UN agency praises Cuba’s food security program
Under-nutrition afflicts fewer than five percent of Cubans. And Cuba has helped reduce the number of the world's hungry by half as of 2015.
Today in history: 800th birthday of the Magna Carta
On this date in 1215, humanity took one of its greatest steps in the long march toward democracy.
Changing captains in Germany’s Left Party
The Left Party is the only opposition force with any real clout in Germany, so a gathering with representatives of its 60,000 members was important enough.
Dark plots in the Middle East?
A quiet meeting this past March in Saudi Arabia, and a recent anonymous leak from the Israeli military, set the stage for what may be a new and wider war in the Middle East.
A hot weekend and a chilly G7 summit
Top leaders of seven nations at the G7 Summit discuss "the global economy as well as... foreign, security and development policy."
Enforcement not the answer to Europe’s immigration problems
International law guarantees the right to seek asylum; seizing boats and mass detentions are violations of this right.
Massive anti-austerity march as Portugal prepares for national elections
The red hammer-and-sickle banners of the Portuguese Communist Party and the green flags of the Green Ecological Party filled the streets of Lisbon.
Venezuela: two in custody in murder of Bolivarian legislator
Last year, Robert Serra was murdered in his apartment in Caracas, along with Maria Herrera, his companion and political helper.
TPP’s evil twin advances in European Parliament
The legislative arm of the European Union approved a position statement backing, with modifications, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.
Today in history: Good sex with Dr. Ruth
Today is the birthday of Dr. Ruth Westheimer, born (as Karola Ruth Siegel) in 1928 in Wiesenfeld, Germany.
