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Wednesday, February 3, 2016 - 05:06
A US judge has ordered Petrobras, the state-run Brazilian oil company, to face class-action litigation by investors seeking to recoup billions of dollars in losses stemming from a bribery and political kickback scandal.
Wednesday, February 3, 2016 - 05:03
A United Nations panel has ruled that Mexico’s 2013 arrest and continuing detention of a community police leader was illegal, raising hopes among her supporters she could be freed.
Wednesday, February 3, 2016 - 05:00
It's no coincidence that most Zika-related microcephaly cases were found in the north-east of the country: of course, the weather there is hot, which is prime breeding ground for the Aedis aegypti, but it is also where most of Brazil’s poverty is concentrated.
Tuesday, February 2, 2016 - 07:33
Brigadier General Ahmed Asseri, spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen, told Reuters: "Now our rules of engagement are: you are close to the border, you are killed."
Tuesday, February 2, 2016 - 07:09
All the gains under Plan Colombia — as the U.S.-Colombia partnership has come to be known — now hang in the balance as a result of President Santos’s surprising decision three years ago to launch yet another peace process with the FARC, a $600 million-a-year narco-terrorist enterprise that has waged war on Colombian society for five decades.
Tuesday, February 2, 2016 - 07:08
Officials with the Peruvian Armed Forces and the United States Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) recently conducted a conference to strengthen ties between the countries' Military legal professionals.
Tuesday, February 2, 2016 - 07:06
As the Colombian government nears a deal to end to its 50-year conflict with FARC guerrillas, it is intensifying another war in the jungles here along the Caribbean coast, the stronghold of a shadowy drug organization known as Clan Úsuga.
Tuesday, February 2, 2016 - 07:01
France called on the U.S. to lift the economic embargo against Cuba during a historic state visit Monday by the Caribbean island's president aimed at boosting economic relations between Havana and Paris.
Tuesday, February 2, 2016 - 06:58
As the Colombian government nears a deal to end to its 50-year conflict with FARC guerrillas, it is intensifying another war in the jungles here along the Caribbean coast, the stronghold of a shadowy drug organization known as Clan Úsuga.
Tuesday, February 2, 2016 - 06:54
Dozens of Kazakhs struggling with the spiraling costs of dollar mortgages amid the plunging value of the tenge currency have demonstrated in the country's largest city, Almaty.