Security forces in Malaysian Borneo are in a stand-off with some 100 men they say are insurgents from the Philippine island of Sulu raising an ancestral claim to the territory.
Hundreds of neo-Nazis attempting to march on Dresden to crash commemorations of the 1945 bombardment were blocked by a human chain of thousands of anti-fascists.
A group of Haitian immigrants agreed to end an encampment they and family members held for more than a month in front of the Labor Ministry in Santo Domingo.
Some 3,000 marched in Athens, parading the coffin of a Pakistani immigrant who was stabbed to death earlier in the week by suspected Golden Dawn militants.
About 100 Haitian immigrant workers protested in front of the Labor Ministry in Santo Domingo, while hundreds more blocked a bridge at the border in the northwest.
A report on an Israeli TV news program charges that coercive contraception is behind a 50% decline in the Ethiopian birth rate in Israel over the past decade.
Undocumented foreign nationals in Libya are at risk of exploitation, arbitrary and indefinite detention, and even torture, Amnesty International reports.
In a landslide victory, Montana voters approved an initiative stating “that corporations are not entitled to constitutional rights because they are not human beings.”
Obama was re-elected with a shrinking minority of the white vote compared to 2008. This bodes poorly for the GOP's future, and also explains its radicalization.
A right-wing "Identity Group" seized a mosque in Poitiers, issuing a "declaration of war" against the "Islamization" of France—weeks after a bomb attack on a kosher shop in Paris.
Mara Salvatrucha, the Salvadoran street gang that got its start in Los Angeles' Koreatown, has been officially designated by US authorities as an "transnational criminal organization."
