Article 19 says for past five to seven years global trend has been very negative; in many places, journalists themselves increasingly coming under attack

Under the proposal, Mexican authorities would not prosecute people found to be carrying small amounts of drugs if they submitted to a treatment program.

The police have recovered a missing truck used by safe-sex advocates to distribute condoms, but the thieves made off with 5,000 prophylactics.

There is a growing nervousness that once again Latin America cannot escape the globalized connections in the financial sector that run through the United States.

The Ontario government said Wednesday that it would compensate several people wrongfully convicted of having murdered children.