As the death count nears 150, the campesino struggle for land in the Lower Aguán Valley of Honduras continues—with the military and the police taking the landowners' side.
Hundreds of campesino families sat in at 18 bank branches in three Brazilian states to demand that the government restore cuts to a low-income housing program.
Released documents reveal that US diplomats didn't "condone" the use of torture and summary executions by the Brazilian dictatorship—but they certainly didn't condemn it.
A Chilean judge has now confirmed old suspicions that US intelligence agents "played a fundamental role" in the murders of two US citizens in the wake of the 1973 military coup.
Lawyers for Guantánamo detainees seek a restraining order barring the government from depriving inmates of the right to pray communally during the month of Ramadan.
Mounting reprisal attacks between Israelis and Palestinians follow Netanyahu's pronouncement upon the death of the three Israeli youths: "May God avenge their blood."
As Syrians put their lives on the line to oppose a genocidal regime, Bob Dreyfuss in The Nation calls on the US to back Bashar Assad to beat back ISIS.
The European Union has called on Afghanistan to conduct a more extensive investigation into vote-rigging in the presidential election which remains contested.
Pakistan's parliament passed a new anti-terrorism bill that allows warrantless searches and detention of suspects at secret facilities for up to 60 days without charge.
Officials in Brazil warn that isolated indigenous groups in the Amazon face imminent "tragedy" and "death" following a rash of sightings in the remote area near the border with Peru.
Three leaders of Peru's Shining Path guerrilla movement, two still at large, were indicted in a US district court in New York on charges of "narco-terrorism conspiracy."
A protected witness testified to Mexican prosecutors that members of the US Border Patrol collaborated with the Sinaloa Cartel in arms trafficking to the criminal network.
