Ecuadorean authorities say members of an indigenous group clashed with police while trying to overrun a Chinese-owned mining camp in the country's south, leaving 14 officers injured, one of them critically.
One after another, fighter jets catapult from the flight deck of the USS Eisenhower, a thousand-foot (305-meter) American aircraft carrier, afterburners glowing amber above the blue Persian Gulf, on their way northwest to join the fight in Iraq and Syria against the Islamic State.
More than 1,000 public workers protested in front of Rio de Janeiro's state legislature Tuesday as lawmakers prepared to vote on steep austerity measures that many fear could exacerbate a deteriorating security situation and cause myriad other problems.
The leader of the breakaway Turkish side says he's hopeful a deal reunifying ethnically divided Cyprus can still be achieved this year, despite a failure to agree on how much territory Greek and Turkish Cypriots will control in an envisioned federation.
Colombian officials met Tuesday with leftist rebels to plan their next move after former President Alvaro Uribe refused to support a modified peace deal that the government hopes to sign in the coming hours.
For months, residents of the Iraqi town of Qayara have lived under a dark cloud of toxic fumes released by oil well fires lit by retreating Islamic State fighters.
Cheeky North Korea has sent a nine-page letter to the U.S. demanding it stops the ‘hostile nuclear threats’ towards the rogue state and its despotic leader.
Canada's defense minister says the country is looking at buying 18 Boeing Super Hornet jet fighters on an interim basis and will hold an open competition to buy more planes in the months ahead.
The international chemical weapons watchdog says Russia has offered to provide samples linked to alleged chemical weapon use in the Syrian city of Aleppo.
An international aid group has warned of the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Yemen's western city of Taiz, saying that corpses litter the streets and civilians are trapped.
Authorities in the Dominican Republic say they are investigating a group of Texas Rangers prospects who reportedly posted an image on social media showing a sexual assault on an underage teammate.
Estonia's head of state has appointed a new center-left government that pledges to keep the NATO member's foreign and security policy unchanged amid allegations that a key coalition member has links to Russia.
A Canadian man involved in an alleged plot to commit mass-murder at a mall on Canada's Atlantic coast has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit murder.