The mother of Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi, who has been held in a Mexican jail for three months, has appealed to the top U.S. diplomat in Mexico, seeking his help in getting the Marine released.
In a show of good faith, Japan announced Thursday that it would remove or ease up on a number of sanctions it placed on North Korea while Pyongyang opens up investigations into the kidnappings of Japanese citizens decades ago.
The U.S. Embassy in Uganda issued a warning Thursday that an unknown terrorist group could be planning a terror attack at the country's Entebbe International Airport that day.
Despite being one of the fastest runners in the world, Oscar Pistorius' doctor stressed the fact that the athlete still deals with the hardship of being disabled during his murder trial on Thursday.
A woman from South Florida and her travel partner are being detained in a Cuban jail on accusations of smuggling synthetic marijuana through the Havana airport on Saturday.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned Moscow on Wednesday about the option to implement strict economic sanctions against Russia if the country refuses to back a peace plan announced by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.
On Tuesday Venezuela's medical federation (FMV) said that the government should provide security in hospitals. The demand came after two people were killed at a medical center on Sunday.
At the United Nations on Tuesday, the Annual Report of the Secretary-General on Children and Armed Conflict was released showing record numbers of children recruited, used and killed in 23 conflict situations around the world.
Known in Cuba as el bloqueo, the United States placed an embargo against Cuba on October 19, 1960, nearly two years after the Batista regime was deposed by the Cuban Revolution. Fifty years later, polls indicate that half of Cuban-Americans in Miami would change the United States' standing relations with Cuba.
