In the current political climate, where the Republican presidential front-runner has whipped up fervor against undocumented Mexican immigrants -- often based on economic arguments -- the reality is that China and India have overtaken Mexico as the largest sources of all new immigrants, legal or otherwise, in the U.S.
Two Indian sisters that are part of the Dalit caste – a group that has traditionally been known as "untouchable" in Hindi society -- have been told they will be gang raped as a punishment for crimes committed by their brother.
Maduro has extended border closures with Colombia to yet another six towns in the western state of Táchira. The towns that will experience the closures are Lobatera, San Juan de Colón, La Fría, Garcia de Hevia, Panamericana and Coloncito.
Thousands of demonstrators are demanding the resignation of Guatemalan President Otto Pérez Molina.
The president is currently facing impeachment proceedings over his alleged ties to a corruption scandal, which has led to the arrest of former vice president Roxana Baldetti.
Sen. Marco Rubio, one of the leading Republican presidential contenders, announced his foreign policy regarding China and how the U.S. can rein in the rising Asian nation.
At least 12 people were confirmed dead after Tropical Storm Erika lashed the island of Dominica and is headed across the Caribbean in the direction of south Florida.
In an effort to calm the border crisis that has heightened tensions between Venezuela and Colombia, the foreign ministers of both nations vowed on Wednesday to increase cooperation between the two South American neighbors.
Two weeks after massive chemical explosions devastated the Chinese port city of Tianjin, state prosecutors have accused 11 officials and port executives of “dereliction of duty” and “abuse of power.”
A Florida college student who suffered a car crash in Cuba and was stranded when she could not afford an air-ambulance flight will be able to return home thanks to the generosity of a Tampa-based company.
a 16-year-old Honduran girl who was presumed dead and buried reportedly started crying out from the coffin and banging to get out a day after she was laid to rest.
The United States and Mexico this week opened their first new rail link in more than a century, connecting Brownsville, in Texas' Cameron County, with the neighboring city of Matamoros, Tamaulipas.
Undocumented Colombian immigrants in Venezuela were packing up their belongings and crossing into their homeland on Tuesday after Caracas intensified a crackdown along the border between the two South American nations.
U.S Rep. Linda Sánchez, D-Calif., announced her support of the Iran nuclear deal and opposition to efforts challenging the agreement. Sánchez, chairperson of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, said the nuclear agreement is the best option to stop Iran from developing a nuclear bomb.
A Guatemalan court has ruled that the former dictator Gen. Efraín Ríos Montt will receive a new trial on charges of genocide, despite claims that his legal team has made that the 89-year-old is suffering from dementia.
Puerto Rico is readying for tropical storm after the National Hurricane Center on Wednesday issued a warning that also affects the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Since the border crossings between Colombia and Venezuela were closed over the weekend, more than 1,000 Colombians have been deported from the neighboring socialist nation.
In the wake of the recent prison deaths of fourteen gang members in western El Salvador, the nation’s Supreme Court has declared that street gangs, as well as those that financially support them, will be classified as terrorists.
The United Nations Security Council on Monday discussed the atrocities gays and lesbians suffer under ISIS occupation, as the body tackled a gay-rights issue for the first time in its 70-year history.
The decision by a small-town court in southern Russia to ban a Wikipedia page it said contained harmful information led to the entire online encyclopedia being briefly shut down for Internet users across the country.
