In Venezuela, the commission overseeing the referendum process against President Nicolas Maduro reports that tens of thousands of names that were submitted belong to people who are not alive.... More


With 55 percent of the ballots counted from Sunday's election, Dominican Republic President Danilo Medina is set for a second term with 62 percent of the vote so far. ... More


Antonio Tizapa, father of one of the 43 forcibly disappeared Mexican students, made an impassioned plea Monday during the U.N. Indigenous Forum, asking the United Nations Special Rapporteur for Indigenous People Victoria Tauli Corpuz to visit his country and for the Mexican government to facilitate her visit.... More


Fishermen in at least six towns in the Chilean archipelago of Chiloe cancelled their fishing prohibition protests after an agreement was reached with the central government on the amount of compensation to be issued to those most affected by ban.... More


Former Honduran President Porfirio Lobo

The son of former Honduran President Porfirio Lobo pleaded guilty on Monday to conspiring to import cocaine into the United States, a year after his arrest in Haiti as part of a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration probe.... More


A close ally of conservative Peruvian presidential hopeful Keiko Fujimori who she introduced as a “friend” was reportedly jailed in the late 1990s over charges of extortion, an investigation published Sunday by the Peruvian daily La Republica reveals.... More


At least 45 people were killed and 90 others injured in three bomb attacks in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad. ... More


The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has “mistakenly” deleted its only copy of a Senate report into the agency’s brutal interrogation techniques.... More


A new batch document dump from the Snowden Archives of National Security Agency internal newsletters reveals that the NSA had a direct role in "interrogations" programs in Guantanamo at the outset of the so-called “global war on terror.”... More


Thousands of bodies have reportedly been found in a mass grave in a northern Syrian town, which had been under the Daesh Takfiri terror group’s control for about a month.... More


The United States and other world powers have voiced readiness to supply weapons to Libya's internationally-recognized government to counter militants and rivals.... More


Hundreds of Greeks have staged a rally in Athens to protest the government’s strict austerity measures, including proposed steep cuts in public spending and an increase in taxes.... More


Billionaire U.S. presidential hopeful, Donald Trump, will meet with the former U.S. Secretary of State who backed the overthrow of Chilean President Salvador Allende.... More


Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva met with leaders from Brazil's social movements and trade union organizations in an effort to create a new “broad front” to resist the parliamentary coup that saw democratically-elected President Dilma Rouseff ousted from power. ... More


Ecuador's ruling Alianza País has called for an urgent meeting of member countries of the Union of South American Countries (UNASUR) and of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC)to analyze the current situation in Brazil and reject the ongoing destabilization plots, seeking to destroy Brazilian democracy.... More


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