ENID, Okla. (The Washington Post) – Other men bought big houses or new pickups with their oil money. Mike Gillham bought his favorite bar. He heads there...
JORGE RUEDA, Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela has already lost many of its brightest young professionals to better-paying jobs abroad, and now the South...
ELAINE GANLEY, Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Criminal networks are busier than ever faking, forging and doctoring travel documents, identity papers, drivers’ licenses and social security...
PARIS (AP) — Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn told a French court that he participated in sex parties reminiscent of orgies in antiquity because he needed “recreational...
ANDREA RODRIGUEZ, Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — Late one balmy spring night during Havana’s 12th Biennial, young working-class men and women lounged on a stretch of...
GERARD NZOHABONA, Associated Press BUJUMBURA, Burundi (AP) — Civic groups in Burundi on Tuesday rejected a U.N. facilitator of talks between the government and those opposed...
MICHELLE FAUL, Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — A child forced to marry at just 13 who then poisoned her 35-year-old husband and three friends is...
CARA ANNA, Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Members of a U.N. peacekeeping mission engaged in “transactional sex” with more than 225 Haitian women who said...
(BBC) – Burundi’s opposition has rejected a proposal by the electoral commission to hold presidential polls on 15 July. The opposition said its demand for free...
President Barack Obama Hails Their Outstanding Contribution by Tony Best Special to the NNPA from the New York Amsterdam News Caribbean Heritage Month began with a...
CIARAN GILES, Associated Press MADRID (AP) — The father of an Ivory Coast boy caught being smuggled into Spain in a suitcase last month has been...
FARAI MUTSAKA, Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwean troops may not use force to oust thousands of street vendors, the high court ruled on Monday,...
Karl Ritter, ASSOCIATED PRESS STOCKHOLM (AP) — When leaders of the Group of Seven wealthy countries pledge to “decarbonize” the global economy they’re talking...
PRETORIA, South Africa (AllAfrica.com) — Delegates from African countries are gathering at the International Relations and Cooperation Department offices in Pretoria as the African Union...
By KaiElz Special to the NNPA via The Chicago Defender Imagine that the story about Bruce Jenner’s sex change or gender transformation as Caitlyn Jenner: got...
CARA ANNA, Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. peacekeeping mission in Central African Republic said Thursday it has launched an investigation into an allegation...
IBRAHIM ABDULAZIZ, Associated Press YOLA, Nigeria (AP) — Two suicide bombers blew themselves up in the main market in Nigeria’s northeastern city of Yola, killing 29...
(BBC) – Eight of the 10 men reportedly jailed for the attempted assassination of Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai were acquitted, it has emerged. In April, officials...
(BBC) – Ghanaians are being questioned about the cause of a petrol station fire in the capital, Accra, in which some 150 people died on Wednesday...
TIM REYNOLDS, AP Sports Writer PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) — In one moment, Jack Warner is on TV telling his countrymen he fears for his life. An...
DAKAR, Senegal (New York Times) — Roughly 100 people have died after an explosion sent flames coursing through a gas station in the center of Accra,...
HONG KONG (New York Times) — For years, Hui King-to has taken part in the solemn candlelight vigil in Victoria Park here commemorating those who...
(BBC) – Police in Italy have arrested 44 people over the rigging of public contracts to run migrant reception centers. Local politicians were among those detained...
(ProPublica) – The neighborhood of Campeche sprawls up a steep hillside in Haiti’s capital city, Port-au-Prince. Goats rustle in trash that goes forever uncollected. Children kick a...
MICHELLE FAUL, Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian military abuses have caused the deaths of some 8,000 civilians in the fight against Boko Haram extremists,...
