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The month-old mediation effort by Costa Rican President Oscar Arias to resolve Honduras’ political crisis is foundering under the near-universal opposition of Honduras’ top leaders to permitting deposed President Manuel Zelaya to return to...
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The U.S. and British governments plan to spend millions of dollars over the next two months to try to persuade Afghan farmers not to plant opium poppy, by far the country’s most profitable cash crop and a major source of Taliban funding and...
One day in early February, after a year and a half in various American detention centers, detainee No. 318360 was handed a letter that he was to give to his mother.
It seemed too horrendous even to imagine. But the case of the mother who caused a deadly wrong-way crash while drunk and stoned is part of a disturbing trend: Women in the U.S. are drinking more, and drunken-driving arrests among women are rising...
A sprawling refugee tent city just blocks from the presidential palace has become a nagging reminder to residents of Colombia’s cosmopolitan capital that a brutal conflict is being fought in far-flung provinces.
Since March, more than 2,000...
The United States has not had formal diplomatic relations with Cuba for more than four and a half decades, however since the Carter administration the U.S. has maintained an “Interests Section” in Havana.
Ambassador James Cason (retired) is the...
Bogota’s Ombudsman Office denounced a “flood” of accusations of human rights violations Wednesday and requested assistance to be able to assess all cases.
Ombudsman for Human Rights, Monica Naranjo, receives daily 100 cases of...
President Barack Obama, who vowed to revive the Arab-Israeli peace process at the start of his term, has begun with a direct and public challenge to Israel’s latest plan to build new settlements in East Jerusalem.
It’s a risky move that has already...
We are going to get various tank battalions, at least double, infantry and artillery,” said Mr Chavez as he criticised Colombia’s decision to grant US aircraft and naval vessels full access and operational rights in four bases.
“It is...
It’s not quite a six-month itch, but even fans of Barack Obama are getting anxious about his ability to handle the suddenly daunting array of political challenges before him, whether it is stubbornly rising unemployment, trouble in Afghanistan or...
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