ADAM SCHRECK, Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The family of an Iranian-American correspondent for the Washington Post who has been jailed in Iran...
(Reuters) – Russia, Ukraine and the European Union are likely to conclude an accord on Thursday that would see Moscow resume gas supplies to its ex-Soviet neighbor over...
ANKARA, Turkey (The Washington Post) — The increasingly hostile divergence of views between Turkey and the United States over Syria is testing the durability of their...
The Associated Press The annual Global Gender Gap index by the World Economic Forum, shows marginal improvement in women’s equality worldwide, according to data on access...
DEB RIECHMANN, Associated Press BASSEM MROUE, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Al-Qaida is using U.S.-led coalition airstrikes in Syria as a reason to extend olive branches...
NOEL SICHALWE, Associated Press CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA, Associated Press LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — Zambia’s vice president Guy Scott, a white Zambian of Scottish descent, became the country’s...
(The Washington Post) – In a remarkable new video released by the Islamic State militants, British hostage John Cantlie gives a tour of the Syrian...
Sean Silbert and Julie Makinen, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BEIJING (The L.A. Times)—Hong Kong’s democracy protesters are fighting off their chief executive, who is dressed...
(BBC.com)—For six months the world has waited for news of the fate of more than 200 girls abducted by Nigerian militant group Boko Haram. As the...
(BBC) – Voters are going to the polls in Botswana in what is expected to be the closest general elections in the world’s largest diamond...
(BBC) – Women’s football may be the fastest growing sport in the world but it faces huge challenges in Africa. More than 20 years after coming...
(Vanity Fair) – To be an undocumented immigrant is to obsess over documents. A driver’s license, for example, is not merely a driver’s license—it proves you...
BERLIN (AP) — An anti-corruption watchdog says that several of the Group of 20 global economic powers are making little or no effort to enforce...
(The Washington Times) – The ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee took the Obama administration to task Friday for its “irresponsible” plan to allow...
(Business Week) – Persistent violence in northeast Nigeria is undermining the government’s claims to have brokered a cease-fire with Islamist militant group Boko Haram. A lack...
(The Independent) – Singapore has topped Lonely Planet’s Best in Travel 2015 list this year, followed by Namibia and Lithuania. With its unique style of cuisine and culture,...
(The Washington Post) – The World Health Organization has declared Nigeria Ebola-free — after more than six weeks without a new case of the disease...
Bashir Adigun and Maria Cheng, ASSOCIATED PRESS ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The World Health Organization declared on Monday that Nigeria is free of Ebola, a rare...
Alexandra Zavis, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES GENEVA, Switzerland (The L.A. Times)—The World Health Organization has declared the Ebola outbreak over in Senegal, saying the country’s...
Aron Heller, ASSOCIATED PRESS PETAH TIKVA, Israel (AP) — At first glance, the multi-tiered jungle of concrete off a major central Israeli highway does not appear unusual...
Emmanuel Camillo and Lynsey Chutel, ASSOCIATED PRESS MAPUTO, Mozambique (AP) — Observer missions declared Mozambique’s national election free and fair as votes continued to be counted on Friday. The...
Clare Baldwin and James Pomfret, REUTERS (Reuters)—Hong Kong riot police used pepper spray and baton charged crowds of pro-democracy protesters on Friday evening as tension escalated after a...
Sheilia Passewe, Special for USA TODAY MONROVIA, Liberia (USA Today) — Ever since Frank Mulbah’s mother died of Ebola in August, no one will go near...
Hopes for better relations were given impetus after a group of high-level North Korean officials made a rare visit to South Korea earlier this month and...
by Tony Best Special to the NNPA from the New York Carib News Act now and avert a global public health emergency. That, in essence,...
