ELI, West Bank (New York Times) — Singing and dancing greeted a triumphant Benjamin Netanyahu when he visited Eli, then a young settlement of 959 residents, shortly after first...
(Bloomberg) — The Venezuelan military’s failure to comply with bullet coding laws is fueling the world’s second-highest murder rate and enriching black market speculators, according...
(BBC) – Former Zimbabwe international Bruce Grobbelaar believes players will leave the country as a result of the team’s expulsion from the 2018 World Cup. The...
ZEINA KARAM, Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Islamic State militants have accepted a pledge of allegiance by the Nigerian-grown Boko Haram extremist group, according to a...
(YNet News) – As Israelis prepare to elect a new government next week, the view from the Palestinian territories in the West Bank and Gaza is not one of...
(Bloomberg) – In 2006, the tiny Caribbean state of St. Kitts and Nevis was in deep trouble. Its sugar plantations had closed a year earlier,...
ABDI GULED, Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Suspected Islamic militants attacked the headquarters of Somalia’s South Western State government in Baidoa, killing at least four...
TOM ODULA, Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Decades of conflict and discrimination have left people with disabilities in Somalia vulnerable to forced marriage, violence and...
by LYNSEY CHUTEL, Associated Press A South African man who was reunited with his kidnapped daughter after 17 years said on Tuesday that he would...
(Daily Mail) – The robbery of a South African news team has sent shock waves through the country after the brazen muggers were filmed on the...
(All Africa) – Just a day after launching a joint offensive against the terrorist group Boko Haram in Nigerian territory, Niger and Chadian forces recaptured...
JERUSALEM (New York Times) — Isaac Herzog was getting nervous about the traffic as his car crawled north out of Tel Aviv, on the campaign trail,...
YAOUNDE (VOA News) – Nigerian Muslims who fled to Cameroon to escape Boko Haram say they are being shunned as suspected sympathizers of the insurgent group....
CARA ANNA, Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — At a private working lunch for the five most powerful members of the United Nations Security Council, the...
(BBC) – Ivory Coast’s former first lady, Simone Gbagbo, has been sentenced to 20 years in jail for her role in the violence that followed the...
Noel Sichalwe, ASSOCIATED PRESS LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — Zambia’s president tried to steady himself against his podium while watching a military procession but then he...
David McHugh, ASSOCIATED PRESS FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The European Central Bank has hit the launch button on its 1.1 trillion euro ($1.2 trillion) stimulus...
(VOA News) – Russia has detained two suspects in the murder of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, the head of Russia’s federal security service told state television...
ROBERT BURNS, AP National Security Writer MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — The top U.S. general predicts the one-two punch of Iranian-backed militias and Iraqi government troops will...
BABA AHMED, Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — A masked gunman sprayed bullets in a restaurant popular with foreigners in Mali’s capital early Saturday, killing five...
HARUNA UMAR, Associated Press MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Boko Haram militants are rampaging through northeast Nigerian villages and selectively killing men, boys and members of the...
EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The head of the U.N. agency promoting equality for women is lamenting that a girl born today...
ALAN CLENDENNING, Associated Press LORNE COOK, Associated Press MADRID (AP) — The European Union is immersed in a full-fledged migration crisis. Some officials are even floating...
(Miami Herald) – Two weeks after a Haitian man was lynched in the Dominican Republic, thousands marched through the streets of Port-au-Prince on Wednesday, demanding...
KRISTA LARSON, Associated Press BAGA SOLA, Chad (AP) — Kellou Abakar knew she was in trouble as the contractions started not long after an Islamic extremist...
