JOHANNESBURG (New York Times) — In the darkened and chilly parking lot of a mall, a suburban family huddling around a shopping cart shared a snack...
(Mirror) – Police are hunting a man in connection with arranging child marriage – after his suspected links with the wedding of 35-year-old man to a...
(BBC) – Cameroon has started to release some of the 84 children detained for more than six months after a raid on Koranic schools. The authorities...
JULIE PACE, AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama announced Wednesday that the U.S. and Cuba will reopen their embassies in Havana and...
KATY DAIGLE, Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Toilets are taken for granted in the industrialized West, but still are a luxury for a third of...
(Politico) – A day after President Barack Obama signed a key trade bill, his administration publicly stated its objection to a provision of the measure...
(BBC) – South Sudan’s army and allied militias “abducted, torched and gang-raped girls” during fighting against rebel forces, a UN report says. Investigators found that at...
(BBC) – A new opinion poll suggests that 87% of people in Nigeria support the legal ban on same-sex relations. That number is lower than five...
(International Business Times) – Violence has erupted in Paris as taxi drivers go on strike and protest against the UberPop ride-sharing application, as roads are blocked,...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – A Dominican Republic court order threatens to force more than 200,000 Dominican-born Haitians from their homes...
Peter Dominiczak, Gordon Rayner, and Ben Farmer, LONDON (The Telegraph) — British Muslims must report concerns about family members or friends becoming radicalised or they...
Adam Taylor, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post) — As the debate about the use of the Confederate flag raged in the United States this...
By Philippe Sotto and Jamey Keaten Associated Press FONTAINES-SUR-SAONE, France (AP) — The top suspect in the beheading of a businessman that French authorities are...
DALTON BENNETT, Associated Press SHAWN POGATCHNIK, Associated Press CREIL, France (AP) — Against the odds, Hamed Kouyate has achieved his childhood dream of escaping African poverty...
(BBC) – An Islamic court has sentenced nine people to death for insulting the Prophet Muhammad in the northern Nigerian city of Kano. The accused, who...
(BBC) – Europe’s migration crisis affects EU member states in different ways – so it is proving difficult to agree on common rules. The influx...
HAMADA ELRASAM, Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — In Egypt, the years of turmoil following its 2011 uprising have seen revolutionary graffiti fade away as the country...
BEIJING (AP) — Racial discrimination and police abuses are rife in the United States, China’s Cabinet said Friday, in a report intended as a counterpoint...
(The Washington Post) — Several mornings a week for the past five years, Smith Laflur has left his one-room cinder-block shack, walked past the stray goats and the...
(The Washington Post) — The Palestinian Foreign Ministry presented documents on Thursday to the International Criminal Court in The Hague asserting that Israel should be investigated...
(Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama will host Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari at the White House on July 20 to discuss fighting the Boko Haram militant group, among...
(Salon) – In the days since Dylann Roof murdered nine people, all African-American, in a church in South Carolina, the national conversation has largely concentrated on...
(BBC) – Boko Haram militants have killed at least 40 people in north-eastern Nigeria, according to witnesses. The attacks on Monday and Tuesday took place in...
(BBC) – The continuing Ebola epidemic in Guinea has set back the country’s fight against malaria, say experts. They estimate 74,000 cases of malaria went...
The Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Around the world, countries have long struggled with questions about flags similar to those faced by South Carolina, which is...
