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Wednesday, February 17, 2016 - 05:03
Brazil and Paraguay agreed to strengthen their partnership by improving the communication between their ministries of defense and Armed Forces to combat narcotrafficking groups and prevent crime on the countries' shared border.
Tuesday, February 16, 2016 - 09:35
Contradictory testimony surrounding the death of four alleged gang members at the hands of police again focuses attention on alleged extrajudicial killings by El Salvador security forces.
Tuesday, February 16, 2016 - 09:32
Anticipation is high for Pope Francis’ visit to the Rio Grande on Wednesday. Few are more excited than Mari Centeno and her three children, who, along with dozens of migrants here, await their fate in immigration court.
Tuesday, February 16, 2016 - 09:29
Given the limits of the anti-corruption mission’s mandate (MACCIH's mandate) and the allegations against senior officials involved in carrying out its recommendations, it seems unlikely that this body will overcome the crisis in Honduras.
Tuesday, February 16, 2016 - 09:26
Last December, anonymous billboards appeared in Kiev with the message “Run, Rabbit, Run”, to tell the youthful but bald Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk, who some say resembles a rabbit, that his time was up. U.S. Vice President Joe Biden was also in town the same month, delivering the contradictory message that Ukraine must not miss its last chance to reform, but in the name of stability shouldn’t get rid of the unpopular government that is holding back reform.
Tuesday, February 16, 2016 - 09:25
Antonov has revealed that it has completed assembly of the first An-132 fuselage at its factory in Ukraine.
Tuesday, February 16, 2016 - 09:24
Revisionist powers are on the move. From eastern Ukraine and the Persian Gulf to the South China Sea, large rivals of the United States are modernizing their military forces, grabbing strategic real estate, and threatening vulnerable U.S. allies. Their goal is not just to assert hegemony over their neighborhoods but to rearrange the global security order as we have known it since the end of the Second World War.
Tuesday, February 16, 2016 - 09:23
Colombia's second largest rebel group is making a bid to remind the world that it remains active in a presumed attempt to influence potential peace talks. Beginning at the weekend, the National Liberation Army, or ELN, imposed a 72-hour economic shutdown on areas where it has influence, and carried out a wave of small-scale attacks against military, police, and infrastructure targets across the country.
Tuesday, February 16, 2016 - 09:21
Pope Francis has asked Mexican indigenous people in Chiapas state for forgiveness over they way they have been excluded from society. He made his appeal while celebrating Mass in three native languages after a new Vatican decree approved their use.
Tuesday, February 16, 2016 - 09:19
Hundreds of Marines have been quietly deploying over the past 16 months to assist the Iraqis fighting to retake territory, hard won by U.S. troops over the past decade or more, from brutal ISIS militants.