Brazilian President Michel Temer said Sunday that he will block a controversial bill that would grant amnesty to politicians who received illegal campaign donations. Temer, along with Speaker of the Lower House...
The Parliament of Iraq on Saturday voted to give militias fighting Islamic State" (IS) militant group legal status in the country. The 208 votes allow Popular Mobilization Units (Hashd Al-Sha'abi) to fight the militant group throughout...
Swiss voters on Sunday rejected a referendum to phase out the nation's nuclear power program. The referendum failed with 54.2 % of voters agreeing to keep nuclear power programs with only 45.8...
A lawyer for Hillary Clinton on Saturday announced that the Clinton campaign is joining Green Party candidate Jill Stein's recount in Wisconsin, and the campaign promised it will look into allegations of voter fraud. General counsel Marc...
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon gave his condolences to the Cuban people and the family of the nation’s former President Fidel Castro, who passed away late Friday night. Ban spoke on the last...
The government refused a plea offer from accused white supremacist Dylann Roof on Friday. Roof, the man charged with killing nine black church members attending Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, offered to plead guilty in exchange...
A 66-year-old woman and six-year-old boy have died in a fire in the Greek migrant camp of Moria on Lesbos, causing some experts to question humanitarian conditions at several Grecian migrant camps. Two others...
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan threatened to send a new wave of migrants to Europe following a vote to halt negotiations over European Union membership yesterday. The discussions were focused upon whether to continue negotiations with Turkey...
According to an John McKissick at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on Thursday, members of the Rohingya Muslim community have been subjected to numerous atrocities by troops in Myanmar, including execution, rape, starvation...
UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon on Thursday expressed hope that a new peace deal between the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the Colombian government would help bring an end to a...