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Monday, September 28, 2015 - 06:27
Human rights violations in Honduras have skyrocketed since the 2009 coup d'etat against Manuel Zelaya, according to numerous human rights reports.
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Monday, September 28, 2015 - 06:25
The U.N. human rights chief says dead bodies are found nearly every day on the streets in some neighborhoods of Bujumbura, the capital.
Monday, September 28, 2015 - 06:24
Bolivian lawmakers on Saturday approved a bill to change the constitution in order to allow President Evo Morales to run for re-election and potentially stay in office until 2025.
Monday, September 28, 2015 - 06:23
The only person Henry Kissinger flattered more than President Richard Nixon was Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran. In the early 1970s, the Shah, sitting atop an enormous reserve of increasingly expensive oil and a key figure in Nixon and Kissinger’s move into the Middle East, wanted to be dealt with as a serious person.
Monday, September 28, 2015 - 06:22
Burkina Faso's cabinet has dissolved the elite presidential guard unit that took the interim president and prime minister hostage in a failed coup just weeks before elections, according to a series of decrees read on state television.
Monday, September 28, 2015 - 06:16
Iraq needs more equipment, training and intelligence but not ground troops from the U.S. or any other country, Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari said on Friday.
Monday, September 28, 2015 - 06:13
Increase in murders in capital stokes fears that brutal drug gangs have grabbed foothold.
Monday, September 28, 2015 - 06:08
Residents and medics said air strikes by helicopters flying from Saudi Arabia killed 30 civilians in a Yemeni village on Sunday, but Saudi authorities dismissed the accounts as "totally false".
Monday, September 28, 2015 - 06:07
When President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia met with the leader of his country’s largest guerrilla group this week to seal the outline of a deal to end more than five decades of war, he received an unsettling shock. At the last minute, he said, the rebel leader, Rodrigo Londoño, tried to back out of a crucial part of the newly negotiated framework.
Monday, September 28, 2015 - 06:00
The U.S. military’s Central Command admitted Friday that a Syrian fighter trained by U.S. forces handed over six vehicles and ammunition to an al Qaeda intermediary, “purportedly in exchange for safe passage within [his] operating area.”