2+ hour, 51+ min ago  (667+ words) BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- Cervantes and Borges. Tortilla and asado. Flamenco and tango. Argentines and Spaniards have long been united by blood ties and a relationship of mutual admiration, but the World Cup final between these two Spanish-speaking nations has placed…...

1+ week, 2+ hour ago  (891+ words) SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- A nearly 10-year battle for gay rights in Trinidad and Tobago is in the hands of a final appeals court in England. Supreme Court judges in London held a hearing Wednesday on a landmark human rights…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (433+ words) MBABANE, Eswatini -- The southern African kingdom of Eswatini has accepted a fourth group of people deported from the United States under a bilateral agreement to host third-country nationals, with 11 people arriving this week, the government said Thursday. Acting government spokesperson…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (589+ words) JOHANNESBURG -- Thousands of demonstrators gathered in parts of South Africa to rally against illegal immigration on Tuesday in the biggest migration-related protests since anti-migrant violence broke out in the country in 2008. The demonstrations come after some protest groups set what…...

3+ week, 2+ hour ago  (827+ words) CULIACAN, Mexico -- Much of Mexico has been celebrating the World Cup with joyful outdoor gatherings, filling streets, plazas and fan zones in the country's three host cities -- Mexico City, Guadalajara and Monterrey -- since the tournament kickoff on June 11. But in…...

4+ week, 1+ hour ago  (516+ words) JOHANNESBURG -- South Africa started building a second temporary deportation center on Thursday to process the repatriation of Malawians after thousands protested earlier this year in Johannesburg and other parts of the country against illegal immigration that has fueled tensions between…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (495+ words) CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- South Africa's president promised Sunday to act on what he called concerns over illegal migration following a rise in anti-immigrant protests and sentiment in Africa's most advanced economy, with other nations claiming their citizens have been…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (309+ words) Although prisoners face dangerously harsh conditions while working the "farm line" at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola -- including laboring outdoors in extreme heat -- a federal judge presiding over a long-running suit filed by prisoners forced to work in the…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (430+ words) JOHANNESBURG -- The South African government and advocacy groups for the country's Afrikaner white minority on Wednesday rejected the Trump administration's position that there's a humanitarian emergency affecting white people in South Africa. The argument served as the administration's rationale for…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (429+ words) WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration said Tuesday that it will admit an additional 10,000 white South Africans into the U.S. as refugees this year, increasing its historically low annual cap but still blocking people from other countries from entering through the program. Trump…...