Guatemala soldiers sentenced to 6,060 years for 1982 massacre

(Reuters) – Guatemala on Tuesday sentenced four soldiers to 6,060 years of prison each, in the first conviction for a massacre during the country’s brutal 36-year civil war.

U.S.: 29,000 Somali kids have died in last 90 days

(CBS/AP) NAIROBI, Kenya – A U.S. official says the famine in Somalia has killed more than 29,000 children under the age of 5.

Chavez: Boy from the grasslands

As a boy, Chavez lived in a mud hut with no running water or indoor bathroom.

The great Hiroshima cover-up

In the weeks following the atomic attacks on Japan sixty-six years ago this week, and then for decades afterward, the United States engaged in airtight suppression of all film shot in Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the bombings. This included vivid color footage shot by U.S. military crews and black-and-white Japanese newsreel film.

The coming Palestinian statehood

As violent protests rock the Arab world, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Israeli government has tried to keep a low profile. It has largely succeeded. That’s about to change.