The death toll from three days of fighting in Bangui, capital of the Central Africa Republic, stands at 35 with 65 injured, announced the Red Cross today. The fresh violence comes following a recent inauguration of a new head of state, Catherine Samba-Panza, a posting meant to quell a savage conflict in the country that has left over 2,000 dead.

The majority of students enrolled in degree programs juggle schoolwork with jobs and family commitments, but colleges do little to support part-time study.

The US announced that Russia has violated a 1987 treaty explicitly banning the testing of medium-range missiles. According to US officials, Russia has been testing a new ground-launched, cruise missile since as early as 2008. But this isn’t just a technical dispute about a missile treaty; it’s a signal of a possible shipwreck of the White House foreign policy.

With most reporting on Mexico focused on illegal immigration, poverty and the drug wars, it’s not hard to see why so many Americans view Mexico as the archetypical annoying neighbor. But it actually has a bright future ahead, thanks to the success of President Peña Nieto’s economic reforms.

Let’s call a spade a spade: Germany’s Energiewende is an unmitigated policy disaster. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) reported this morning that one in three workers in Germany’s solar industry lost their job last year.

It may have looked like Francois Hollande’s affair was good for his political fortunes. The bump in polls was real, but it speaks to a deep and thoroughgoing malaise that’s gripping France’s body politic.

While al-Qaeda and its affiliated groups still pose a serious threat to Americans, Islamic militant organizations once thought to be restricted purely to local infighting are adopting an increasingly international kill list, with or without assistance from Bin Laden’s former network.

Public and private union membership numbers are trading places, according to a report by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. But America’s labor unions have still not figured out how to make themselves relevant to workers in the private economy.

Six Egyptian embassy employees are kidnapped and released in Tripoli as the fallout from the Libyan misadventure spreads out this weekend.

Ecuadorian airlines company Tame has suspended flights to Venezuela, finally putting its foot down over a number of unpaid plane tickets. It’s not a very Bolivarian thing for Quito to do.