After six months, the Dominican government has still not carried out promises to regularize the status of Dominicans "denationalized" by a controversial court ruling.
A suicide blast hit Lebanon's Bekaa Valley after Hezbollah fighters took a Syrian border town. Meanwhile, a Syrian opposition figure broaches selling the Golan for Israeli military aid.
The Crimean parliament formally declared the region independent and asked to join the Russian Federation following a popular vote to secede from Ukraine.
Sri Lankan authorities arrested two prominent human rights activists who were seeking information on the "disappeared" for alleged violations of anti-terror laws.
Putin's propagandists have everything invested in exaggerating the fascist threat in Ukraine, while the "MSM" in the West have everything invested in denying it.
Iraq's oil production surged to its highest level in over 30 years last month—as insurgent and terrorist attacks claim more lives than at any time since 2007.
Crimean Tatars held protests in the peninsula, calling for a boycott of the referendum on union with Russia and demanding that Russian troops return to barracks.
The US transfered Guantánamo detainee Ahmed Belbacha to Algeria, where he has been tried in absentia and convicted of belonging to a "terrorist organization."
Pressure is mounting on Tripoli to act against "federalist" rebels in Cyrenaica after they allowed a North Korean-flagged tanker to ship from a port under their control.
The presence of an acclaimed Uighur artist among those on the missing Malyasian airliner has fueled speculation about terrorism—prompting protests from the Uighur diaspora.
NATO maneuvers in the Black Sea—just across from Crimea—come as Ukrainian lawmakers threaten to seek nuclear weapons if the West does not act against Russia.
In light of the Crimea crisis, the EU is reconsidering approval of Russia's pending South Stream and Nord Stream pipelines, that would strategically bypass Ukraine.
