According to the Panorama Laboral de América Latina y el Caribe 2014, the urban unemployment rate for the region may in 2015 go to as high as 6.3 percent.
Mexico’s finance minister Luis Videgaray has announced on national television that though he is willing to submit to an independent investigation to probe the methods by which he acquired his home, he will neither sell his home or step down from his position.
The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee has released new information claiming the Bush administration misled the American people in the run-up to the war in Iraq.
As protests over the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown continue across the country, Mexicans living in New York and Los Angeles have been protesting the missing 43 students disappeared by local police in Iguala. This weekend, the two groups will march together to demand an end to human rights violations by the state against their own people.
The daughter of Korean Air's chairman resigned from her remaining posts with the carrier Friday and apologized for what global media have dubbed her "nut rage" scandal. Cho Hyun-ah had a plane returned to the gate in New York on Dec. 5 after a flight attendant in first class offered her macadamia nuts in a bag, not on a plate.
Brazilian police have captured a man who has confessed to 39 murders. Tiago Henrique Gomes da Rocha, 26, was arrested on Tuesday after being pulled over in the city of Goiania.
Malala Yousafzai, a joint winner, along with Indian child rights campaigner Kailash Satyarth, of the $1.1 million Nobel Peace Prize, has spoken of her sympathy for the Mexican asylum seeker who interrupted the Oslo ceremony in which she was about to receive her medal and diploma by chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee Thorbjørn Jagland.
The environmental group Greenpeace has angered Peru with its latest stunt. Both Peruvian government officials and the Peruvian people have lashed out against Greenpeace after the group sneaked unto the Nazca Lines archeological site to place a political statement now lost amidst the anger of thousands of Peruvians.
A South African judge has declared that prosecutors can move forward with an appeal against the acquittal of murder charges for Oscar Pistorius, who was convicted of the lesser charge of culpable murder for killing his girlfriend in 2013.
The latest raid by Swedish authorities has definitely created a longer-lasting problem for top torrent and movie pirating destination, The Pirate Bay. Now going on 48 hours, the site and its mirrors are still down -- its founders behind bars.
The Britain-based 24 hours multi-media-news operation Sky News is reporting that they have gained access to an illegal prison high in the mountains of Mexico's Sierra Madre where hitmen for Mexico's drug cartels have been jailed by vigilantes who have simply plucked them off from the streets.
The new position is seen by Palestine as a move closer to international recognition. The court in The Hague tries international war crimes. Palestine's new position could grant it the ability to ask the court to pursue war crimes charges against Israel.
