(Gulf News) – President Barack Obama’s efforts to normalise relations with Cuba are producing a wave of enthusiasm from US firms eager to do business...
Christopher Torchia, ASSOCIATED PRESS NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — He was a soccer player with a fighting spirit, a talented keyboard player with “golden fingers”...
Michael Weissenstein and Bradley Klapper, ASSOCIATED PRESS HAVANA (AP) — American hopes of opening an embassy in Havana before presidents Barack Obama and Raul Castro...
Mugdha Variyar, INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES GARISSA, Kenya (International Business Times)—After the Al-Shabaab attack on Kenya’s Garissa University left 148 students dead last Thursday, Twitterati have taken it upon...
GARISSA, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s president has vowed to take harsh measures against Islamic militants after they attacked a school near the Somali border,...
CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA, Associated Press TOM ODULA, Associated Press GARISSA, Kenya (AP) — The Islamic extremists who slaughtered 148 people at a college in northeast Kenya as...
PARIS (VOA News) – France will ban excessively thin fashion models and expose modeling agents and the fashion houses that hire them to possible fines and...
(BBC) – The bodies of many of those killed by Islamist militants at a Kenyan university are being moved to the capital Nairobi for identification. At...
(BBC) – The winner of Nigeria’s presidential election, Muhammadu Buhari, has issued a defiant vow against militants Boko Haram, saying they would “soon know the strength...
CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA, Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — It began with a container of excrement. On March 9, a South African student protester tossed...
JOCELYN GECKER, Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — The big topic of conversation in Thailand is martial law. Technically it’s gone, but in reality it’s still there....
TOM ODULA, Associated Press RODNEY MUHUMUZA, Associated Press KHALIL SENOSI, Associated Press GARISSA, Kenya (AP) — Al-Shabab gunmen rampaged through a university in northeastern Kenya at...
MICHELLE FAUL, Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — As Nigerians celebrated the electrifying victory Wednesday that returned one of its harshest former dictators to power, sobering...
DALATOU MAMANE, Associated Press NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — Soldiers fended off an attack on a border town in Niger by Boko Haram and destroyed a base...
(Bloomberg) – Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff is battling to regain the trust of voters and global investors alike as the economy sinks and a corruption...
MIKE CORDER, Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Palestinian Authority became a member of the International Criminal Court on Wednesday, saying it wanted “justice...
MICHELLE FAUL, Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerians celebrated Muhammadu Buhari’s electrifying victory in presidential elections Wednesday but sobering challenges confront their next leader, from...
BOUBACAR DIALLO, Associated Press CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Guinea closed its border with Sierra Leone on Monday as part of new efforts to stamp out Ebola,...
FARES AKRAM, Associated Press GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Despondent over the slow pace of post-war reconstruction, displaced Gazans have begun to return to their...
KADUNA, Nigeria (The Washington Post) — As results from Nigeria’s presidential elections continued to trickle in for a third day, opposition candidate Muhammadu Buhari retained his...
Michlele Faul and Hilary Uguru, ASSOCIATED PRESS ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s electoral commission began counting votes in hotly contested presidential elections Monday as the...
ST GEORGE’S, Grenada (Caribbean News Now)—A Caribbean Community (CARICOM) science delegation is to visit Cuba in an effort to strengthen technology links between the region...
Michelle Faul and Jerome Delay, ASSOCIATED PRESS ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Millions of Nigerians turned out Saturday to vote in a presidential election that analysts...
(Politico) – Barack Obama faces a slew of Middle East crises that some call the worst in a generation, as new chaos from Yemen to...
DALTON BENNETT, Associated Press SHAWN POGATCHNIK, Associated Press VELES, Macedonia (AP) — This is the moment when Sandrine Koffi’s dream of a new life in Europe...
