Anne-Marie Garcia and Michael Weissenstein, ASSOCIATED PRESS HAVANA (AP) — The blazing Caribbean sun rose Saturday on a U.S. flag flying over Havana for the...
(NBC News) – Fidel Castro doesn’t exactly sound ready to embrace the new spirit of openness with the United States. To mark his 89th birthday, the former...
CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA, Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A company famous for its pens marked a public holiday honoring women in South Africa with a Facebook post...
(BBC) – A revered monarch in south-west Nigeria, the Ooni of Ife, has been buried after thousands attended his funeral, a mourner has told the BBC....
(The Washington Post) – On July 31, the Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad published a review of several books on race and racism in the United States. The series, written...
(BBC) – Guinea-Bissau’s President Jose Mario Vaz has dismissed the government following a rift with Prime Minister Domingos Pereira. The two men are said to have...
MICHELLE FAUL, Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Boko Haram has a new commander willing to negotiate with Nigeria’s new government, Chad’s President Idriss Deby announced...
CARA ANNA, Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. chief has fired the head of the peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic over the...
SYLVIA HUI, Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Researchers at Britain’s Cambridge University have released letters showing how slaves were priced for sale during the 18th century,...
ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration has intervened in a lawsuit over Palestinian terror attacks that have killed Americans, advising a judge...
(BBC) – Italy’s navy says it has rescued 52 migrants from a sinking rubber dinghy in the Mediterranean, but about 50 others are missing. A warship...
JEFF AMY, Associated Press OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — A young Mississippi couple who are charged with attempting to join the Islamic State were ordered held without...
(BBC) – Military police have raided a house in Cameroon and freed around 70 children who were being held captive and were suffering from disease and...
ANDREA RODRIGUEZ, Associated Press SANTIAGO, Cuba (AP) — This 500-year-old city smells of fresh paint and varnish. Residents stroll along a recently completed harbor promenade under...
(BBC) – Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed a committee to advise him on how best to tackle corruption and reform the legal system. The seven-member...
(Reuters) – Zimbabwe has partially lifted a ban on big-game hunting around Hwange National Park that was imposed after an international outcry over the killing of...
Gbenga Oduntan, CNN LAGOS, Nigeria (CNN)—The government of the state of Lagos — Nigeria’s former capital — has proudly proclaimed it is building a new...
CAELAINN HOGAN, Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — International health officials are scrambling, without much success, to find meningitis C vaccines as an outbreak of the...
(BBC) – Uganda’s Supreme Court has ruled that the practice of refunding a bride price on the dissolution of a customary marriage is unconstitutional and should...
(BBC) – Doctors in Ghana have stopped providing emergency services in a strike over their conditions of service. For more than a week, out patient services...
AYA BATRAWY, Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — In a minute-long video uploaded to YouTube last month, two young Saudi women walk along the...
KAORI HITOMI, Associated Press MARI YAMAGUCHI, Associated Press HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) — Japan marked the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on Thursday, with...
CARLEY PETESCH, Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — New Ebola cases were in the single digits another week, the World Health Organization said Wednesday, showing that...
FRANCES D’EMILIO, Associated Press COLLEEN BARRY, Associated Press ROME (AP) — A fishing boat crowded with migrants overturned Wednesday in the Mediterranean off Libya as rescuers...
