Latin America

Brazil Prosecutor Opposes Temer Labor Law Reforms

Fleury, a top labor prosecutor in Brazil, is standing against the government's proposal to allow mor...

Jan 25, 2017 09:34 AM EST

Singapore condemns call for ‘soft approach’ to drugs at UN meeting

Singapore has blasted calls to make the worldwide fight against illicit drugs less punitive, using a...

Apr 24, 2016 08:39 PM EDT

Colombia negotiators agree UN observer mission to monitor end of civil war

A civil war is about to end as Columbia government and Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia made a...

Jan 23, 2016 02:20 AM EST

Cocaine smugglers turn to South Asia for new routes, markets

Police who seized Asia's largest known shipment of liquid cocaine at a Bangladeshi port late last mo...

Jul 12, 2015 10:21 AM EDT

Pope Francis extends agenda of change to Vatican diplomacy

Pope Francis' hard-hitting criticisms of localization and inequality long ago set him out as a leade...

May 18, 2015 05:35 AM EDT

South Korea police clash with protesters over ferry disaster

South Korean police clashed with thousands of protesters, blocking their way to the presidential pal...

Apr 19, 2015 02:48 AM EDT

U.S. seeks to ease influx of Central American child migrants

Washington will allow some children in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras to apply for refugee stat...

Nov 14, 2014 08:19 PM EST

Rights body mulls forced sterilization of HIV-positive woman

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights will consider its first case of forced sterilization o...

Oct 01, 2014 04:13 AM EDT

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