France is escalating its military mission in the Central African Republic, airlifting troops and equipment to the capital Bangui ahead of an anticipated UN-backed intervention.
Members of families who lost relatives in Israel’s 2008 war on Gaza staged a mass suicide attempt in protest over unpaid compensations from the Hamas government.
Human Rights Watch urged the International Criminal Court to expedite an inquiry into war crimes committed in Afghanistan by insurgent and government forces alike.
Using rocks and clubs, a group of supposed workers assaulted activists and local residents protesting plans to build a massive Monsanto facility in Córdoba, Argentina.
Two opposition parties charge fraud in the Nov. 24 election in Honduras. Did the vote restore democracy–or just aggravate the “social confrontation”?
Haiti and the Dominican Republic aren’t at war, according to Haiti’s foreign minister, but hundreds of Haitians have fled the neighboring country amid a wave of violence.
The number of Haitians trying to reach the US through the Bahamas is increasing, and so are the fatalities.
In a 40,000-strong Mexico City demonstration, union members and opposition activists pledged civil disobedience to halt President Enrique Peña Nieto’s energy sector reform.
Two weeks after a devastating cyclone struck Somalia’s autonomous enclave of Puntland, nomadic pastoralists are especially at risk, with much of their livestock wiped out.
The UN’s latest Afghanistan Opium Survey finds that the country produced record levels of poppy in 2013—despite $7 billion in US eradication efforts.
The attorney for two Algerian detainees being held in Guantánamo Bay said the two will oppose their release back to Algeria, citing fear of torture and persecution there.
The feared Colombian National Police anti-riot force was mobilized to evict an encampment of campesinos who had been displaced from their homes by political violence.
