Race Relations / Ethnic Issues

By Bill Barreto GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Residents of a Mayan community in Guatemala prevented experts on Tuesday from beginning...

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand said on Wednesday it will put a virtual halt to the practice of taking at-risk...

GENEVA (Reuters) - A 3.5-metre (11.5 ft)-tall puppet depicting a Syrian refugee girl arrived in Geneva on Tuesday as part...

By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -United Nations aid chief Martin Griffiths said on Tuesday he assumes famine has taken...

WARSAW (Reuters) -Poland's President Andrzej Duda said on Tuesday he would request the extension of a state of emergency along...

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's defence purchases from Russia have alarmed Ankara's NATO partners but the two countries remain rivals in...

By Orhan Coskun and Tuvan Gumrukcu ANKARA (Reuters) - The presidents of Russia and Turkey will hold talks on Wednesday...

PARIS (Reuters) -France will slash the number of visas available to nationals from Maghreb countries because of their governments' refusal...

ROME (Reuters) - Hundreds of migrants have arrived by boat in the southern Italian island of Lampedusa, the interior ministry...

By Sofia Menchu and Enrique Garcia GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Guatemalan authorities will begin efforts on Tuesday to recover the...

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Venezuelan migrants in Iquique in northern Chile have been shaken by a series of angry protests by...

PARIS (Reuters) - French far-right leader Marine Le Pen said on Monday that if she is elected president in the...

By Steve Scherer OTTAWA (Reuters) - Annamie Paul announced her resignation as head of Canada's Green Party on Monday after...

(Refiles to identify Bystrianin as head of Ocalenie Foundation in paragraph 11) WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland's interior minister said on...

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Greenland's Prime Minister Mute Egede stripped an outspoken pro-independence minister of his responsibility for foreign affairs on...

KYIV (Reuters) - Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko warned on Monday of a joint response with Russia to military exercises involving...

ROME (Reuters) - The social media guru for Italy's Matteo Salvini said on Monday he had quit his post, key...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's government said on Sunday that it will resume flights to Port-au-Prince starting next week for...

By Tilman Blasshofer BERLIN (Reuters) - Leaders of Alternative for Germany (AfD) put on a brave face after projected election...

ROME (Reuters) - Italian Foreign Affairs Minister Luigi Di Maio said on Sunday that the Taliban government in Afghanistan could...