Warplanes under the command of renegade Gen. Khalifa Haftar fired missiles at Misrata's rebel-held airport, as Libya's oil exports remain effectively paralyzed by civil war.
The slaying of an indigenous leader who planned to travel from Ecuador to denounce a mining project before the Lima climate summit is the latest attack on regional ecological defenders.
Argentina's center-left government passed a law to attract foreign investment in oil production, especially for hydrofracking in the Vaca Muerta shale deposits.
The plans for opening Mexico's oil industry to private investment are popular in the US media, but are they popular with Mexicans? The courts have nixed a vote on the subject.
The Guerrero crisis is diverting international attention from plans for "economic reform," but is Mexico's business class really less corrupt than its politicians?
Turkish troops opened fire on Kurdish refugees attempting to flee the tightening ISIS siege of Kobani in northern Syria, as ISIS forces advanced within 40 kilometers of Baghdad.
Supporters and opponents of Ecuador's President Rafael Correa took to the streets of Quito by the thousands—at one point clashing with each other, resulting in injuries and arrests.
In a little-noted irony, as Vladiimir Putin backs the "People's Republics" in eastern Ukraine, he has cracked down on a separatist movement that has emerged in Siberia.
The new Iraq crisis sparked a brief oil shock, but prices have since stabilized. We are told this is due to the North American energy boom—but are prices set to surge again?
At the NATO summit called in response to the Ukraine escalation, a particularly hard line is being taken by Canada—now in a race with Russia to claim Arctic oil resources.
In a Pentagon press conference, Gen. Martin Dempsey, chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that ISIS cannot be defeated unless the US or its partners take them on in Syria.
Obama dispatched 130 new military advisors to Iraqi Kurdistan, but is resisting the Kurdistan government's appeal for more arms to fight ISIS. France has pledged new arms shipments.
