As many as 1 million people will party in a parade up New York's Fifth Avenue Sunday.
The Obama administration has cautioned U.S. bankers and foreign governments against rushing to invest in Iranian businesses.
A team of inspectors plans to check out prisons in Colorado to see if they're suitable for housing detainees.
An end to Colombia's 50-year civil war is within reach, but it's unclear how the government will compensate over 6 million people forced out of their homes.
As for the ongoing crisis in Syria, Maduro urged the U.N. to react, and said funding and weapons from the West have only brought death and destruction.
Diplomatic ties between the U.S. and Cuba progressed in July when President Barack Obama announced he would ease trade and travel restrictions, but Castro wants more.
Castro was expected to address the United States' embargo against his country at the United Nations.
U.S. President Barack Obama will use the Iranian nuclear deal as an example of successful diplomacy during his U.N. General Assembly speech Monday.
It will be the second meeting between the two leaders since they announced a detente after more than half a century of animosity between the former Cold War foes.
Nearing the end of his three-city tour of the United States, Pope Francis urged Americans to live up to their legacy.
The Cuban president says in a speech at the United Nations the recent warming of diplomatic ties between Washington and Havana is welcome, but not enough.
Immigration remains a hot topic in the U.S., but today's Congress has fewer immigrants than in years past.
With 35 new Wi-Fi hotspots added since July 2015, the Cubans are still not satisfied and wish for a cheaper access to more internet.
The rebel militia FARC and Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos have reportedly agreed to a landmark peace deal after decades of armed conflict.
Catholic Republican politicians are faced with the decision of either aligning with the leader of the Catholic Church or appealing to their far-right base.
During his visit in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, Pope Frances met with President Barack Obama.
U.S. companies got permission to offer Internet access to Cubans, but a bureaucratic Cuban government that still values censorship will make that challenging.
In his first speech on his U.S. visit, Xi Jinping defended China's crackdown on graft, the intervention in stock markets to prevent "panic," and pledged a more open economy.
The vote would mark the first time the U.S. has refrained from opposing an official U.N. condemnation of its 54-year-old embargo on Cuba.
Miriam Leiva and Martha Beatriz Roque each said they were stopped separately by state security agents before they could reach the cathedral.
“I think this shows that the Vatican wants to engage with Cuba rather than confront it."
A lot of enthusiasm and a little protest surrounds the pontiff during his historic visit to the Caribbean island country.