Americas
USA
US House votes to sue Obama for over-reaching his powers
A sharply divided House of Representatives approved a Republican plan Wednesday to launch a lawsuit against President Barack Obama for exceeding the bounds of his constitutional au...
ARGENTINA
Argentina fails to reach deal with creditors
Talks aimed at averting Argentina’s second default in 13 years ended in failure Wednesday as the South American country said it could not accept a deal with US hedge fund creditors...
VENEZUELA
Venezuela: Hugo Chavez’s ‘little bird’ strikes again
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro continues to “communicate” with his late predecessor via the animal kingdom.
ARGENTINA
Argentina in last-ditch effort to avert default
Argentina's government said Monday it will make another effort to reach a deal with U.S. creditors ahead of a looming deadline that risks sending the country into its second d...
USA
Botched Arizona execution takes nearly two hours
Arizona inmate Joseph Wood reportedly gasped over 600 times before succumbing to a lethal injection on Wednesday, adding yet another flawed execution to a recent series that has ra...
USA
US courts issue conflicting reports on Obamacare
Two US federal courts issued conflicting rulings on Tuesday on whether the government could subsidize health insurance premiums for the millions of Americans that use the federal i...
United States
Smoker's widow awarded $23 bn in punitive damages in Florida
A Florida jury has awarded the widow of a chain smoker who died of lung cancer punitive damages of more than 23 billion dollars in her lawsuit against the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Com...
UNITED NATIONS
AIDS deaths down by a third in past decade, says UN
AIDS-related deaths and the number of new HIV infections have fallen by more than a third in the past decade, a UN report showed on Wednesday, giving hope to the goal that the dise...
USA
Prominent undocumented journalist freed after US border detention
Pulitzer-prize winning journalist and activist Jose Antonio Vargas, who revealed in a 2011 New York Times Magazine article that he is an undocumented immigrant, was freed by US bor...
USA
Boules and booze: Bastille Day à la New Yorkaise
The smell of scorched sugar and anise liquor floated through upper Manhattan on Sunday as Francophiles from across the city headed to 60th Street to seek out chocolate crêpes and i...
RUSSIA - CUBA
Putin revives old Cuban flame and eyes Latin American minerals
Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the Soviet Union's Cold War ally Cuba on Friday, launching a tour that will see him cozy up to Latin America amid newly frayed relatio...
BRAZIL
Manhunt as FIFA partner flees Rio hotel to avoid arrest
Brazilian police launched a manhunt on Thursday for an executive of a FIFA partner company handling World Cup ticket packages after he escaped from his Rio de Janeiro hotel to avoi...
USA
Obama in Texas to urge congressional action on child migrant crisis
Barack Obama met with Texas Governor Rick Perry in Dallas on Wednesday to discuss the critical influx of unaccompanied children from Central America across the US border.
BRAZIL
FIFA partner arrested over World Cup tickets scam
Brazilian police on Monday arrested a British executive of the Swiss-based FIFA partner company handling World Cup ticket packages, accusing him of leading a network that illegally...
USA
