Brazilians have become more dissatisfied with the way President Michel Temer is running their country, a new poll says, as his policy of fiscal discipline continues to generate more public discontent. ... More


Tobias Ellwood, British Minister for the Middle East

The British minister for the Middle East says the early October attack by Saudi forces on a funeral in Yemen was a “deliberate error.” ... More


In Paris, a court has rejected a bid to stop the French government from demolishing the refugee camp in Calais known as "The Jungle." ... More


Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and wife Rosario Murillo have 64.2 percent support among voters ahead of the general election on November 6, according to a poll published Tuesday. ... More


Typhoon Haima has landed on the northern Philippines, killing at least four people and displacing thousands of others in the Southeast Asian country.... More


Eduardo Cunha, Former Brazilian Head of Congress

Federal authorities in Brazil have summoned Eduardo Cunha, the controversial former head of Congress and chief mastermind behind the impeachment... More


Israel has been interrogating and imprisoning dozens of Palestinian minors for months without any legal representation or a parent's presence.... More


In Brazil, social movements, high school students, labor unions and working class people have raised alarm over Brazilian President Michel Temer's plan to institutionalize neo-liberalism.... More


In CIA-administered prisons from Jordan to Afghanistan to Guantanamo Bay, Mohamedou Slahi was beaten, subjected to sleep deprivation and freezing temperatures... More


London Metropolitan Police Service are set to equip a total of 22,000 officers by the summer of 2017 with body cameras... More


The United Nations cultural and scientific agency has adopted a resolution reaffirming the right of the Palestinians to the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the occupied East Jerusalem. ... More


Israeli forces have shot and killed a Palestinian girl in the occupied West Bank, claiming she had attempted a stabbing attack.... More


Roberto Dario Cardona, Former Honduran Deputy-Minister

Roberto Dario Cardona, former Honduran deputy-minister for natural resources and the environment and suspected of being involved in the murder of environmentalist Berta Caceres has been arrested... More


Peru's state-owned oil company, PetroPeru, faces renewed scrutiny following another reported another oil spill in the Amazon, the eighth leak this year alone. ... More


Global leaders, policy makers, architects, urban planners, and others are meeting in Ecuador's capital city of Quito for the first major summit in two decades aimed at tackling issues facing the world's urban dwellers and fast-expanding cities. ... More


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