political activism

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration has a vision for Syrian leader Bashar Assad's departure. Even if it works, the president won't be around to...

BURNS, Ore. (AP) — A pickup truck blocked the entrance Tuesday to a national wildlife preserve where a small armed group upset over federal land polic...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel on Sunday charged two Jewish extremists in an arson attack that killed a Palestinian toddler and his parents last July — culmi...

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian government forces booby trapped a cluster of farm buildings in the southern Daraa province and detonated the explosives as severa...

BEIRUT (AP) — The three missiles fired on a public market in the northern Syrian town of Ariha took the morning shoppers by surprise. In a few moments...

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Human rights advocates and the United States called for an investigation following the Nigerian army's raid on a Shiite sect in ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — A Jamaican gay rights activist has brought a rare legal challenge to the Caribbean island's anti-sodomy laws that criminalize...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — John Trudell, who was a spokesman for American Indian protesters during their 1969 occupation of Alcatraz Island and later headed t...

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peruvians still largely resent Lori Berenson for conspiring with the nation's No. 2 leftist rebel group in the 1990s, and she and he...

LIMA, Peru (AP) — American activist Lori Berenson is finally heading home to New York, two decades after being found guilty of aiding leftist rebels i...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Gambia's president advocated banning female genital mutilation, giving hope to human rights activists who are urging Gambia to a...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Community members and activists demanded Monday that Minneapolis police identify an officer who shot a black man suspected in an as...

CAIRO (AP) — The criticism was blunt — and startling, since it came from a TV presenter on a state-owned station that, like most other media in Egypt,...

RABAT, Morocco (AP) — A former prisoner at Guantanamo Bay has been held for more than six weeks without formal charges in Morocco despite what his law...

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt has unlawfully prevented "scores" of people from leaving the country over the past year, U.S. based-Human Rights Watch said in a ne...

BEIRUT (AP) — The Islamic State group killed three of its captives in Syria's ancient city of Palmyra by tying them to Roman-era columns at the site, ...

HOUSTON (AP) — After a drawn-out showdown between Houston's popular lesbian mayor and a coalition of conservative pastors, voters in the nation's four...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska suicide-prevention activist is hoping a man's very public suicide at an Alaska Native conference will propel people...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The ubiquitous handicapped symbol that marks parking spaces, building entrances and restrooms around the world is getting an up...

BALTIMORE (AP) — The latest on protests by the Baltimore Uprising coalition, which occupied City Council chambers at Baltimore City Hall to protest a ...