MEXICO, Jan 13 2025 (IPS) - The case of a man arrested in Texas, in the south of the United States, for shipping arms parts to Mexico immediately caught the attention of authorities in both countries.

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The debt disaster is back. Indeed, the aid agency Cafod reports that developing countries today face “the most acute debt crisis in history”. At least 54 countries are in a debt crisis – more than ...

Former American President Jimmy Carter was a man of peace and principles. He presided over a tumultuous period in American ...

Richard Bennett was appointed as the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan in April 2022. He has ...

Colombia has just marked a historic milestone in the global campaign against child marriage, with the Senate passing one of Latin America and the Caribbean’s most comprehensive bans on child marriage ...

Ojajuni Olufunsho, a resident of Ayetoro, a town along the Atlantic coast in southwestern Nigeria, saw her home swept away by ...