A wave of historic protests struck the retail giant Wal-Mart on Black Friday — the busiest shopping day of the year. Workers and their supporters demonstrated at more than 1,000 stores. The Wal-Mart protests were organized in part by OUR Walmart, an organization backed by the United Food & Commercial Workers International Union.
Read MoreThe Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) will resume peace talks today at Havana’s Convention Center following a short break after three days of work.
Read MoreThe Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) has declared a unilateral ceasefire to go in affect between November 20 and January 20.
Read MoreThe Israeli bombardment of Gaza has entered its eighth day with the Palestinian death toll now topping 139. More than 1,200 people have been injured. Earlier today, 21 people were injured in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv when a bomb exploded aboard a crowded bus.
Read MoreCuban First Vice President Jose Ramon Machado Ventura received the Syrian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants, Fayssal Mekdad, on Tuesday, Mekdad traveled to Havana as a special envoy of Bashar Al-Assad to deliver a message from the Syrian president to Raul Castro.
Read MoreThe Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the government of that country held a third day of policy dialogue today at the Havana Convention Center, where they focused on agricultural development in that South American nation.
Read MoreOver the past week, Israeli strikes have killed at least 116 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the majority of them civilians, including 27 children. Monday’s victims included four members of the same family — two parents and their two toddlers — who were killed in a bombing of a Gaza refugee camp that also left more than a dozen people injured, mostly women and children.
Read MoreRichard Falk, the United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories, calls on the international community to help defend the people of Gaza from the ongoing U.S.-backed Israeli assault.
Read MoreDrawing on archival findings and recently declassified documents, the filmmakers critically examine U.S. history, from the atomic bombing of Japan to the Cold War, to the fall of communism, and continuing all the way through to the Obama administration.
Read MoreAt least 28 Palestinians, among them children were killed this week by Israeli attacks targeting the Gaza Strip this week While Egypt sends its Prime Minter to the coastal region to mediate a truce. These stories and more follow.
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