(Reuters) – For the millions of Muslims set to start the annual haj pilgrimage in Mecca on Tuesday, the challenge of reaching the city where Islam...
KABUL, Afghanistan (New York Times) — In his last phone call home, Lance Cpl. Gregory Buckley Jr. told his father what was troubling him: From his...
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (Mail & Guardian Africa) – The country’s New Year was only marked on September 12, and it is already turning out to be a good...
By LYNSEY CHUTEL, Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Mozambique has been declared free of land mines after 22 years of demining, an international humanitarian organization said....
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — West African mediators late Saturday hinted at a breakthrough in Burkina Faso’s political crisis after a military coup brought a general...
[POLITICO] The White House announced Friday that it is relaxing additional restrictions on Cuba regarding travel, commerce and investment, stemming from President Barack Obama’s call...
(Politico) – The White House announced Friday that it is relaxing additional restrictions on Cuba regarding travel, commerce and investment, stemming from President Barack Obama’s call...
Brahima Ouedraogo and Baba Ahmed, ASSOCIATED PRESS OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Burkina’s military seized the airwaves and installed a general loyal to the ex-president...
Denis Dumo, REUTERS JUBA, South Sudan (Reuters) – More than 100 people were killed in South Sudan when an oil truck exploded as a...
Heather Horn, THE ATLANTIC BERLIN (The Atlantic) – It’s early yet, but in the past few weeks, Germany and its chancellor, Angela Merkel, have...
(AFP.com) – Some prominent South Africans have dismissed the discovery of a new human ancestor as a racist theory designed to cast Africans as “subhuman,”...
HIPPOLYTE MARBOUA, Associated Press BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — A civilian staff member with the United Nations mission in Central African Republic is alleged to...
(BBC) – Russia and Angola have opposed moves at the UN Security Council to impose sanctions on a South Sudan general and a rebel commander, diplomats...
Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenyan police have carried out extra-judicial killings, torture and forced disappearances of suspected extremists, according to allegations in a new...
ISIDORE KOUADIO, Associated Press ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — An opposition coalition on Tuesday accused Ivory Coast’s government of detaining 16 of its supporters for participating...
EDWIN MOKI KINDZEKA, Associated Press YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) — Officials in Cameroon’s north on Monday praised a local self-defense group for confronting Boko Haram militants during...
(BBC) – A UK-funded memorial to Kenyans killed and tortured by British forces during the Mau Mau uprising in the 1950s has been unveiled in the...
IAN DEITCH, Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police clashed with Palestinian protesters on Tuesday in a third straight day of unrest at Jerusalem’s most sensitive...
(Business Standard) – French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo has been criticised for publishing a cartoon depicting the death of three-year-old Syrian toddler Aylan Kurdi as its...
Thomas M. Kostigen, USA TODAY (USA Today) — Poorer nations suffering from extreme weather disasters, so much so that their citizens are seeking refugee...
ELOGE WILLY KANEZA, Associated Press BUJUMBURA, Burundi (AP) — Burundi’s army chief survived an apparent assassination attempt Friday by gunmen who attacked a convoy escorting him...
BRIAN ROHAN, Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — In a few short years, if everything goes according to plan, Egypt will have new megaprojects, special investment zones...
CARA ANNA, Associated Press EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly approved a resolution Thursday allowing the Palestinians and...
(BBC) – At least three people have died when a bomb exploded at a camp in north-eastern Nigeria for people who have fled their homes because...
(BBC) – A Kenyan man accused of posing as a gynaecologist and allegedly raping women in his clinic after sedating them has appeared in court in...
