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.
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.
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.
The immigration debate - dominated this summer by White House hopeful Donald Trump's controversial comments - could take on a more serious tone if Pope Francis decides to tackle the issue during his September visit to the United States.
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.
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 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.
Two U.S. servicemen, an American college student and a Briton were awarded the highest honor in France on Monday for thwarting a suspected terrorist from carrying out a possible massacre aboard a Paris-bound train last week.
Broken security cameras along the getaway route used by the main suspect in last week's Bangkok bombing are complicating the investigation of the terrorist attack that killed 20 and injured 120.
After months of protests centered on accusations that link him to a multi-million dollar corruption scandal, President Otto Pérez Molina is refusing to step down from office.
Two Ashley Madison customers in Canada allegedly took their own lives after their data was hacked as part of the massive data leak on the affair website.
The entire world’s economy has been shaken over fears concerning the stability of China’s market.
On Monday, China's benchmark Shanghai Composite index declined 8.5 percent, the worst close the communist country has had since 2007, and the Dow Jones Industrial dropped over 1,000 points as trading opened.
President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner has announced that over 4,000 archaeological artifacts, which have been kept in Argentina, will be returned their rightful owners in Ecuador and Peru.
