Despite recent speculation that she might run for congress, Argentine president Cristina Fernandez says she will not seek another political office when her second term ends in December.
Eight Brazilian senators who were trying to meet with jailed opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez in Venezuela say that they had to flee for safety after their bus was attacked.
According to the The Cuban Commission for Human Rights and Reconciliation, there are currently 60 political prisoners jailed in the communist country and 11 people under some form of parole
Pope Francis' long-awaited encyclical "Laudato Si'," in which the leader of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics warned that climate change had brought the planet to a "breaking point" and called for an environmental "revolution," has received mixed reactions across the American political landscape.
In a long-awaited encyclical, Pope Francis on Thursday called for a "revolution" on climate change, a threat the leader of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics warned had brought the planet to the verge of a perilous "breaking point."
Prince Harry, the younger son of Prince Charles and fifth in line to the British throne, on Tuesday welcomed Michelle Obama for tea at Kensington Palace as the first lady embarked on the first leg of her week-long European tour.
The recent rapprochement between Washington and Havana did not keep the Cuban diplomats at the United Nations from demanding "self-determination and independence" for the people of Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory.
Nasir al-Wahishi, al-Qaida's second in command, was killed in a U.S. airstrike earlier this month, the White House confirmed on Tuesday, according to the Associated Press.
