(BBC) – The Gambia’s government has denied there has been an attempt to overthrow President Yahya Jammeh while he is abroad. A statement broadcast on state...
by Karen Juanita Carrillo Special to the NNPA from the New York Amsterdam News President Obama’s surprise announcement that the United States will normalize relations with...
(InformationNigeria.com)—Fashion designer turned oil tycoon, Chief (Mrs) Folorunsho Alakija, is now officially the richest black woman in the world with an estimated net worth of...
Peter Orsi, ASSOCIATED PRESS HAVANA (AP) — A half-century after Washington severed relations with Cuba, the United States’ seven-story mission looms over Havana’s seaside Malecon...
Hyung-Jin Kim, ASSOCIATED PRESS SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea blamed its recent Internet outage on the United States on Saturday and hurled racially...
ABDI GULED, Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Gunmen attacked the African Union’s main base in the Somali capital of Mogadishu on Thursday leading to an...
BEN FOX, Associated Press ANNE-MARIE GARCIA, Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — Like tens of thousands of Cubans, Gerardo Luis wants to get to the United States...
Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Activists have praised the U.S. government’s decision to remove Gambia from a trade agreement in response to human rights abuses,...
KHAO LAK, Thailand (AP) — Beachside memorials and religious services were held across Asia on Friday to mark the 10th anniversary of the Indian Ocean...
E. EDUARDO CASTILLO, Associated Press KRISTEN WYATT, Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — Dairo Tio cruises the streets of Havana in a gleaming black 1954 Buick with...
(Bloomberg) – Somalia is seeking to renegotiate an agreement that gives a company run by former British soldiers sole control over one of the world’s richest...
WASHINGTON (New York Times) — For years now, the Obama administration has warned of the risks of a “cyber-Pearl Harbor,” a nightmare attack that takes...
(USA Today) – Algerian soldiers killed the leader of an Islamic State splinter group blamed for the beheading of a French hiker, Algeria’s Ministry of...
SALEH MWANAMILONGO, Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — The widow of Patrice Lumumba, Congo’s first prime minister whose assassination more than 50 years ago made him...
HILARY UGURU, Associated Press MICHELLE FAUL, Associated Press WARRI, Nigeria (AP) — The people of Odi were for years united in their outrage, demanding compensation after...
ALBERTO ARCE, Associated Press TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Roberto Castellanos has the hands of a construction worker and the homework of a 6th grader. Roberto, who...
MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN, Associated Press ANDREA RODRIGUEZ, Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — Cuba said Monday that it has a right to grant asylum to U.S. fugitives, the...
Mimi Whitefield, THE MIAMI HERALD HAVANA, Cuba (The Miami Hearld)—Despite U.S. promises of more trade and travel under renewed diplomatic relations with the communist island, leader...
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (New York Times) — Military action against the Pakistani Taliban intensified on both sides of the border with Afghanistan on Friday, officials said, in...
(Reuters) – One million people have been wounded during Syria‘s civil war and diseases are spreading as regular supplies of medicine fail to reach patients, the...
CLARENCE ROY-MACAULAY, Associated Press BOUBACAR DIALLO, Associated Press FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — One of Sierra Leone’s most senior physicians died Thursday from Ebola, the 11th...
ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration says it’s determined the North Korean government was behind a devastating hacking attack against Sony Pictures...
JACK GILLUM, Associated Press DESMOND BUTLER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — For over half a century, the U.S. government’s schemes to overthrow the Castro government were,...
KRISTEN GELINEAU, Associated Press SYDNEY (AP) — Australia’s prime minister said Thursday that a deadly siege in a Sydney cafe may have been preventable, as the...
ROB GILLIES, Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — A Toronto man who made headlines last month by offering a free round-the-world air ticket to a woman with...
