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.
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.
Colombia claims that two Venezuelan military aircraft violated sovereign airspace on Saturday and said on Monday that it would launch a formal protest.
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.
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.
The Cuban government says that among the freed will be some foreign prisoners and inmates, who were set for conditional release next year. Release is very much based on the nature of the crime, as those prisoners who have been found guilty of crimes against state security will not be eligible
