TAMARA LUSH, Associated Press The photo of the dead 3-year-old Syrian boy on a Turkish beach is haunting. It captures everything we don’t want to see...
(The Washington Post) – Was Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the revered leader of India’s freedom movement, a racist? A controversial new book by two South African university professors reveals shocking details...
(BBC) – South Africa has the highest number of dollar millionaires in Africa, according to a new report. According to a report by AfrAsia Bank and New...
GENEVA (AP) — United Nations staff turned up a case of sexual abuse of a girl by a French soldier in Central African Republic, the U.N....
HAGATNA, Guam (USA Today) — The Guam Legislature Thursday narrowly passed a bill for the creation of a pilot program to chemically castrate convicted sex offenders. The Chemical Castration for Sex Offenders...
SONIA PEREZ D., Associated Press ALBERTO ARCE, Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemala’s newly sworn-in president demanded that all top government officials submit their resignations...
MIKE CORDER, Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Prosecutors on Wednesday accused a Congo militia leader known as “The Terminator” of overseeing brutal atrocities including...
RODNEY MUHUMUZA, Associated Press MUBENDE, Uganda (AP) — The hunt for gold takes the men 100 meters (yards) underground, past contraptions of wood and rope rigged...
(Jerusalem Post) – The Gaza Strip may be uninhabitable in five year’s time if the Israeli blockade of the coastal enclave continues and vital infrastructure is...
SONIA PEREZ D., Associated Press ALBERTO ARCE, Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemalan prosecutors wasted no time in pressing their corruption investigation of President Otto...
ABDI GULED, Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Al-Shabab overran an African Union base in southern Somalia early Tuesday, a Somali military official said, in the...
MAPUTO, Mozambique (AP) — A judge in Mozambique has found two journalists and an academic guilty of defamation over a Facebook post. On Monday, a judge...
(BBC) – In a small, heavily guarded compound on the bullet-riddled outskirts of Baidoa, a secretive team is working to undermine Somalia’s Islamist militant group, al-Shabab,...
(Reuters) – An Afghan man and woman found guilty of adultery received 100 lashes on Monday in front of a crowd who filmed their punishment, TV...
Dany Padire, ASSOCIATED PRESS N’DJAMENA, Chad (AP) — Chad executed by firing squad 10 members of Boko Haram on Saturday, the security minister said,...
KARL RITTER, Associated Press STOCKHOLM (AP) — Day after day, images of soaked and exhausted parents clutching their glassy-eyed children as they arrive on Europe’s shores...
(African Globe) – Members of the East African Legislative Assembly, who are currently sitting in Kampala, want EAC partner states to abolish international child adoption to...
MIRIAM BERGER, Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Ultra-nationalist Israelis took over a four-story building in the heart of an Arab neighborhood in east Jerusalem on Thursday,...
(BBC) – Libyan workers continue to search for bodies at sea and on shore after two migrant vessels capsized on Thursday. Around 200 people are feared...
(Forbes) – Companies looking to hire the most promising Millennial talent in emerging markets will want to provide prospective hires with a guarantee of work-life balance...
(Reuters) – As many as 50 corpses were found in a parked truck in Austria on Thursday, and another migrant boat sank off Libya, deepening a...
(Reuters) – Iran appears to have built an extension to part of its Parchin military site since May, the U.N. nuclear watchdog said in a report on...
(Yahoo) – Folks in Philadelphia still speak with pride about the time Pope John Paul II visited the city in 1979. Next month, a new pope,...
(Bloomberg) – The odds are continuing to rise that one of the strongest El Niño events on record will last until early this spring, and some countries could get...
HARUNA UMAR, Associated Press MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Two suicide bombers killed an Air Force officer at a checkpoint in a late-night attack in Nigeria’s northeastern...
