During a global celebration of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, Costa Rican officials announce a 50 percent drop in femicide cases.
Each year on the last Sunday in November, oxcart drivers from across the country descend on San José to keep one of the country’s most vivid traditions alive.
Jobs. An end to corruption. A functional government. Reducing an astronomical murder rate. Hondurans have loaded a long wish list onto Sunday's elections.
Hundreds of people attended Costa Rica’s second Slut Walk last Friday night in downtown San José. The event was organized to denounce recent statements on rape by Accessibility Without Exclusion Party presidential candidate Óscar López.
The National Security Agency is facing scrutiny in the U.S. Congress and abroad over revelations that it spied on foreign leaders, broke into fiber-optic cables overseas and gathered emails and phone records of innocent people.
Heavily guarded polling stations, to which some 800 foreign election monitors were dispatched, closed at 5 p.m. local time after a one-hour extension. Now, post-vote maneuvering begins.
