Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced his preparedness for "constructive dialogue" with Britain's newly appointed Prime Minister Theresa May.... More


Rabbi Colonel Eyal Karim

The Israeli government is facing fresh criticism over the appointment of Rabbi Colonel Eyal Karim to the role of chief rabbi of the Israeli military despite his previous comments suggesting that Israeli soldiers could rape non-Jewish women in time of war because their “identities are erased.”... More


Thousands of vacationers have been evacuated in southern France, where a raging fire threatened to sweep through several campsites.... More


An Argentinean team of forensics working in Mexico has submitted its autopsy conclusions about the only Ayotzinapa student's body found in September 2014, finding he was brutally tortured before dying, coinciding with his family's claims against the government's allegations.... More


The Union of South American Nations, UNASUR, has warned Brazil that planned budget cuts by its interim government could lead to an increase in poverty in the country. ... More


The National Bolivarian Armed Forces have taken control of ports, warehouses and industries after the start of a new operation to supply Venezuela with food and other essential products.... More


Demonstrations are continuing across the United States over the fatal police shootings of Alton Sterling in the U.S. state of Louisiana, and Philando Castile in Minnesota.... More


A prominent civil rights group has criticized tactics used by U.S. police against people who were protesting at recent killings of African Americans. ... More


A new poll shows that presumptive U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s lead over her Republican rival, Donald Trump, has fallen to three points across the country.... More


Seventy-six prisoners remain in the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, after the U.S. transferred three prisoners in the past 48 hours.... More


Russell "Maroon" Shoatz

In the United States, a former Black Panther held for more than two decades in solitary confinement has won a permanent reprieve from solitary and nearly $100,000 in a settlement with the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections.... More


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


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