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Monday, August 24, 2015 - 06:59
Each year, thousands of Haitians venture east into the Dominican Republic in search of low-wage jobs in agriculture and construction and at the big all-inclusive resorts.
Monday, August 24, 2015 - 06:56
Four suspected al-Qaeda militants were killed overnight in an apparent US drone strike in Mukalla, the southern Yemeni city that the group overran in April, a local official said on Sunday.
Monday, August 24, 2015 - 06:52
Reporter Elena Milashina has concluded that the “Russian special services have controlled” the flow of jihadists into Syria, where they have lately joined up not only with ISIS but other radical Islamist factions.
Monday, August 24, 2015 - 06:51
Last Sunday was, briefly, the bloodiest day yet with 40 murders. But the record was beaten on Monday with 42 deaths, and surpassed again on Tuesday with 43. Even Iraq – with its civil war, suicide bombings, mortar attacks and US drone strikes – could not match such a lethal start to the week.
Monday, August 24, 2015 - 06:24
Signatories of a major treaty aimed at regulating the international arms trade should agree a number of key steps for its implementation at a conference this week, host nation Mexico said on Sunday.
Monday, August 24, 2015 - 06:19
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto last week was cleared of wrongdoing in a six-month investigation of whether his government improperly awarded construction contracts, a development that should have been good news.Yet because the probe was led by an auditor who Pena Nieto appointed, and who reports to him, it did little to quiet critics or quell concern about favoritism to preferred business partners by his administration.
Monday, August 24, 2015 - 06:14
Guatemala’s president, Otto Pérez Molina, angrily rejected calls for his resignation on Sunday, denying any involvement in a far-reaching scheme to defraud the government of customs revenue in exchange for bribes.
Friday, August 21, 2015 - 10:42
A total of 21 U. S. Democratic lawmakers demanded on Wednesday that Secretary of State John Kerry suspend and re-evaluate the “training and support to the Honduran police and military units ... until human rights abuses are adequately addressed by the Honduran government.”
Friday, August 21, 2015 - 07:59
Major regional powers are vying to strengthen their geopolitical foothold on the strategically vital Eurasian continent with their distinctive policy initiatives striving to court Asian nations including South Korea.
Friday, August 21, 2015 - 07:31
The Ugandan People's Defence Force (UPDF) Special Force Command (SFC) says it has created a new elite counter-terrorism special forces unit which graduated last Friday after a one year-long pre-deployment programme run by US Navy SEALS at the Sera Kasenyi Special Forces School near Entebbe.