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...
FARAI MUTSAKA, Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Caroline Vumbunu believes that exercising among the dead helps prolong her life. Every morning, the 59-year-old takes power...
(BBC) – South Africa’s rugby chief has hit back at allegations of racism following a row over the selection of a mainly white squad for the...
(Sydney Morning Herald) – In the last week, heart-wrenching photographs of dead children on Europe’s shores have re-ignited calls for wealthy western states to reform their...
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LYNSEY CHUTEL, Associated Press MALCOLM RITTER, Associated Press MAGALIESBURG, South Africa (AP) — Scientists say they’ve discovered a new member of the human family tree, revealed...
J.P. LAWRENCE, Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A flock of speedskaters flashed across a parking lot past children learning to roller skate and hundreds of...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has opened a mission for Somalia as part of its effort to normalize relations with the Eastern Africa nation, which continues...
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — The head of Sierra Leone’s National Ebola Response Center says that three new cases of Ebola have emerged in an area...
BABACAR DIONE, Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The former dictator of Chad, Hissene Habre, said Tuesday he will win in his war crimes trial. The...
(New York Daily News) – France and Britain offered to welcome a combined 44,000 Syrian refugees over the next five years, as a former State Department...
(BBC) – Appeal judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague have rejected a request by ex-Ivorian leader Laurent Gbagbo for temporary release on...
LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Three institutions that work together to fight blindness and poverty in Africa are sharing a 1 million euro ($1.1 million) prize from...
(BBC) – Chad’s ex-leader Hissene Habre has been held down by masked security officers in the courtroom at the resumption of his trial for war crimes...
Nick Miroff, THE WASHINGTON POST HAVANA (The Washington Post) — The busy stretch of 23rd Street in Havana that slopes upward from the seawall...
HAVANA, Cuba (The Tico Times) – Cuba has decided to allow doctors who deserted while on foreign missions to return home without punishment or loss of...
IBRAHIM ABDULAZIZ, Associated Press EDWIN KINDZEKA MOKI, Associated Press YOLA, Nigeria (AP) — At least 9,500 people have returned to Nigeria since the Cameroonian government said...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A South African foundation says retired archbishop Desmond Tutu has left a Cape Town hospital after receiving treatment there. The foundation, named after...
