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A watch tower at the Gaza/Egypt border crossing. (Photo: Marius Arnesen / Flickr) Rafah Border Crossing, between Egypt and Gaza — Hundreds of Palestinian residents of the …

Islamabad, Pakistan. (Photo: Waqas Ahmed / Flickr) Islamabad, Pakistan - At least eight people were killed on Saturday when a suicide bomber ripped through a restaurant in …

(Photo: moni / Flickr) When Sheela Gunn-Cushman decided to take part in a die-in at the California Republican Convention at the Hyatt Regency in Sacramento in March, …

On Tuesday, New Yorkers in the state’s 26th Congressional District delivered House Republicans a clear message that House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) plan to end Medicare won’t fly. …

Fed Gave Secret Bailout to Foreign Banks Without public disclosure, the Federal Reserve doled out money totaling at least $30 million to three foreign banks at interest …

Death threats targeting journalists were distressingly common during the tumultuous Salvadoran Civil War that took place in the late seventies and eighties. Over the course of the war, a …

On the morning of Friday, May 6th President Mauricio Funes of El Salvador’s left-wing FMLN party, arrived at the La Maroma agricultural cooperative in the department of Usulután for …

Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb general held responsible for the massacre of some 8,000 Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica in 1995, was arrested on Thursday, signaling Serbia’s …

Dubai, United Arab Emirates - The first sign that Bahrain's security forces were going to detain former Bahraini parliamentarian Jawad Fairooz came at 8:30 p.m. May 2, when about …

Paris - Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb general accused of war crimes including masterminding the massacre of some 8,000 Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica in 1995, has …