In Zimbabwe, a one-day general strike Wednesday brought much of the the country to a halt. Public sector workers stayed home and streets were largely empty, but reports of sporadic violence increased as the...
The number of people killed in a massive explosion and fire in Baghdad continues to climb almost two days after a suicide bomb attack in a crowded shopping area. Amnesty International is calling for...
Gunfire broke out Monday in the Kupwara District of disputed Kashmir near the India-Pakistan border. Indian newspapers report that the clash left at least one separatist guerilla dead and an Indian soldier wounded. Fighting...
For the first time in 30 years, policies that drive federal leasing of coal on public lands are receiving a major review. The nation’s largest coal reserves in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin are the...
Emboldened by the razor-thin majority in Britain who voted to pull the United Kingdom out of the European Union, far-right anti-immigrant parties across Europe, including France and Holland are clamoring for a vote of...
In Africa, wildlife groups say rising ivory prices are accelerating the poaching of endangered elephants. The Kenya-based group Save the Elephants reports prices have nearly tripled in recent years driving a wave of poaching...
Making good on promises to take their demand for a vote on gun control back to their districts, House Democrats convened public events across the country today in what they call a National Day...
The Oakland City Council voted unanimously on Monday to ban the transport and storage of coal shipments. Phil Tagami, developer of the old Oakland Army base, had proposed what would have been the largest...
The U.S. Supreme Court today struck down a Texas law that shut down more than half of the state’s abortion clinics over the span of three years. It was the court’s first major ruling...
A teachers’ union protest in southern Mexico has grown and intensified after federal police used deadly force to clear highway blockades in the state of Oaxaca last Sunday. At least nine people were killed...
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