(BBC) – The new bill defines domestic violence for the first time and offers clear guidance on restraining orders. Activists have welcomed the move but...
KELVIN CHAN, Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Police arrested key student leaders as they cleared the most volatile of Hong Kong’s three pro-democracy protest camps...
Jason Straziuso, ASSOCIATED PRESS NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A Maasai community near Tanzania’s Serengeti National Park may be able to keep its traditional homeland after...
(New York Times) – Several foreign countries, including China, have infiltrated the computers of critical industries in the United States to steal information that could...
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (New York Times) — Sri Lanka’s health minister quit President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s government Friday to challenge him in the upcoming elections, accusing the...
(The Mirror) – Ivory Coast sealed their place in the Africa Cup of Nations with a 0-0 draw with Cameroon on Wednesday night – but the...
(Daily Mail) – Grieving friends and relatives of the murdered Miss Honduras beauty queen and her sister have said goodbye at a double funeral. Maria...
Mexico City (Zee Zee News) – Mexico prepared on Thursday for a national day of protest and marches for 43 missing students culminating in the arrival of the...
LONDON (AP) — The United Nations Population Fund said Tuesday that changing demographics, mainly in Africa and Asia, could lead to rapid economic growth if...
JOSEF FEDERMAN, Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Streets are subdued, marketplaces are quiet and people are on edge in Jewish areas of Jerusalem, where Arabs have...
JERUSALEM (USA Today) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to “respond harshly” after five people — three of them U.S.-born rabbis — were killed...
Special to the NNPA from the Global Information Network (GIN) — The National Union of Metal Workers of South Africa, or Numsa, a major partner of...
By Sherrel Wheeler Stewart Special to the NNPA The Southern Christian Leadership Conference, leader in the transformational nonviolent Civil Rights Movement America in the 1960s,...
Farai Mutsaka, ASSOCIATED PRESS HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe’s vice president has denied reports that she is planning to assassinate President Robert Mugabe and said she is...
(BBC.com—A three-month Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has ended after claiming at least 49 lives, the country’s health minister says. Felix Kabange...
Robert Mackey, THE NEW YORK TIMES (The New York Times)—Hundreds of Dutch citizens plan to don blackface this weekend for parades in honor of St. Nicholas,...
Ouagadougou (Zee Zee News) – Burkina Faso’s head of transition Isaac Yacouba Zida has said the army is in agreement with the Transition Charter proposed by civilian groups, but talks...
BRAHIMA OUEDRAOGO, Associated Press OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — A general who attempted to declare himself president of Burkina Faso amid that country’s chaos has flown...
FOYA, Liberia (The Washington Post) — The Ebola virus, which has killed more than 2,830 Liberians and collapsed the country’s health-care system, is also attacking Liberia’s...
LARA JAKES, AP National Security Writer BEIJING (AP) — For his job with IBM, Yang Bo has so far traveled to the United States at least...
MIKE CORDER, Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Netherlands’ highest administrative court refused Wednesday to wade into the increasingly acrimonious national debate around “Black...
JERUSALEM (AP) - It has been a difficult year for Israelis and Palestinians, with the failure of peace talks and a string of violent incidents...
Special to the NNPA from the Global Information Network Oct. 27 (GIN) — The ruling Botswana Democratic Party won a majority of seats in parliamentary...
NOEL SICHALWE, Associated Press LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — The coffin of President Michael Sata, draped in Zambia’s flag, was placed on a red carpet at the center of a stadium...
Adamu Adamu and Michelle Faul, ASSOCIATED PRESS POTISKUM, Nigeria (AP) — A suicide bomber disguised in a school uniform detonated explosives at a high school...
