As crisis builds, Ukrainians face May 25 election
This election is largely a contest of powerful business tycoons who made their fortunes out of the breakup of the old Soviet Union and the privatization of state enterprises that followed.
Activists push for release of jailed trade unionist Shahrokh Zamani
He was arrested in June 2011 and sentenced to 11 years in prison on charges widely levelled against trade unionists.
Rwanda: the long descent to genocide
Rwanda was almost exclusively seen in terms of a grand narrative of African catastrophe.
Venezuela crisis is different this time, mostly
Opponents of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's socialist-inclined government have been in the streets and causing disturbances since earlier February.
Continental drift: a slew of European breakaways
The U.S. and its allies may rail against the referendum in the Crimea; Scots will consider a very similar one on September 18, and Catalans would like to do the same.
Open letter urges Congress to get all the facts on Venezuela
Celebrities, activists, academics and lawyers issued an open letter, Mar. 28, to Congress urging members to oppose any sanctions on Venezuela and to get all the facts on the situation there.
U.S. secretly built "Cuban Twitter" to stir unrest
The U.S. built a communications network designed to undermine the communist government in Cuba, built with secret shell companies and financed through foreign banks.
Unions, small farmers mobilize in Paraguay under U.S. eye
Paraguayan labor federations and small farmer organizations launched a general strike on March 26. Some 90 percent of workers in Asuncion honored the strike.
Many in Germany see through NATO designs on Ukraine
The crisis in the Ukraine continues to be big news here in Germany, on front pages and screens.
Cuban doctors attend to Brazil's underserved
The 400 Cuban doctors are part of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff's "More Doctors" program joined, by several hundred physicians from Uruguay, Argentina, Spain, and Portugal and 1096 from Brazil itself.
