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Monday, March 3, 2014 - 00:00
Inflation and food shortages continue to spark violence in Venezuela. Dozens of people have been arrested, and protests renewed on Saturday.
Wednesday, February 26, 2014 - 00:00
If she wins a spot in Congress, Rojas says she will push the guerrillas to provide a full accounting of the thousands of people they are accused of kidnapping, many of whom are presumed dead.
Wednesday, February 19, 2014 - 00:00
Tens of thousands of Venezuelans took to the streets of the capital Caracas, after the arrest of a main opposition leader.
Tuesday, February 18, 2014 - 10:51
It is almost impossible to buy soap anymore in most small towns in the Central African Republic. Same with sugar, powdered milk, batteries, baby formula. Up until January, these kinds of imported goods — in the stratified society of this country — almost always would have been sold to you by a Muslim.
Friday, January 31, 2014 - 12:30
The U.N. Security Council has targeted illegal wildlife traffickers for sanctions in a pair of resolutions against African armed groups, a step conservationists called unprecedented and a major shift on a problem that has morphed from an environmental issue into a security threat.
Monday, December 16, 2013 - 08:34
Once again, French television screens are full of images of joyous Africans welcoming French troops. In January, the French military intervened in Mali to help liberate large swaths of the country from radical jihadists. Now, for the second time this year, France has sent troops into an African country to quell violence.
Friday, December 6, 2013 - 09:17
Wielding rifles and machetes, armed Christian fighters who support the Central African Republic's exiled president assaulted the capital at dawn on Thursday, leaving nearly 100 people dead.
Tuesday, November 12, 2013 - 00:00
A man who served in the U.S. military and as a Texas police officer has been arrested near Monterrey, Mexico, where authorities say he led a kidnapping gang.
Friday, November 1, 2013 - 08:18
U.S. Special Forces haven't found Joseph Kony. Several African governments have searched in vain for the notorious Ugandan warlord. And a social media campaign among young Americans, which last year focused attention on Kony's atrocities and went viral, has waned.
Wednesday, October 30, 2013 - 00:00
In a U.N. vote that has become something of a tradition, only one country agreed with the United States that its embargo of Cuba should continue.