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Known as the father of Indian independence, his concept of nonviolent resistance to fight injustice has inspired political movements around the world.

Gabriela Mistral, the first Latin American to win a Nobel Prize for literature, was long considered staid. A new generation is reclaiming her as an anti-establishment icon.

She experienced the inequities of the job firsthand in South Africa and helped build national and international unions to address them.

Brazilian police officials accused an illegal fishing trafficker of ordering an assassination in June that left a British journalist and a Brazilian activist dead deep in the Amazon.

Genaro García Luna is accused of helping traffickers move drugs to the United States. But his defense says he is being targeted by the men he helped to send to prison.

Brazilian police officials accused an illegal fishing trafficker of ordering an assassination in June that left a British journalist and Brazilian activist dead deep in the Amazon.

A gunman killed 10 people at a dance studio.

The verdict was a rare legal victory for Ms. Ressa, founder of the news site Rappler, who has been under pressure from the Philippine authorities for years.

Matteo Messina Denaro, who was sentenced in absentia for the 1992 murders of two prosecutors and other crimes, was apprehended at a Sicilian hospital.