The U.S. ambassador in Honduras says five former Honduran police officers have turned themselves over to U.S. authorities to face drug-trafficking charges.
Mexico's National Human Rights Commission says a classmate of 43 college students who disappeared in 2014 had been tortured before his body was found the following day.
The United Nations will take two days to focus on how to best ensure human rights in the face of rising terrorism, populism, state repression and other abuses of power, the president of the General Assembly said Monday.
Mexico's federal government says it will file challenges with the country's Supreme Court against laws enacted in two states that purport to be anti-corruption, but that critics say could protect their outgoing governors.
Human rights activists have presented a criminal complaint in Chile for the alleged disappearance of some 100 political prisoners that were reportedly kept at an enclave of German immigrants called Colonia Dignidad during the country's 1973-1990 military dictatorship.
The family of a Toronto student who was detained after surviving a bloody hostage-taking in Bangladesh said Monday that they haven't been able to contact him for a week and are concerned about his well-being.
Cuba has quietly opened a first-of-its-kind store specializing in bulk goods in Havana: Zona +, a high-ceiling space with racks stacked with large tins of tomato sauce, toilet paper and cooking oil by the gallon.
The Portuguese party had just begun when a message briefly flickered on the Stade de France big screen: "Merci pour tout, Michel." It wasn't clear what the absent Michel Platini was being thanked for at the end of the European Championship on Sunday.
Iran announced indictments Monday against four people including an American with dual citizenship and a U.S. permanent resident, prompting a rebuke from the State Department.
French President Francois Hollande has assured his visiting South African counterpart Jacob Zuma that the British vote to leave the European Union won't affect economic relations between the EU and his country.
The United States on Monday announced it would evacuate all non-essential staff from South Sudan as a fifth day of explosions and gun battles in the capital city of Juba raises the specter of a return to civil war.
The foreign minister of the United Arab Emirates says his country is committed to continue its support of Yemen's internationally recognized government of President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi.
Iran aggressively pursued biological and chemical weapons technology even as it negotiated an international deal to drop its nuclear program, according to a German intelligence report.
Eight soldiers were killed when a suicide car bomb targeted a Somalia military training camp and attackers then entered the base on foot, the military said Monday.
A lawyer for Algerian journalist Mohamed Tamalt says his client has been sentenced to two years in prison and a 200,000 dinar ($1,800) fine for insulting President Abdelaziz Bouteflika.