Songbirds fly thousands of miles to return to the northern hemisphere every spring, just as regularly as the sun comes up every morning.

Manuela Omari Ima, a Waorani woman from the Ecuadorian Amazon, was born in the Yasuni National Park, a 2.5 million acre primary tropical rainforest at the intersection of the Andes, the Amazon and the Equator.

New York: If you walk through London’s High Gate cemetery and wander over to the grave of the late Karl Marx and then listen closely with your ear to the ground, you might hear a repetitive murmur of the phrase “I told you so” in a distinctly German inflected accent.

Uribe Diverting Attention From Humanitarian Accord, Targetting Venezuela

The morning broke in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo today with the sounds of gunfire as FARDC government forces fought with rebel troops in Kivu Province.

On Sunday December 2, Venezuelans will return to the voting booths to ratify or reject two slates of constitutional reforms, 33 of which have been proposed by President Hugo Chávez and 36 additional reforms made by the National Assembly.

As you might have noticed we have recently revamped our website. In past weeks we have been working overtime make sure our system is working on all accounts, and fixing any bugs we come across. If you notice any problems please let us know (contact@coanews.org).

UNITED NATIONS, (IPS) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon took the industrialised countries to task here Monday for their failure to take drastic actions against climate change.

Today’s human rights report from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) was a non sequitur. How can a report detailing the fact that a FARDC (Regular Congolese Army) soldier allegedly raped and then chopped a Hutu woman to death along with her three-month-old baby be termed a chronicle of “human rights?”