Associated Press
Thursday, April 24, 2014 - 04:59
Despite a government threat to fire them, some 500 soldiers marched in Bolivia's capital Wednesday for a second consecutive day to demand greater upward mobility within the armed forces.
Thursday, April 24, 2014 - 04:57
Other countries in the region with similar shootdown policies include Brazil, Colombia, Honduras and Venezuela, all cocaine transit countries. Peru had a shootdown policy, but halted it.
Thursday, April 24, 2014 - 04:56
U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Wednesday he is exploring ways to deepen U.S.-Mexican defense ties, including the possibility of training exercises with Mexican forces.
Wednesday, April 23, 2014 - 10:20
Militants wearing military uniforms attacked a balloting center in a remote northern area and killed 10 guards, a senior police official said on Tuesday. The militants showed up at the polling center late Monday in Daqouq, a village outside the northern city of Kirkuk, saying they had come to carry out a search, the police said. Instead they shot and killed the guards. The attack was part of an effort by militants to derail the April 30 parliamentary elections in Sunni-dominated areas.
Wednesday, April 23, 2014 - 10:00
The directors of five United Nations agencies that provide humanitarian aid to Syria say their appeal for $6.5 billion in emergency funding for 2014 has been mostly ignored.
Wednesday, April 23, 2014 - 09:51
UNITED NATIONS — A U.N. committee took no action Tuesday on the U.S. refusal to grant a visa to Iran’s chosen ambassador to the United Nations after hearing from both sides.
Wednesday, April 23, 2014 - 09:47
The Obama administration said Tuesday it has certified that Egypt is upholding its 35-year-old peace treaty with Israel and therefore qualifies for some military and counterterrorism assistance.
Wednesday, April 23, 2014 - 07:11
Jordan’s foreign ministry summoned Israeli ambassador Daniel Nevo to protest Israel’s actions in Jerusalem’s Temple Mount during clashes with Palestinian protesters in recent days, Jordanian media reported Monday evening.
Wednesday, April 23, 2014 - 07:02
Weakened Syrian rebels are making their last desperate stand in Homs, as forces loyal to President Bashar Assad launch their harshest assault yet to expel them from the central city, once known as the capital of the revolution.
Wednesday, April 23, 2014 - 07:01
It was the latest violence to hit one of Rio’s so-called “pacified” slums — impoverished areas that for decades were controlled by drug gangs.