The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan have posted a video claiming responsibility for the attempted Times Square car-bomb attack. Police say they dismiss the claim.
Our April Exit Poll was: “Is the new healthcare bill a small step for social justice, or big one towards corporate totalitarianism?” We received the following two rather diametrically opposed responses: From JG in New York City: A small step… Read moreThe healthcare bill and corporate rule: our readers write
Police clashed in Athens May 1 with thousands of protesters marching against new austerity measures the Greek government is to adopt. A general strike is called for May 5.
Conservationists fear the Deepwater Horizon oil spill will affect migratory bird populations from Alaska to South America.
Two are dead and at least five missing after a paramilitary ambush on a human rights caravan in the mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico.
A Uruguayan judge handed down a 20-year term to ex-foreign minister Juan Carlos Blanco in the case of a “disappeared” schoolteacher.
The Haitian government declared a moratorium on evictions of homeless residents from improvised encampments on private property.
A new report from Doctors of the World finds dangerous and degrading conditions for women in Guatemalan maquiladoras.
The chancellor of the University of Wisconsin in Madison has announced that the institution is cancelling its sports apparel contract with Nike over conditions in the company’s Honduras maquilas.
As of April 25 students were continuing an occupation of the Río Piedras campus of the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) in San Juan to protest plans to cut next year’s budget by $100 million.
Latino advocacy groups plan to challenge the constitutionality of Arizona’s new immigration law, asserting it permits racial profiling.
Evo Morales has sparked international protests with his comments at the Cochabamba climate summit that eating hormone-laden chicken turns men gay.
