Marianne McCune

For a New York-based group using a crowd-sourcing program to monitor the Presidential election in the West African nation of Guinea, the last couple of weeks have been wrenching. First, a seemingly smooth run-off election turned violent. Then, last week, Alliance Guinea’s main source of information -- texts from Guineans on the ground -- was cut off.

Good friends take care of each other. So, this fall, Lower East Side poet Fay Chiang took on a fellow poet’s woes. Patricia Spears Jones had spent two years out of a job, her unemployment checks had run out, and Chiang said she was worrying out loud that she couldn’t make rent. So Chiang got an idea: “Oh! We can do a rent party!” she told Jones.

The New York based group that monitored Guinea's historic election via text messages from voters is now monitoring outbreaks of violence between members of the West African nation's opposing parties. On Monday, the Electoral Commission announced a winner in the close Presidential run-off, and members of the losing party are dissatisfied with the count.

In the West African nation of Guinea, officials are still counting ballots in a very close run-off election for President. And here in New York, a group of international volunteers ca...

While Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's statements may trouble American leaders, his stand against what he sees as American imperialism attracts supporters. Some Iranians in th...

With the United States deporting more immigrants than ever before -- almost 400,000 over the past year -- some of New York's elected officials and immigrant advocates are trying hard to draw attention to cases that, to them, seem blatantly unjust.

The President and Prime Minister of Haiti are asking for aid, but also for investment. Both spoke on the last day of the Clinton Global Initiative, former President Clinton’s yearly effort to get business leaders involved in solving world problems.

Empowering women and girls is among major threads at this week's Clinton Global Initiative, the yearly conference designed to bring together people with ideas and people with money and power.

As world leaders descend on New York for the annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, activists and advocates arrive, too, hoping to grab the attention of world leaders -- and the media -- so they can take part in the global conversation.

It comes around once a year -- the week when New York really does become the center of the world and representatives from 192 countries convene at the United Nations.

The men and women who knock on illegal immigrants’ doors and take them away in handcuffs are members of what are called fugitive operations teams. They often meet up before dawn in some dim parking lot near the homes of the immigrants they're looking for.

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The El Diario newspaper columnist accused of collaborating with a ring of Russian spies was granted bail in a Manhattan federal courthouse yesterday evening. That’s despite the fact that another suspect in the alleged spy ring disappeared after a judge from the island of Cyprus ...

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Among Russian immigrants in New York, reaction to the arrest of 11 alleged Russian spies varies.

The editorial staff at the weekly newspaper V Novom Svete say they're waiting for more information before taking a strong editorial stance. General Manager Helen Brusilovsky says most of her ...

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Colleagues and followers of columnist Vicky Peláez continue to express disbelief that she’s one of 11 alleged Russian spies arrested earlier this week. Peláez is scheduled to appear in federal court tomorrow for a bail hearing. Many of her friends and acquaintances say she's a ...

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Disbelief -- that's what's being expressed by family members and colleagues of newspaper columnist Vicky Pelaez, who, with her husband and 8 others, were arrested yesterday and accused of spying for Russia. Waldomar Mariscal, the 38 year old son of Pelaez and Juan Lazaro, told ...