An emergency hazardous materials clean-up is under way in Humboldt County, California where millions of gallons of highly corrosive chemicals are stored in unstable tanks that are leaking. Daniel Mintz of KMUD radio reports...
A landmark peace agreement finalized late last month in the Philippines established a new autonomous region in part of the south where Muslims are a majority in a mainly Catholic nation. The pact closes...
(See Alice Ollstein’s slideshow from Saturday’s rally in DC here or click on a thumbnail at the bottom of this post.) Immigrant activists and their allies rallied in cities across the country this weekend,...
This week marks 50 years since a military coup in Brazil paved the way for 21 years of dictatorship. During the regime’s rule, around 400 people were murdered or disappeared. From Rio de Janeiro,...
Members of the Senate Intelligence Committee voted this afternoon to declassify parts of a report on CIA interrogation techniques. Even before the vote, the CIA torture report made headlines after revelations that the agency...
by Shuriah Niazi Bhopal, India – Thousands of villagers in the Indian central state of Madhya Pradesh are opposing a proposed diamond mining project by global giant Rio Tinto. Residents and environmental groups are...
Some of Mexico’s highest profile drug kingpins have been detained or killed by security forces in recent months, and the government is touting a drop in the homicide rate, but many Mexican citizens continue...
Boko Haram, a sect with links to Al-Qaeda, has stepped up a violent campaign for the enforcement of Sharia law in Nigeria. In a briefing released Monday, the human rights organization Amnesty International estimates...
By Ekaterina Danilova An elderly woman, standing silently erect with hand-painted, striking banners is a common sight at pro-democracy and human rights rally in St. Petersburg, Russia. Some activists call her “the grandmother of...
After mass protests, officials in Pakistan’s capitol of Islamabad have postponed plans to evict nearly 80,000 people from unrecognized settlements there. Many of the residents are ethnic Pashtuns from the region bordering Afghanistan. Some...
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