The hemispheric human rights court has condemned Dominican policies on immigrants and their descendants; now the Dominican government wants to pull out of the court.
An editorial in the "newspaper of record" and remarks by a top diplomat have raised hopes for a new US policy on Cuba—or is it another false alarm?
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.
Amid new unrest at the Temple Mount, Israeli Housing Minister Uri Ariel alarmingly said that Israel will eventually replace al-Aqsa Mosque with a Jewish temple.
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.
As protests continue in Hong Kong, a new film profiles Joshua Wong and other young leaders of the movement, highlighting contradictions—including in their stance towards the West.
Libya's Supreme Court declared unconstitutional the UN-backed elected parliament, which has taken refuge in Tobruk, in a victory for the "rebel" parliament in Tripoli.
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.
