Associated Press
Friday, April 25, 2014 - 06:32
Critics say it's a thinly veiled attempt by Martinelli, a supermarket magnate known for bruising his opponents, to keep his grip on power after a five-year rule marked by mounting complaints of corruption and the steady erosion of checks and balances.
Friday, April 25, 2014 - 06:20
The amendments were approved with 106 votes. They must still be approved by the lower house of congress.
Thursday, April 24, 2014 - 11:35
Almost 3.5 million civilians in Syria have virtually no access to desperately needed humanitarian aid and people are dying needlessly every day as violence and extremism escalate and the risk of sectarian violence grows, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday.
Thursday, April 24, 2014 - 10:48
CAIRO — An Islamic militant group in Egypt has claimed responsibility for a bombing that killed a senior police officer the day before.
Thursday, April 24, 2014 - 10:46
A suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden car into a police checkpoint south of Baghdad on Thursday morning, killing at least 11 people, officials said, the latest episode in an uptick in violence in the run-up to next week's parliamentary elections.
Thursday, April 24, 2014 - 08:24
"He's also a very determined individual, and Alan means what he says, which is that one year from now if this issue has been resolved, he will come home to his family. If it has not been resolved, he will come home dead," Gilbert said.
Thursday, April 24, 2014 - 08:23
The system distorts the vote by giving half the seats in each district to the trailing coalition as long as it gets at least a third of the votes. In practice, that has meant many elections are decided behind closed doors.
Thursday, April 24, 2014 - 08:18
Mexico's governing party appeared to step away on Wednesday from a proposal that would authorize officials to block Internet and telecom signals, pulling back a day after anti-censorship protests.
Thursday, April 24, 2014 - 05:23
El futuro de las fuerzas militares y de policía de Colombia o una reducción está fuera de los temas de negociaciones en la mesa de diálogos de paz del gobierno colombiano con las guerrillas de las FARC, destacó el miércoles el jefe de los negociadores.
Thursday, April 24, 2014 - 05:09
Public Safety Director Jose Maria Beltrame told reporters the investigation would explore all possible hypotheses in the death of Douglas Rafael da Silva Pereira, whose body was found Tuesday in the Pavao-Pavaozinho hillside “favela”.