October 15, 2016 Ahead of Syria talks, Kerry visits Rwanda genocide memorial There are no names, no stories on the embankment where a quarter-million Rwandans are buried in a mass grave, memorialized by a simple word: "Remembrance." But as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday bowed his head at the Kigali memorial for victims of this African nation's 1994 genocide, it was impossible not to juxtapose the many declarations of "Never Again" with the reality of mass killings persisting to this day, sometimes unpunished and undeterred by the United States.
October 15, 2016 Mexico's Zapatista rebels to field a presidential candidate Mexico's Zapatista National Liberation Army says it will choose an indigenous woman as its independent candidate for the country's 2018 presidential election.
October 15, 2016 Hundreds in Warsaw protest free-trade deals with US, Canada Hundreds of people in the Polish capital are protesting against free-trade agreements the European Union is pursuing with the U.S. and Canada, TTIP and CETA, saying they will hurt Polish farmers and consumers.
October 15, 2016 Russian, Western media offer different images of Aleppo While Western media are filled with grim images of life in areas of Aleppo under siege by Russian-backed Syrian government forces, Russian news reports tell a very different story.
October 15, 2016 The Latest: Security tight at India beach resort for BRICS The Latest on the BRICS summit of five emerging market economies (all times local): 2 p.m.
October 15, 2016 AP Explains: What the new global climate agreement means tExperts say cutting hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, is the fastest way to reduce global warming.
October 15, 2016 Security tight at Indian beach resort for BRICS summit India's beach resort state of Goa has been turned into a high security zone with thousands of paramilitary troops, coast guards and police guarding venues where the leaders of five emerging market economies are meeting over the weekend.
October 15, 2016 Pope's Jesuit order elects its 1st Latin American leader The Jesuits have elected their first-ever Latin American leader, following in the footsteps of the cardinals who elected the Jesuit Pope Francis as history's first Latin American pope.
October 15, 2016 Israeli rights group urges UN to end Palestinian occupation An Israeli human rights group is urging the U.N.