J As General Motors Corp. prepares to sell its best assets to a streamlined new entity, the worst of what it owns will be auctioned off in bankruptcy court, including contaminated factory sites, parking lots...
US forces have launched a major military operation in southern Afghanistan in the first big push to drive the Taliban out of a key stronghold since Barack Obama became US president.
Four thousand marines, backed...
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) fired the fourth short-range missile in the day off its east coast on Thursday evening, South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported.
DPRK fired the fourth missile at...
MILITARY OFFICERS and right-wing forces in Honduras with long ties to the U.S. government organized a coup to topple the democratically elected president at the end of June--and the reaction of the Obama administration was...
Of the three main political forces in Uruguay, the National Party turnout was higher in all of Uruguay’s 19 electoral districts expect in the capital Montevideo which is the stronghold of the ruling Broad Front...
The current strain of H1N1 influenza, or swine flu, has people scared because it’s a novel virus that most of the population has never been exposed to. But as a group, H1N1 viruses aren’t new....
"Silvino was riding his bike on a dirt road near our home when he was poisoned by toxic agrochemicals, sprayed on a nearby field of soybeans. He died soon afterwards. He was 11," said his...
Less than two years after its discreet sealing, the truce between ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party and the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) seems to have ended.
The publication Jun. 12 of an article in...
"They told us 'go west or we will shoot you'," says Ashraf Sadallah. "Initially, we refused, so they began shooting very close all around our boat."
At 6am on Jun. 16, Sadallah and his brother...
Tens of thousands of Hondurans are marching towards the capital to support the return of constitutional President Manuel Zelaya after a coup three days ago, informed grassroots leaders.
Representatives of the teachers union told...
