Bolivian police on Monday freed hundreds of Amazon Indians arrested in a protest march against the proposed construction of a highway through a nature reserve, after local residents blocked runways to prevent them from being flown away.
Police used teargas and truncheons Sunday to disperse hundreds of Amazon Indians on a months-long march to the Bolivian capital La Paz to protest against the building of a highway through a forest reserve where Indians have lived for centuries.
Two US citizens who have been detained in Iran on charges of espionage since 2009 touched down in New York on Sunday, after being released from Tehran's notorious Evin prison last week on $1 million bail, paid by Oman.
With unemployment spiking and black leaders calling on Obama to tackle problems in minority communities, a new poll suggests growing disillusionment amongst African-Americans with the country’s first black president.
On Friday afternoon Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (pictured) will hand over a formal application seeking full UN membership for the Palestinian Territories, despite disapproval from the US, which plans to veto the move.
Soon after President Barack Obama ruled out a “shortcut” to a Palestinian state Wednesday, his French counterpart took to the stage to make a proposal: non-member statehood. Widely expected not to take flight, is the stunt driven by ulterior motives?
Diplomats from dozens of Western nations walked out of the UN General Assembly hall Thursday as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad delivered scathing attacks on the US and Western Europe.
Smiley, brash, and buoyed by the blessing of the Tea Party, Texas Governor Rick Perry has soared to the top of the field of Republicans vying to evict Obama from the White House. But some party leaders and strategists wonder if he is up to the task.
Stocks were down Wednesday as the US Federal Reserve announced a radical plan to shift $400 billion in short-term bonds to longer-term Treasury bonds, in a bid to lower interest rates and jumpstart the country's flagging economy.
Troy Davis, convicted of the 1989 slaying of a police officer in Savannah, Georgia, was put to death by lethal injection on Wednesday after the US Supreme Court decided against issuing a stay of execution.
