In the U.S. state of California, Helen Chavez, an activist who played a crucial role in launching the United Farm Workers of America, has died at the age of 88.... More


A dozen U.S. inmates at Waupun Correctional Institution in Wisconsin plan to launch a hunger strike to protest that they are being held in indefinite solitary confinement.... More


UK manufacturing activity barely grew last month, raising concerns over the economy's strength in the run-up to the June 23rd referendum on whether the country should remain a member of European Union.... More


According to newly-declassified documents and testimonies, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had a permanent operation to intervene in political and social decisions of Ecuador for more than half a century.... More


Former Brazilian President Luiz Lula da Silva has accused the country's interim government of having orchestrated a coup to rise to power in the South American country.... More


The Guardian reports that the judge overseeing the military tribunal at the U.S. prison on Guantánamo "effectively conspired" with prosecutors to destroy evidence related to the defense of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the accused architect of the 9/11 attacks.... More


A bomb blast has rocked central downtown Istanbul, Turkey, killing at least 11 people and leaving 36 others injured. ... More


A car bomb has exploded in Iraq's holy city of Karbala, leaving at least five people dead and 11 others wounded. ... More


Amnesty International has dismissed as "utterly shameful" the United Kingdom's claims that no British-made cluster bombs have been used by Saudis against civilians in Yemen. ... More


The U.S. State Department has said it could take up to 75 years to finish reviewing thousands of pages of e-mail records belonging to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her top aides.... More


Hundreds of German milk farmers have staged a protest in Munich against the government's economic policies, which they say, are behind plunging dairy prices.... More


In the U.S. state of Florida, a Tropical Storm Warning has been discontinued along the Atlantic coast. On the forecast track, the center of Tropical Storm Colin should move near and parallel to the coast of the southeastern United States.... More


Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, a former World Bank official, is clinging to a tiny lead over his opponent, Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of an imprisoned former president turned dictator, in Peru's presidential race. ... More


Guatemalan former president Otto Perez

Guatemalan authorities have accused former president Otto Perez and his vice president Roxana Baldetti of further corruption for their involvement in bribes and public contracts amid an investigation into widespread corruption.... More


Bolivian President Evo Morales has criticized the government of neighbor Chile due to an increase in export rates in the port of Antofagasta, through which all Bolivian imports enter paying lower taxes.... More


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