Climate-change denialists are gloating at the "Polar Vortex"—failing to understand that it was unleashed by destabilization of the Jet Stream due to loss of arctic ice cover.
Palestinians from Qusra village apprehended 18 settlers and held them captive after they raided Qusra lands, attacked a youth, and attempted to uproot olive trees.
A clash between Fulani herdsmen and Berom farmers in Nigeria's Plateau state follows growing ethnic violence and vigilantism across the country's northern plains.
Following intense debate, Tunisian members of parliament rejected Islam as the main source of law for the country as they voted to establish a new constitution.
Guatemala has emerged as a major opium producer in recent years, and President Otto Pérez Molina is now considering legalized and regulated cultivation.
Unprecedented cocaine raids across Costa Rica point to the Central American country emerging as a key hub in the hemispheric narco-trade.
Amid multiple legal challenges, Nicaragua's interoceanic canal project could be delayed for a year, while the rival Panama Canal expansion faces massive cost overruns.
Just as he has launched a new political party, photos emerge showing Colombia's ex-president Alvaro Uribe with figures linked to the "para-politics" scandal.
Colombia's ELN guerillas blew up four crude-oil holding pools along the Caño Limon pipeline, sparking a large blaze and causing the local population to flee.
The US-funded glyphosate spraying in Colombia has been indefinitely suspended after presumed FARC guerillas shot down two fumigation planes—killing a US pilot.
Cambodian military police opened fire on striking garment factory workers, killing four, and then dispersed a protest encampment from a central square in Phnom Penh.
Syrian rebels launched an offensive against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)—just as the Qaeda-inspired army has seized the Iraqi towns of Fallujah and Ramadi.
