A new report argues where indigenous people's rights are expanded they protect community forests and help mitigate the amount of carbon dioxide released which affects climate change.
After a week of negotiations, Israel rejected on Friday a Gaza cease-fire proposal presented by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, according to Agence France-Press.
Four reporters, three of them Americans, working out of Iran were reportedly detained in Tehran on Tuesday but it is still unclear who took them and why.
The site believed to be the burial location of Jonah, who is known in Judeo-Christian and Islamic traditions as being swallowed by a whale before becoming a prophet for God, was reportedly desecrated after Islamic extremists planted explosives around the tomb.
New Yorkers, in the hundreds, held a late afternoon rally in Manhattan on Thursday to show solidarity with Palestinians, call a stop to the Israeli offensive in Gaza and an end to the seven year blockade.
The daughters of the late former Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez are still living in the presidential residence of La Casona in Caracas, despite there being a new president, Nicolás Maduro, in charge.
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton said that an AIDS-free generation is within current technology and society's reach in a speech at an international conference in Australia