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Monday, February 8, 2016 - 06:05
The Islamic State (IS) militant group has been forced to cut its fighters' pay by up to 50 percent because U.S.-led air strikes have had a substantial impact on the money it makes from oil, a senior U.S official said on Monday.
Monday, February 8, 2016 - 05:04
Breaking years of inaction over one of the most emblematic cases from El Salvador’s brutal civil war, Salvadoran police have begun to arrest former military officers who are accused in the killings of six Jesuit priests, a housekeeper and her teenage daughter.
Monday, February 8, 2016 - 05:02
President Rafael Correa says he has fired Ecuador’s military high command for refusing to pay back to the state $41 million from an overvalued land deal.
Monday, February 8, 2016 - 04:58
Remote, sparsely-populated regions of Colombia will see “spectacular growth” when they become open for development following a peace deal with Marxist rebels, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said.
Monday, February 8, 2016 - 04:56
Two days with 10 men who left Central America in early November to embark on an exhausting journey, made riskier by the Mexican authorities’ crackdown on migrants.
Friday, February 5, 2016 - 06:53
Investigators have discovered a string of new cases in which U.N. peacekeepers allegedly sexually abused or exploited women and girls in the Central African Republic, widening a scandal that has sent shock waves through the United Nations and threatens to undermine one of its most crucial missions.
Friday, February 5, 2016 - 06:51
Some 4,800 miles from Beijing, China is expected soon to start construction of its newest naval base in Djibouti, a tiny African nation where the mouth of the Red Sea meets the vast Indian Ocean. The permanent facility will be China’s first overseas military outpost, granting Beijing access to the Arabian Peninsula and projecting force near its investments in sub-Saharan Africa.
Friday, February 5, 2016 - 06:44
A member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee called for the U.S. to cease military involvement in the Saudi-led war in Yemen.
Friday, February 5, 2016 - 06:43
A confidential report to the United Nations Security Council found there have been attempts to smuggle weapons from Democratic Republic of Congo through Rwanda to rebels in Burundi where a political crisis threatens to spiral out of control. The report by experts who monitor sanctions on Democratic Republic of Congo said Congolese authorities arrested Rwandan and Congolese civilians and two Congolese army officers in October and November on suspicion of arms smuggling.
Friday, February 5, 2016 - 06:41
President Obama welcomed President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia to the White House on Thursday for a buoyant celebration of the $10 billion, 15-year American effort to help Colombia vanquish its violent drug cartels and end its festering guerrilla war.