. Bernie’s partisans urgently need to call him on this.
The Andes
Peru elections: ‘dangerous farce’?
Far-right Keiko Fujimori is headed for the second round in a Peruvian presidential race so marked by controversies and irregularities that The Economist calls it a "dangerous farce."