MUNEEZA NAQVI, Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s home minister said Thursday that the government would act against the British Broadcasting Corporation after it ignored...
(Reuters) – China plans to run its biggest budget deficit in 2015 since the global financial crisis, stepping up spending as Premier Li Keqiang signalled...
(BBC) – Scientists have unearthed the jawbone of what they claim is one of the very first humans. The 2.8 million-year-old specimen is 400,000 years older...
LYNSEY CHUTEL, Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — With no majority winner of Lesotho’s Feb. 28 election, one leader of the main opposition group tried to form...
ROME (The Washington Post) — In dramatic sea rescues north of Libya, a flotilla of ships saved more than 1,000 migrants and refugees, while 10...
AMY TAXIN, Associated Press IRVINE, Calif. (AP) — Federal agents searched three dozen homes Tuesday in California during a crackdown on so-called maternity tourism operators who...
ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON, Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Under a scorching sun, dozens of Haitians shuffled impatiently about the brick-walled courtyard of Our Lady of...
GENEVA (VOA News) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry criticized the United Nations Human Rights Council for what he calls its “obsession with Israel.” In...
ELIAS MESERET, Associated Press ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — South Sudan’s rebels on Tuesday warned that peace talks with the government could fail if the government...
LORNE COOK, Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Liberia’s president on Tuesday called for an Ebola “Marshall Plan” to help rebuild economies in West African nations devastated...
NAIROBI, Kenya (Reuters)—Namibia’s outgoing president, Hifikepunye Pohamba, has won the Mo Ibrahim Foundation’s $5 million African leadership prize, an award meant to recognize good governance...
Jason Patinkin, ASSOCIATED PRESS JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — The U.N. children’s agency said on Saturday that hundreds of children were abducted two weeks ago...
Tim Cocks, REUTERS OTUOKE, Nigeria (Reuters)—The most impressive building in Otuoke, Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan’s home town in the oil producing Niger Delta, is the...
Edwin Kindzeka Moki, ASSOCIATED PRESS YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) — Thousands of Cameroonian youths marched through the capital Saturday to show support for the military’s battle...
AHMED SAKA, Associated Press HARUNA UMAR, Associated Press JOS, Nigeria (AP) — Explosions in Nigeria’s north central city of Jos and the northeastern town of Biu...
(BBC) – Ugandan police harass and physically abuse gay people in custody, a report by a human rights group has said. Chapter Four Uganda documented several...
(BBC) – If you are a Ghanaian, you tend to worry about Nigeria. Some would say we Ghanaians have enough on our own plates to...
LYNSEY CHUTEL, Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The African Union chairwoman is “safe and sound,” the organization said on Thursday, after leaked intelligence documents revealed a...
(Reuters) – Somalia’s al Shabaab militants said they carried out a mortar attack on the presidential palace in the capital Mogadishu on Thursday, but there...
TIA GOLDENBERG, Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — When Israelis go to the polls next month, tens of thousands of Jewish settlers in the West Bank will...
DAVID McFADDEN, Associated Press KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Jamaican lawmakers on Tuesday night passed an act to decriminalize small amounts of pot and establish a licensing...
(Bloomberg) – Emerging markets in Asia and Africa still reign supreme: They’re at the top of global growth projections over the next two years. The world...
LUZ DARY DEPABLOS, Associated Press HANNAH DREIER, Associated Press SAN CRISTOBAL, Venezuela (AP) — A 14-year-old boy died Tuesday after being shot in the head during...
Special to the NNPA from the Global Information Network (GIN) – After a published plea from Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan for U.S. combat troops in the...
REUTERS – Israel set a 10-year record last year for the number of tenders it issued for construction in settlements on occupied land in the...
