Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) has called for mobilizations and rallies across the country Wednesday and again on Saturday in protest against the OAS "intervention."... More
In a blow to Brazil's interim government, another minister has stepped down after the leak of a new audio tape that reveals him trying to block a corruption investigation at the state oil company. ... More
Some 27 million Mexicans have been called to vote in the June 5th elections in 14 states to elect more than 1,300 public officials, including 12 governors and 965 mayors. ... More
An investigation published in Counterpunch has revealed that the private Honduran energy company implicated in the murder of Indigenous activist Berta Caceres signed a funding deal with a USAID partner just months before her assassination.... More
Former Peruvian presidential candidate Veronika Mendoza called for her supporters to vote for Keiko Fujimori's opponent in the second round of presidential elections.... More
Mohamed Abdelaziz, the secretary general of the Polisario Front, a movement fighting for independence of a region of Western Sahara, has died.... More
Public sector employees have brought transportation to a halt in Belgium as looming strikes on planes and trains are threatening to bring more chaos to neighboring France.... More
Air France pilots have voted for a strike action in June, potentially affecting the prestigious European football games. ... More
An Australian study shows more than 45 million people are currently trapped in modern slavery across the world, up by 28 percent compared to similar estimates two years ago.... More
Stephen Hawking, probably the most prominent scientist alive, is struggling to understand why real estate mogul Donald Trump is popular among American voters in his 2016 presidential campaign.... More
Some 40,000 Verizon workers have returned to their jobs following an agreement with the company, seven weeks after staging one of the largest strikes in recent years in the United States.... More
Extremist Israeli politician Avigdor Lieberman has been officially sworn in as Israel's new minister of military affairs.... More
The social networking website Facebook has surpassed governments in terms of posing privacy challenges, says a former director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). ... More
Thousands of Puerto Ricans demanded the release of political prisoner Oscar Lopez Rivera, who has been locked up in U.S. prisons for 35 years -- marching through the streets of San Juan on Sunday.... More
While the hype and protests around the high-profile release of the Panama Papers has begun to die down, Argentinean President Mauricio Macri has now admitted to having over $18 million offshore in tax havens, while the fortune he had previously made public doubled in 2015, local media reported.... More
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