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With a US-trained military officer now running Burkina Faso, will Washington press for a democratic transition or legitimize a military coup?
The murder of students in Guerrero is raising questions once again about the complicity of law enforcement and public officials in Mexico's drug wars.
The country's late dictator leaves behind a 1-million-strong diaspora unlikely to ever return home.
Beijing is experimenting with "soft power" approaches, but brute force remains an omnipresent threat.
The United States and its allies keep waiting on Iran to make more concessions on its nuclear enrichment program. But they’re missing the bigger picture.
The Obama administration’s war plans in Iraq and Syria are illegal, ill-conceived and destined to fail. Here’s what the US—and you—can do instead.
Migrant domestic workers from Bangladesh enjoy little protection from their government, but they’re not alone.
Hundreds of protesters recently gathered at the World Bank to shame a gold-mining firm’s shakedown of one of Central America’s poorest countries.