Former Honduran President Manuel Zelaya said on Friday that his wife Xiomara Castro will run for the left-wing Libre Party in the 2017 presidential elections. ... More


A U.S. drone attack has killed 22 Afghan soldiers held by Taliban militants in the southern province of Helmand, while Taliban have overrun a strategic district elsewhere. ... More


A U.S. federal appeals court in New York has upheld the United Nation's claim of immunity in a lawsuit brought by Haitians seeking compensation for a cholera epidemic that killed more than 9,000 people. ... More


In the U.S. state of Louisiana, more than 100,000 people have applied for federal assistance, as cleanup begins from recent historic flooding.... More


A Honduran mother and her young son have filed a lawsuit against U.S. authorities, claiming they were mistreated in detention facilities after they entered the country seeking asylum.... More


Richard Becker, from the ANSWER Coalition (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism), located in San Francisco, says that the peace accord reached between Colombia's government and the rebel Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia has foiled Washington's plans for the South American country. ... More


In Rio de Janeiro, the Olympic Games have come to an end, but a new study is out showing that climate change may affect future athletic gatherings.... More


A recent poll in the United Stats found that five percent of Americans voters would cast their ballot for Harambe, a dead gorilla, if he ran as a presidential candidate in the 2016 elections. ... More


Bolivia’s deputy minister of the interior who was kidnapped Thursday morning has been killed, according to the government of Bolivia in a press conference Thursday night.... More


Israeli military forces have fatally shot a Palestinian man at a military check post near the illegal Ofra settlement in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.... More


In Italy, the death toll from Wednesday’s 6.2-magnitude earthquake continues to rise.... More


In Argentina, the former head of the army during Argentina’s dirty wars has been convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to life in prison.... More


Classrooms were empty across Argentina Wednesday after teachers walked off the job to protest President Mauricio Macri’s neo-liberal education reforms and pressure his administration to resume negotiations with the teachers' union.... More


A director of the opposition political party “Vente Venezuela,” Williams Caballero, said that people “will punish on the streets” the judges of the Supreme Court and the officials of the National Electoral Council... More


Thousands of Brazilians have staged a demonstration in the country’s capital to show support for suspended president Dilma Rousseff, whose impeachment trial began on Thursday.... More


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