In Britain, more than 10,000 people have signed a petition demanding the British Parliament "hold Tony Blair to account" for the country’s participation in the 2003 Iraq War.... More
Colombian Foreign Minister Maria Angela Holguin says that she and her Venezuelan counterpart Delcy Rodriguez will meet August 4 to discuss the possibility of reopening their countries common border.... More
Flight crews at Air France have launched a week-long strike beginning on Wednesday after marathon talks failed on renewing a labor accord on rules, pay and promotions.... More
Anger is building up in Canada after the death of a Black man at the hands of police, prompting plans for protests by those who say police violence against the Black community is not solely a U.S. problem.... More
Prominent U.S. professor Noam Chomsky said Indigenous people in Latin America were the ones fighting back against decades of corporate exploitation. ... More
The suburbs of Paris are rising up once more against police killings, trying now to build up upon the U.S. movement Black Lives Matter as residents are furious over the death of another young Black man in police custody a week ago.... More
A court in Chile has increased the sentences of two retired intelligence officials for their involvement in the extrajudicial killings in 1973 of U.S. citizens Charles Horman and Frank Teruggi, just after the coup against President Salvador Allende, led by U.S. ally General Augusto Pinochet.... More
In the United States, Florida Circuit Judge Mark Husley has been reassigned to another judicial division this week, pending a ruling, for having allegedly made racist and sexist comments to female staff.... More
Congratulatory messages continue to come in for the 63rd anniversary of the assault on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Cespedes barracks -- commemorated yesterday, July 26th. ... More
Manuel Marrero Cruz, Cuba's Minister of Tourism, heads the island's delegation to Peru to participate in the inauguration of President-elect Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, to be held on Wednesday in Lima. ... More
The image of Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee, is at its lowest point in the 24 years of her national career just as the Democratic National Convention gets underway, according to a new poll. ... More
Hillary Clinton’s selection of a white, male centrist running-mate -- Virginia Senator Tim Kaine -- signals that the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee plans to battle Republican presidential nominee for his most ardent supporters: white males, the angrier the better. ... More
The umbrella organization of Argentina's Jewish community, the DAIA, said Tuesday it will ask a court to reopen a dismissed legal process against former President Cristina Fernandez for allegedly orchestrating a coverup to shield the culprits responsible for the 1994 attack on the Mutual Israeli Argentine Association. ... More
The judge overseeing the probe that led to the arrest last week of suspected Islamist militants in Brazil said Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. cooperated with investigators by providing information about the suspects' use of both social networks... More
An association of Argentinean judges, lawyers and attorneys say they are being pressured by those in power to alter judicial decisions that don't serve government's interests. ... More
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