Pro-Palestine organizers and activists in Ecuador's capital, Quito, converged on the nation's second-largest bank, Banco del Pacifico, calling on it to end its contract with the British-based security company G4S.... More

Until as recently as last year, Peru’s national police force harbored a “death squad” that is responsible for the extrajudicial killings of at least 20 people over a four-year period... More

Relatives of the dozens of victims killed in a massacre at the hands of Mexican federal police in the state of Michoacan last year are renewing their appeals for justice after the release of a scathing report that concluded that 22 of the murders were tantamount to “arbitrary executions.” ... More

Around 100 U.S. troops have been deployed to a southern city in Afghanistan which risks falling to the Taliban militants. ... More

Students in Mexico returned to school on Monday, but dissident teachers were not in the classroom to greet them. ... More

Heavily armed white supremacists, carrying the confederate flag that symbolizes slavery in the U.S. and banners that read “White Lives Matter,” took over an area in front of the NAACP headquarters in Houston, Texas.... More

In the U.S. state of Louisiana, more than 100,000 people have applied for federal assistance, as cleanup begins from last week’s historic flooding.... More

In Puerto Rico, activists disrupted a business conference in San Juan to protest laws that give new residents and some business owners complete exceptions on a large number of taxes... More