A Turkish military incursion against Qaedist rebels in Syria comes amid claims that al-Qaeda affiliates have seized the country's oilfields and are planning attacks on the West.
The US State Department and human rights groups joined to condemn Cuba's detentions of dissidents to keep them away from a Havana summit of hemispheric leaders.
World War 4 Report offers its annual annotated assessment of Obama's moves in dismantling, continuing or escalating the apparatus of the Global War on Terrorism.
US retailers have been caught selling apparel from a plant whose union-busting owner cheated the workers of their pension and healthcare benefits.
Campesinos in Zacatecas state say a Canadian mining multinational "took advantage of their ignorance" when they agreed to rent out their land for a pittance.
Brazilians continue to protest the government's funding of soccer events at the expense of social services, but the actions are much smaller than last year's giant marches.
The Argentine peso had its worst week since the 2001-2002 financial crisis, but analysts are divided on the reasons for the fall.
The International Court of Justice issued a ruling establishing a new maritime boundary between Peru and Chile, officially ending years of conflict over the question.
Mayor de Blasio's closed-doors meeting with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) plays into the worst stereotypes about Jews. So no thanks, Bill.
Leftist Palestinian parties held demonstrations across the West Bank in opposition to negotiations with Israel and US Secretary of State John Kerry's "framework proposal."
Peru's Yanacocha mining company is implicated in another forced eviction of a campesino family from disputed lands in the northern Cajamarca region.
A state prosecutor cleared Peru's imprisoned ex-president Alberto Fujimori of charges that he was responsible for the forced sterilization of thousands of indigenous peasant women.
