Heavy fighting broke out in Benghazi as forces led by Gen. Khalifa Hafter attacked an alliance of Islamist militias—a move disavowed by Libya's central government in Tripoli.
Thousands of Turkish workers went on strike to express their outrage over the mining disaster at Soma, where angry protests by local miners and their families continue.
Human Rights Watch says it has strong evidence the Syrian government used chemical weapons on three rebel-held towns in the country's north last month.
The International Criminal Court has reopened a preliminary investigation into alleged mistreatment and killings of Iraqi detainees in Iraq by UK military forces.
Police in the Pakistani province of Punjab filed charges of blasphemy against 68 Shi'ite lawyers after they staged a protest against the police beating of one of their colleagues.
Human Rights Watch finds use of fully autonomous weapons to be an affront to basic human rights that should be preemptively banned by international convention.
Amid claims that Blackwater mercenaries are fighting for Kiev, come reports of reactionary neo-Cossack paramilitaries fighting for the separatists in Ukraine's east.
An uprising in a favela on hills overlooking the famed Copacabana beach spilled over into the posh tourist district below. Is Rio's "pacification" campaign backfiring?
Supporters of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) in Mexico's Chiapas state charge that a rival group is responsible for violence in which a Zapatista follower was killed.
The US has again listed Cuba as a sponsor of terrorism, while Cuba charges that Miami-based terrorists are continuing to plot against the island.
Chileans have a center-left president now, but students don't intend to let up the pressure on the government to reform the educational system
Garment workers in Haiti's assembly sector continue to protest, demanding higher wages and better services; meanwhile, teachers may be ending their strike.
