Authorities in Brazil have announced that they have uncovered a tax fraud scheme at the Finance Ministry's tax appeals board that might have ended up costing taxpayers up $5.96 billion.
Immigration officials have announced that a former El Salvadoran defense minister who has been tied to human rights abuses in the 1980s has been taken into U.S. immigration custody and is awaiting final deportation orders.
Although it remains the world's seventh largest economy, last year the nation of Brazil very narrowing avoided experiencing an economic contraction ( a decline in gross domestic product) as it had a growth rate of a mere 0.1 percent.
Thousands of protesters marched to the federal elections office in Mexico City on Thursday to mark the six-month anniversary of the disappearance of 43 missing college students in northern Guerrero, a notorious gang- and drug-ridden southwestern state in Mexico.
Leading a coalition of Sunni nations, Saudi Arabia has begun strikes against Houthi locations in Yemen as the Shiite rebels continue their advance through the country.
Discussions between the United States and Cuba turned to communications issues this week as a delegation led by Daniel Sepulveda, the U.S. State Department's coordinator for international communications, visited the Communist island.
Government-funded news operations are proving to be ineffective abroad, and the United States is losing an information war to foreign rivals including Russia and the ISIS terrorist organization, a federal agency report warned.
The president has agreed to maintain less than 10,000 troops in the country through 2015, after his Afghan opposite asked for more flexibility in the U.S. troop withdrawal schedule.
The Tunisian tourism industry is being dealt another blow as the sites where many "Star Wars" scenes were filmed are used by terrorists crossing into Libya. The region is where the planet world of Tatooine was filmed.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's approval numbers have benefited from the Obama administration's decision to declare his South American country a threat to U.S. national security, a local poll suggests.
Benefits for gay spouses of United Nations employees will no longer be determined by the staffers' home countries' laws on same-sex unions, meaning the international organization will apply the same rules to all legally married couples.
The singer of the local band "Los Plebes de Arranke" was found dead on Saturday morning in Tijuana, Baja California. The body of Rogelio Brambilla Lizárraga was discovered in a car parked in the city's Montebello neighborhood; he had been shot multiple times with guns of at least two different calibers.
Mogherini, the highest-ranking EU official to visit communist Cuba for several years, expressed hope that the two sides could sign an agreement by the end of 2015.
As Venezuela cannot afford to repair or replace radiotherapy machines, doctors are forced to conduct radical mastectomies in cases where radiation could help a patient, if it were available.
