More than 1,000 striking employees of the Verizon telecommunications company have held a protest march in Washington DC against the US company’s new employment plan.... More


French demonstrators have set ablaze a police car in the capital, Paris, in a move to vent their outrage at police violence exercised against opponents of the contentious government-proposed labor reforms. ... More


The death toll from devastating landslides triggered by massive torrential rains has risen to nearly three dozen in Sri Lanka. ... More


A U.S. B-52 strategic military plane has been destroyed after crashing at the U.S. airbase in the Western Pacific island of Guam. ... More


French President François Hollande and Greek officials have said the EgyptAir passenger jet that disappeared this morning en route from Paris to Cairo has crashed at sea.... More


Brazil’s suspended President Dilma Rousseff has given her first interview since her ouster to The Intercept's Glenn Greenwald, the journalist chosen by whistleblower Edward Snowden to reveal the U.S. government's electronic eavesdropping on the world... More


The prominent U.S. linguist, political analyst and writer, Noam Chomsky, has slammed the elite in Brazil, saying they carried out a soft coup against the democratically elected president.... More


Peruvian presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori announced on Wednesday that Joaquin Ramirez had resigned from her Fuerza Popular Party in a bid to calm an uproar following media reports that linked the two to money laundering.... More


From December 2012 to April this year, 7,556 people were kidnapped in Mexico, corresponding to an average of 184 people per month, 43 people per week and six daily, reported various non-profit organizations Wednesday.... More


Interim president of Brazil and parliamentary coup promoter Michel Temer has chosen a politician investigated for corruption and attempted murder as the new leader of the Lower House.... More


The infamous leader of the Sinaloa cartel could face charges from a number of federal prosecutors in the U.S. should he be extradited. ... More


The United Nations is disappearing traditional belief systems and enforcing its own superiority by privileging stiff bureaucracy over indigenous ways, Mayan leader Policarpio Chaj said in an interview with teleSUR on Wednesday... More


Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro described his country on Tuesday as being the target of not only a systematic aggression by "‘global imperialist forces," but also of destabilization efforts by the right-wing opposition.... More


Ecuador was hit by an aftershock of 6.8 magnitude Wednesday at 2:57 a.m., striking the northern coast, near Rosa Zarate and Muisne.... More


The Worker's Party, or PT, of suspended President Dilma Rousseff, asserted that Brazil is experiencing a "coup" and announced a campaign to do away with interim President Michel Temer.... More


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