The US Supreme Court ruled that DaimlerChrysler AG does not have to face suit in California for human rights violations by a subsidiary that took place in Argentina.
Local residents in the central Argentine province of Córdoba have won a suspension of the giant seed-drying plant Monsanto wants to build in their town.
World Bank auditors say the bank violated ethical standards with a loan it gave a landowner in the conflictive Aguán Valley region of Honduras.
Haitian factory owners have fired some 26 union supporters since workers marched out to demand a higher minimum wage a month ago.
The expulsion of two politicians has revealed some of the fissures in former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s populist political party.
Wall Street objects to teachers’ pensions in Puerto Rico—just as it does in the US itself.
The Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization (IFCO), which has sponsored aid shipments to Cuba for two decades is threatened with losing its tax-exempt status.
As Ariel Sharon was buried under the protection of Israel's Iron Dome missile shield, joyful celebrations broke out at Lebanon's Sabra and Shatila refugee camps.
A Saudi Arabian court sentenced to death a member of a militant cell in connection with a 2004 suicide attack on a western company operating in Yanbu port.
Israel's pressure on Palestinians to recognize it as a Jewish state constitutes an attempt to legalize "racism," PLO official Hanan Ashrawi charged.
Residents in high Andean communities of northern Colombian broke off talks with the government aimed at securing consent for mining in the sensitive Páramo de Santurbán.
Achuar indigenous leader Segundo García Sandi began a hunger strike to demand his freedom at a prison in Iquitos, Peru, held on charges of sabotaging an oil pipeline.
