SHAWN POGATCHNIK, Associated Press DUBLIN (AP) — Landmark buildings across Ireland and the world have been floodlit green for St. Patrick’s Day as global celebrations of...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) – Pakistani officials say they have executed 12 people in the country’s single-largest day of executions, after a nationwide ban on the death...
Frances Robles, THE NEW YORK TIMES PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (The New York Times)— With a brisk clap of his hands, Michel Martelly summed up the first steps...
Jamey Keaton and Philippe Sotto, ASSOCIATED PRESS CLICHY-SOUS-BOIS, France (AP) — Some things have changed since riots swept across France’s troubled neighborhoods a decade ago....
Douglas Birch and R. Jeffrey Smith, Center for Public Integrity via THE WASHINGTON POST PELINDABA, South Africa (The Washington Post)—Enough nuclear explosive to fuel half...
Clarence Roy-Macaulay and Robbie Corey-Boulet, ASSOCIATED PRESS FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — Sierra Leone’s vice president sought asylum from the United States on Saturday, saying...
Sylvie Corbet, ASSOCIATED PRESS PARIS (AP) — France has reoriented its military efforts in West Africa to focus more on the fight against Boko Haram,...
Mark Hosenball, REUTERS WASHINGTON (Reuters)—The United States is limiting its intelligence and military aid to Nigeria during Boko Haram’s deadly insurgency due to concerns over...
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...
