Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair

Former Prime Minister Tony Blair could be barred from future public office in the United Kingdom.... More


U.S. state and local spending on prisons and jails grew at three times the rate of spending on schools over the last 33 years as the number of people behind bars ballooned under a spate of harsh sentencing laws, according to a government report issued in Washington. ... More


A new survey reveals that 491 people were killed by police in the United States during the first six months of 2016, showing an increase from 465 victims in the same period last year. ... More


Tony Blair’s deputy prime minister John Prescott says that the UK broke international law when it joined the invasion of Iraq in 2003.... More


At least 123 German police officers have been injured in clashes with thousands of leftist protesters in Berlin. ... More


The Palestinian Authority will stop cooperating with the so-called Quartet on the Middle East — which seeks to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — after accusing it of bias in favor of Israel. ... More


Lawyers for imprisoned U.S. Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning are demanding access to their client, after unconfirmed reports surfaced last week about a possible suicide attempt. ... More


Thousands of Honduran students poured into the streets in the capital city of Tegucigalpa Sunday to protest the government's efforts to privatize higher education.... More


The Criminal Chamber of the National Court of Justice upheld a lower court sentence in the conviction of a military official, identified as Fernando E., for the crime of race-based hatred toward Michael Arce, a former cadet at the Eloy Alfaro Military School.... More


In a landmark legal effort to prosecute systemic wartime sexual violence, fourteen former military officers are being tried in a Peruvian court for the rape of indigenous women during the country's two-decades-long “dirty war”... More


The daughter of late socialist leader Salvador Allende, Isabel, said Saturday that she is “more than ready” to run for the presidency of Chile.... More


Former Chilean Army Commander Juan Emilio Cheyre, along with six military officials, was arrested Thursday in Chile for his involvement in the death of 15 people as part of an operation known as the Death Caravan, launched a month after the Pinochet coup in October 1973.... More


Paraguayan Foreign Minister Eladio Loizaga has confirmed that the foreign ministers of the member-states of the Mercosur trade bloc will meet this coming Monday to discuss the political situation of Venezuela.... More


Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto praised his administration Friday for being the most effective in terms of job creation, citing more than two million new jobs created so far by his government, a number he hailed as "historic."... More


Zapatista Indigenous groups delivered almost three tons of food to the striking teachers of the CNTE dissident union in the impoverished state of Chiapas in southern Mexico.... More


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