Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad can continue to count on military support from Moscow, as Russian President Vladimir Putin insisted the aid was needed "to counter terrorist aggression."
Soon after his nation is graced by a papal visit, Cuban President Raul Castro will be on his way to the United States to speak at the U.N. General Assembly.
Mexico has confirmed that eight of its citizens were killed over the weekend, when Egyptian armed forces attacked a dozen tourists, taking them for terrorists.
North Korea said on Tuesday that it was ready to use nuclear weapons against the United States and announced that it has restarted operations at its atomic bomb fuel production plants.
Colombia claims that two Venezuelan military aircraft violated sovereign airspace on Saturday and said on Monday that it would launch a formal protest.
The United States is helping to prosecute Salvadoran military officers it once partnered with, who are accused of atrocities in the Central American country's 1979-92 civil war.
Three more arrested! Three more suspects have been arrested in connection to the Bangkok bombing last month. BBC reports that three more suspects have been arrested in connection to the Bangkok bombing that killed over 20 people and injuring more than 120.
As recently as 2006, around eight in 10 Latinos who were raised in the church and maintained the tradition as adults. According to the The Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA), a Catholic research center, this number has gone down to seven in 10 last year.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has become a heroine of human rights by insisting that Germany, as well as the whole of the 28-nation European Union, has a duty to shelter people fleeing civil wars.
Brazilian police have asked the Supreme Court for permission to question ex-President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva over his ties to the Petrobras corruption scandal.
Thousands of taxi drivers in Brazil held a protest rally against Uber, arguing that the smartphone-based car service has unfair advantages that hurt their businesses.
Employees traveling to appointments will be paid for their travel times Workers who spend time getting to and from their appointments without a fixed office should be paid for that time, the European Court of Justice has ruled, the BBC reports.
Many Latin Americans who were alive in 1973 will remember the date 9/11 for another reason Sept. 11 of course marks the terrible anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center Twin Towers in New York City by al-Qaida.
President Barack Obama won a major foreign policy victory on Thursday, when Senate Democrats blocked a Republican resolution disapproving his historic nuclear agreement with Iran.
Rodgers scores another touchdown off the field Reigning NFL MVP Aaron Rodgers is one of the best quarterbacks in the league. One of the perks of this? He gets an endorsement from a well known sportswear manufacturer.