A peaceful march against a gold mine in Argentina's La Rioja province was dispersed by police using tear-gas and rubber bullets to enforce a court order barring protests at the site.
A lawsuit challenging the NYPD's surveillance of Muslims can proceed, a US appeals court ruled, opening the way for a trial on the program's constitutionality.
Amnesty International charges that Brazil's military police have been responsible for more than 1,500 deaths in Rio de Janeiro's favelas in the last five years.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi approved a counter-terrorism law assailed by rights groups as making permanent powers usually reserved for a state of emergency.
Gunmen killed at least 18 people in outlying districts of Sao Paulo, and authorities suspect a coordinated campaign of revenge by off-duty officers for the death of two colleagues.
Local residents and environmentalists blocked the road to a forest area in the Cerattepeli region of Turkey's Black Sea province of Artvin to block preparation of a mining project.
Indigenous leaders from across Argentina's 17 provinces met in Buenos Aires to coordinate resistance to dispossession from their ancestral lands by development interests.
Activists in Spain staged a creative protest against the country's new "Citizen Safety Law"—projecting holograms of themselves that marched on the parliament building in Madrid.
Turkey and the Kurdish rebel movement announced a landmark political deal that calls for the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) to lay down arms and join the civil political process.
Three young immigrants in Brooklyn were arrested and charged with plotting to travel to Syria to fight for ISIS. But were the plans invented by an FBI infiltrator?
Venezuelan authorities issued new regulations allowing soldiers to use deadly force against demonstrators—drawing protest even from sectors traditionally close to the government.
New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton announced a new Strategic Response Group with special weapons to combat terrorists—and protesters.
