India's Supreme Court ruled that all coal mining licenses awarded between 1993 and 2010 are illegal, citing corruption in the approval process. Over 200 licenses may be cancelled.
In addition to breaking strikes and killing miners, the mammoth Grupo México mining company has now managed to contaminate two rivers near the US border.
The Obama administration regularly sends underage asylum seekers back to face gang violence in Honduras. At least five have been murdered in just one city this year.
Even some of Aristide's opponents doubt the qualifications of the judge investigating charges of corruption during the former president's second term.
The UN mission in Haiti influenced the creation of special urban police units in Brazil—and helped the Brazilian military make up for shortfalls in its training budget.
Thousands of Yazidi refugees who have fled the Sinjar region of northern Iraq have been denied entry into Turkey by military forces, and are stranded in the mountains.
A wave of terror blasts, including at a Shi'ite mosque, left 35 dead across Iraq, as the Pentagon prepares surveillance flights over ISIS territory in Syria.
Kurdish Peshmerga, PKK fighters, Iraqi and Syrian government forces, Shi'ite militias, and Syrian rebels are all mobilizing to resist as ISIS advances on multiple fronts.
A Yazidi militia is fighting alongside Peshmerga to re-take Sinjar from ISIS, while the UN's Iraq envoy warned of an imminent massacre of Turkmen at ISIS-besieged Amerli.
Aug. 21 marked the one-year anniversary of the chemical weapon attack on the Damascus suburb of Ghouta, found by international investigations to have been the work of the Bashar Assad regime. The Syrian diaspora around the world held protests and… Read moreOne Year of Breathing Death
Opposition activists say they have confirmed 27 cases of chemical gas use in Syria since the UN passed UNSCR 2118, calling for destruction of all chemical weapons in the country.
Up to 70 were massacred during prayers at a Sunni mosque in Iraq's Diyala governorate—apparently by a Shi'ite militia seeking retribution for a bomb attack on their forces.
