Peru's state-owned oil company, PetroPeru, faces renewed scrutiny following another reported another oil spill in the Amazon, the eighth leak this year alone. ... More
Global leaders, policy makers, architects, urban planners, and others are meeting in Ecuador's capital city of Quito for the first major summit in two decades aimed at tackling issues facing the world's urban dwellers and fast-expanding cities. ... More
In news from Africa, The New York Times is reporting the Barack Obama administration has intensified a clandestine war in Somalia... More
In the United States, a new federal lawsuit takes aim at ExxonMobil in what advocates say is the first legal action targeting the oil giant for its decades-long cover-up of climate change. ... More
Doctors Without Borders has announced that it had refused a donation of one million pneumonia vaccinations from the drug manufacturer Pfizer as part of a principled stand against Big Pharma's monopolistic drug-pricing policies.... More
Victims from around the world gave evidence against U.S. agricultural giant Monsanto during a symbolic "moral trial" in The Hague. ... More
Tens of thousands of Chileans in dozens of cities throughout the country took part Sunday in the third day-of-action to demand the end of the private pension system, imposed on workers in 1981 during the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship. ... More
Russian President Vladimir Putin has criticized France for not contributing enough to international efforts to settle the crisis in Syria... More
The United States, Britain and the UN special envoy for Yemen have urged the warring sides to the conflict in Yemen to declare an immediate ceasefire. ... More
Palestinians have gathered in the Negev desert in protest to Israel's destruction of homes in Bedouin towns in the region. ... More
Another batch of newly leaked e-mails show how Hillary Clinton’s campaign struggled to deal with Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders’s popularity during the primary season. ... More
The Trump Taj Mahal casino hotel in Atlantic City has officially shut down -- leaving 3,000 workers without jobs.... More
Ever-tightening corporate control over seeds and other agricultural resources, epitomized in the recent Bayer-Monsanto mega-merger that cemented the largest agrochemicals company in the world... More
Alvaro Uribe, has doubled down on his calls for an overhaul of the end-of-conflict agreements... More
The U.S. Department of Defense spent an average of more than $626 million annually on propaganda, more than all other federal government agencies combined, according to a report from the Government Accountability Office. ... More
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