Pentagon lawyers for a Guantánamo captive want to get sworn testimony from the Yemeni leader, now in New York for medical treatment, but the State Department responds that he has diplomatic immunity.
Suriname and St Lucia are seeking membership in the ALBA group of left-leaning nations, as the bloc continues to flex its muscle and take jabs at the United States.
Rescuers have recovered 17 bodies and pulled 13 survivors from white-capped waters off this coastal town after an overloaded boat carrying migrants from the Dominican Republic capsized, officials said Sunday.
Twenty years ago, Chávez tried to seize power by force. Now, the president is courting controversy as he celebrates that failed uprising.
A senior Pentagon official told defense lawyers to write him by Monday on why the Sept. 11 mass murder file should not go forward as a death-penalty case.
The Obama administration would cross a “dangerous line” and send a “horrible message” with a plan to encourage peace talks with the Afghan Taliban by transferring five prisoners from U.S. military detention, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said Thursday.
This time, Pentagon defense lawyers are citing a new Guantánamo prison camp controversy involving inspection of confidential mail in their request for a delay in the Sept. 11 mass murder case.
A kind word of advice for Republican hopeful Mitt Romney: Don’t read too much into your impressive victory among Hispanic voters in Tuesday’s Florida primary. You will face an uphill battle to emulate it among Latino voters nationwide.
Government report shows agricultural reforms not increasing production or dropping prices.
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff pushed back against criticisms of Cuba’s human rights record that have intruded on her first state visit to the communist island, saying a U.S. detention camp for suspected terrorists at Guantánamo Bay is also a concern.
The motion to depose Ali Abdullah Saleh was under seal at the Pentagon Tuesday; the Yemeni president is in the United States recovering from burns suffered in an ‘Arab Spring’ explosion at his presidential compound in Sana’a.
Interested in Persian cooking or the U.S. plot against Syria? Iran wants viewers to tune into its new Spanish-language satellite TV station.
The aging warriors, who have moved on to civilian roles, differ on whether the fight against the Sandinistas was worth it.
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said Tuesday that her country acted properly in granting an entry visa to Cuban dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez, but that it's an internal matter for Cuba as to whether Sanchez is allowed to leave the island.
U.S. officials are telling lawmakers there’s been no decision yet on whether to trade five dangerous Taliban prisoners now held at Guantánamo Bay as part of nascent peace talks with the Taliban.
A legal charity supporting detainees in Guantánamo has condemned the conviction and sentencing of an Algerian after he was forcibly repatriated after eight years in the U.S. Guantánamo detention center.
Mexico’s ambassador to Venezuela was briefly held hostage Sunday night in Venezuela, as the nation has been fighting off a surging crime wave.
Enrique López Oliva remembers the days when Cuban Catholics hung their religious icons in their grandmother’s rooms, hoping that Fidel Castro’s communist government would not dare punish an “abuelita.”
Granma reports that term limits and the economy are on the agenda of this weekend’s Cuban Communist Party Congress in Havana
Cuba’s ruling Communist Party opens an unprecedented gathering Saturday that will approve term limits and call for trimming the party’s role in government — and might even hint at who will succeed Raúl Castro.
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