The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights approved a special mechanism for monitoring the case of the 43 missing students in Ayotzinapa on Friday, urging the government to redouble its efforts in the investigation.... More
The United States is proposing to send an additional 5,000 Marines to the Western Pacific island of Guam, which is already 28 percent occupied by the U.S. military. The move will add to the increasing tensions between U.S. Army personnel and the residents. ... More
The U.S. state of Texas has made it legal to carry guns on university campuses, a controversial decision also made by seven other states so far. Ironically, the decision was made on the 50th anniversary of a deadly campus sniper rampage at the University of Texas at Austin in 1966 that claimed 14 lives. ... More
German riot police have arrested at least 12 people and injured several others during scuffles with anti-fascist activists, who took to the streets to voice their support for refugees. ... More
Israeli forces have shot dead another Palestinian north of the occupied West Bank, claiming that he was trying to carry out a stabbing attack on their soldiers.... More
The Pentagon has announced it is expanding an "advise and assist mission" for U.S. troops in Iraq as some of them are deploying along with a conventional Iraqi army unit for the first time in years. ... More
The latest leaked e-mails from Hillary Clinton show that she ignored advice to punish Honduran businesses for supporting the 2009 coup and helped push the elected President Manuel Zelaya out of Honduran politics. ... More
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has said that his group has more information about U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's campaign which could be released soon. Assange spoke with reporters from the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he has been hold up for four years.... More
Dozens of workers of community and alternative media outlets in Argentina took to the streets of Buenos Aires over the weekend to demand the payment of government funded promotion programs for nonprofit media, which is mandated in the country's media law. ... More
At least 150,000 people have been affected by five days of strike by Air France crew as the carrier struggles to cope with the repercussions of the industrial action at the height of the holiday travel period. ... More
Hundreds of U.S. demonstrators have marched through Dallas, Texas, to express their anger against police brutality toward African-Americans. The protesters also paid homage to the five police officers slain by a sniper during a demonstration in Dallas last month. ... More
In eastern India, days of monsoons triggered floods last week that killed over 50 people and have affected millions of others. ... More
The right-wing politician who orchestrated the parliamentary coup against President Dilma Rousseff, Eduardo Cunha, resigned in tears earlier this month from his post as speaker of the lower house of Congress in Brazil. ... More
More than a dozen civilians have lost their lives and many more sustained injuries when fighter jets from the U.S.-led military coalition launched airstrikes against purported positions of the Takfiri Daesh militant group in Syria’s strategic northern province of Aleppo.... More
The Guardian has reported that Eastern European countries have quietly approved the discreet sale of more than $1 billion worth of arms to Syria in the last five years. ... More
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