British military firm Cobham has provided U.S. police departments with advanced eavesdropping equipment, a leaked document shows.... More


Teachers affiliated with the militant National Coordinator of Education Workers in the state of Oaxaca voted to return to the classroom this week on the condition that the government of Enrique Peña Nieto return to the negotiating table, a union leader told Proceso magazine.... More


Libyan politicians have started UN-brokered talks in Tunisia to discuss the power struggle between warring political parties and the threat posed by Takfiri militants who are undermining stability in the North African country.... More


Germany's far-right party made gains in local elections -- after a campaign filled with racism and xenophobia against refugees -- scoring ahead of Chancellor Angela Merkel's party and securing seats on nine of 16 regional parliaments.... More


Hundreds of child refugees have disappeared since arriving in the UK, with many possibly being exploited by human traffickers in the form of sexual abuse or modern slavery, according to new revelations.... More


Noam Chomsky, a renowned U.S. political activist and philosopher, has accused the United States and its Western allies of knowing about but choosing to turn a blind eye to Saudi Arabia’s support for terrorist groups.... More


ICC Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda

An International Criminal Court (ICC) team is to visit the Palestinian territories to examine the competence of the Israeli “justice” system to investigate the regime’s deadly 2014 war on Gaza.... More


France has vowed to raze the “Jungle,” a sprawling camp in the northern port city of Calais hosting refugees waiting to cross into the UK. ... More


U.S. foreign policy veteran Henry Kissinger

U.S. foreign policy veteran Henry Kissinger says he will not endorse any of the 2016 presidential candidates in the race for the White House, rejecting reports that the Republican guru will publicly back Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.... More


Larnell Malik Bruce

Authorities in the U.S. state of Oregon have launched an investigation to determine whether the death of an African-American teenager at the hands of an alleged white supremacist is a hate crime.... More


A U.S. federal judge has rejected a request from U.S. political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal for life-saving medication that could cure his hepatitis C. ... More


The Organization of American States, the OAS, has remained silent on the Brazilian Senate's moves to oust President Dilma Rousseff. As Brazil’s political elite completed their plot to remove Dilma, the OAS had nothing to say -- while at the same time issuing a lengthy statement in favor of opposition protests in Venezuela.... More


Brazil's ousted president Dilma Rousseff, who was stripped of presidency following a Wednesday Senate impeachment vote, has appealed to the Supreme Court to overturn the decision on her removal from office.... More


The latest figures released by the United Nation show that acts of terrorism and violence left nearly 700 people dead in Iraq in August as Takfiri Daesh militants push ahead with their terror activities in the face of joint operations by Iraqi army forces and fighters from the Popular Mobilization Units.... More


Argentinean President Mauricio Macri has endorsed Brazil’s de facto President Michel Temer after the Senate ousted Dilma Rousseff in an impeachment bid, representing the latest in a wave of right-wing attempts to restore conservative politics in the region.... More


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