world

Brazil’s Dilma Rousseff re-elected in close vote

October 27, 2014 By Emile Schepers

Rousseff won most of Brazil's 26 states including Minas Gerais, Neves' home state where she was the governor from 2003 to 2010.

Germany continues along austerity track

October 23, 2014 By Victor Grossman

Tragic when it doesn't occur to an economics minister that needed investments in infrastructure and education could be made if only taxes on the upper class were increased.

Why the U.S. concealed its chemical weapons role in Iraq

October 20, 2014 By Susan Webb

From 2004 to 2011, the Pentagon covered up injuries to U.S. troops in Iraq from chemical weaponry supplied to Saddam Hussein in the 80s by the U.S. and other countries.

Organizers in Colombia’s flower industry: These roses have thorns!

October 16, 2014 By Howard Kling

For workers in Colombia, providing bouquets for vases has meant increasing hours with falling pay, growing health problems, and human rights violations.

Female Nobel winners are rare: One was a British communist

October 16, 2014 By Peter Frost

Malala Yousafzai, the 17-year-old Pakistani female education activist, shot but never silenced by the Taliban, became the youngest ever Nobel Peace Prize recipient.