The Italian coast guard says it rescued a staggering 11,000 refugees trying to make the deadly crossing from Libya into Europe this week alone, amid the greatest refugee crisis since World War II.... More
The whistleblowing group WikiLeaks has published over 2,000 e-mails from the server of Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta. ... More
The U.S. Justice Department has launched an investigation into the Alabama prison system amid a series of strikes by both prisoners and guards.... More
In the U.S. state of California, the Council on American-Islamic Relations has filed a complaint against Southwest Airlines with the Transportation Department, calling for an investigation into whether the airline company is racially profiling Muslim Americans. ... More
The United Nations is calling for an independent investigation into a U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan in September, which the U.N. says killed at least 15 civilians and wounded 13 more. ... More
A Norwegian appeals court rejected a lawsuit from famed whistleblower Edward Snowden against the Norwegian government, denying him free passage to the country to accept a free speech award.... More
The United Nations says that Saudi Arabia is using starvation as a tactic in its ongoing war against Yemen as well as against the Shia population inside Saudi Arabia itself. ... More
Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani has called Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump "a genius", after a report indicated that Trump may have legally avoided paying income taxes for nearly two decades. ... More
Hundreds of thousands of Colombians took to the streets to demand the peace accord be respected, as President Manuel Santos met with right-wing former president, Alvaro Uribe, to discuss changes to the peace deal with the FARC-EP. ... More
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said that "peace is at hand" after meeting with right-wing former president Alvaro Uribe on Wednesday in a bid to resolve differences over a peace deal with the FARC-EP that was rejected in a surprising vote Sunday, leaving the country in limbo. ... More
The European Union says it will withhold development funding earmarked for Colombia in the wake of the Colombian people's rejection of a government peace deal with the South American country's main rebel group in a referendum. ... More
The all-women solidarity ship “Zaytouna” has been intercepted by Israeli naval forces while on its way to the besieged Gaza Strip, with the crew members reportedly detained, according to live updates released by the group on social media. ... More
In Mexico, two students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College in the southern state of Guerrero have been killed by gunmen on Tuesday. ... More
Venezuelan Oil Minister Eulogio Del Pino says that the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, will increase the price of oil by roughly US$10 per-barrel over the next nine months.... More
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has arrested a National Security Agency (NSA) contractor as part of an investigation to a possible theft of top-secret hacking tools. ... More
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