In Turkey, the historic victory of a pro-Kurdish party redrew the political landscape in the country. Sunday’s election results end 13 years of domination by the religiously conservative AK Party and will be a...
India’s cabinet is considering amending the country’s child labor law to allow children younger than 14 to work in their family businesses and farms after school hours and during holidays. To take effect, the...
In Chile, hundreds of thousands of people are taking to the streets in ongoing demonstrations demanding free public education. President Michelle Bachelet signed an education reform bill into law last Friday, but the country’s...
Corruption scandals in Guatemala are fueling ongoing public protests across the country. Dozens of officials have been arrested and a slew of high-ranking politicians, including the country’s vice-president, have resigned in recent weeks. Many...
French police demolished a number of ad hoc migrant refugee camps in the country Tuesday, one in the northern port town of Calais and the other in central Paris. Last week FSRN’s Raphaël Krafft...
Senators are set to return to Capitol Hill on Sunday when they’ll try to break an impasse over the PATRIOT Act, the counter terrorism law passed just after 9/11. The major obstacle is Section...
The European Union asked member states Wednesday to take in about 40,000 asylum seekers from Syria and Eritrea over a period of two years. The plan, known as the European Agenda on Migration, aims...
A naturalized U.S. citizen held in a maximum security prison in Mexico has escalated her weeks-long hunger strike by announcing she will no longer drink liquids. Political prisoners in Mexico are often placed in...
A massive heat wave gripping India for more than a week now has left hundreds dead. As Bismillah Geelani reports, the country’s southern part is the worst hit with heat so extreme the roads...
Genetically modified organisms are the focus of a bill currently being debated in the Maine legislature, which would put the state’s existing law mandating labeling of foods containing GMOs into effect sooner. Another bill...
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