Chicago mayor signs order to resist possible Trump troop deployment | Donald Trump News

The mayor of Chicago has signed an executive order seeking to protect residents against a possible decision by United States President Donald Trump’s administration to deploy federal troops to the city. Mayor... Read more »

Crisis in Argentina’s Armed Forces as poor salaries lead to exodus

Argentina’s economic crisis shows no sign of slowing and wages across much of the national economy remain below any acceptable standard of consumption. This has triggered a crisis of major proportions within... Read more »

South Korean president holds first summit with Trump

South Korean President Lee Jae-myung held a summit with US President Donald Trump in Washington on August 25. During the first in-person meeting between the two since Lee took office in June,... Read more »

Funerals begin for 233 killed in Brazil blaze

SANTA MARIA, Brazil – The bodies of the young college students were found piled up just inside the entrance of the Kiss nightclub, among more than 230 people who died in a... Read more »

Untapped lithium riches are in crosshairs of Bolivian candidate

The man vying to become Bolivia’s first elected right-wing president in two decades is promising to kick-start exploitation of the world’s joint-biggest lithium deposits after more than a decade of false starts.... Read more »

Mexicans protest tourists and gentrification

Will GrantBBC Mexico correspondent, Mexico City Getty Images The protesters say locals are being priced out of central Mexico City The timing of the first of several recent anti-gentrification protests in Mexico... Read more »

Kashmir’s top cleric was a fiery freedom advocate. Now he preaches patience | Politics

Srinagar, India-administered Kashmir – On a sunlit June Friday in Srinagar’s Old City, the Jamia Masjid stands as it always has, ornate and imposing. Its 14th-century wooden pillars have been witnesses to... Read more »

Stories that caught our eye: August 22 to 29

  ANDIS SCANDAL BOILS ON The scandal beginning on August 19, a day before the government fired Diego Spagnuolo, the head of ANDIS agency for the disabled, which was placed under trusteeship,... Read more »

Carney’s European tour deepens Canada’s war drive and sets the stage for austerity at home

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s whirlwind tour over the last week with stops in Kiev, Warsaw, Berlin and Riga, Latvia, confirms that the new Liberal government intends to deepen Canadian imperialism’s economic and... Read more »

US appeals court rules Trump’s foreign tariff campaign is largely illegal | Donald Trump News

A United States appeals court has declared President Donald Trump’s blanket tariff policy illegal, but it stopped short of pausing the wide-ranging import taxes altogether. On Friday, the Court of Appeals for... Read more »