Members of MAHKU live in a remote area of the Amazon and use ayahuasca, a hallucinogenic brew, to create paintings that ...

Colectivos — armed civilian groups with roots in guerrilla movements — insist they are educators and patriots. But in recent ...

More than 170 people have been released from Venezuela’s prisons under a new, highly publicized amnesty law. But that doesn’t cover everyone, including soldiers and exiled political leaders, in a sign ...

At a time when Indigenous people in the Brazilian rainforest face deforestation, land grabs and threats to survival, one group is finding international acclaim for its art. Members of MAHKU have had ...

As Iranians living in Turkey think about the unrest and uncertainty their loved ones face back home, they’ve been gathering in an increasing number of spaces carved out for them in Istanbul — places ...

This week, Cuban border patrol fired on a Florida-registered speedboat that entered Cuban territorial waters, killing four people and wounding others. Havana has blamed the US for allowing ...

Access to mental health care is out of reach for many Nigerians. That’s because the country has fewer than 300 psychiatrists serving a population of over 240 million. And what few there are, are ...

Izmir, Turkey, is running out of water. In the past few months, the city’s reservoir hit 1% full. But most Turks don’t seem to be getting the message. Water bans are done overnight and are barely ...

Dozens of humanitarian aid groups, including Doctors Without Borders and Oxfam, face expulsion from Gaza and the West Bank as soon as this weekend, unless they hand over detailed personal information ...

On Thursday night, Pakistan’s military fended off attacks by the Taliban along its border with Afghanistan in the latest outburst of tensions between the two neighbors. Also, Cuban border patrol fired ...

Songs of Stolen Children,” is a Ukrainian musical group that seeks to give voice to the roughly 20,000 children who Russia has abducted from occupied Ukrainian territories. The project is led by a ...

On Thursday night, Pakistan’s military fended off attacks by the Taliban along the border with Afghanistan. The country’s air force retaliated Friday morning, with targeted airstrikes in Kabul and ...