(USA Today) – For Tiananmen Square, it was the “tank man.” For this year’s Hong Kong protests, it could be the “umbrella man.” The image...
(Telegraph) – Hannah Witheridge, 23, and David Miller, 24, were found dead on a beach on the southern island of Koh Tao on September 15....
KRISTA LARSON, Associated Press MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — First the ring tone echoed outside the barbed-wire-topped walls of the Ebola clinic. Then came the wails of...
Ken Dilanian, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Sunday gave voice to the conundrum at the heart of his Syria policy, acknowledging...
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — The identity of what could be the first “Chibok girl” purportedly freed by Islamic extremists in Nigeria remains in doubt. A...
CLARENCE ROY-MACAULAY, Associated Press FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — Sierra Leone on Thursday took the dramatic step of sealing off districts where more than 1 million...
KELVIN CHAN, AP Business Writer HONG KONG (AP) — As trouble brews in Hong Kong, who’s Beijing going to call? The billionaires. With political tension in...
MARK STEVENSON, Associated Press CIUDAD MIER, Mexico (AP) — Mexico overcame 75 years of nationalist pride to reform its flagging, state-owned oil industry. But as it...
(CNN) — Nigerian forces battling the Islamist terror group Boko Haram have killed a man suspected of acting as the group’s leader, Nigeria’s Defense Ministry said. The...
(Time) – Talk of Qatar losing the tournament makes complete sense, but in the crazy world of FIFA it probably will never happen. The Twittersphere...
(BBC) – About 50 MPs have stormed out of Nigeria’s lower house of parliament after a motion to discuss an alleged South African arms deal...
NEW YORK (USA Today) — At an historic summit that enlisted climate pledges from dozens of companies, President Obama called Tuesday on all United Nation...
(The Guardian) – London has overtaken Hong Kong as the world’s most expensive city to live and work in, with a new study suggesting it...
JULIE PACE, AP White House Correspondent NEW YORK (AP) — For President Barack Obama, the participation of five Arab nations in airstrikes in Syria has...
IAN DEITCH, Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli special forces stormed a West Bank hideout early on Tuesday and killed two Palestinians suspected in the June...
BEIJING (New York Times) — Chinese companies, some of them state-owned, are profiting from the production and export of law enforcement equipment that can be used...
Special to the NNPA from The New York Amsterdam News (The New York Amsterdam News)—Approximately 500 refugees are feared dead after their vessel was rammed by...
RODNEY MUHUMUZA, Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni fired his prime minister, a former ally who is widely expected to seek...
JILL LAWLESS, Associated Press EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) — From the capital of Edinburgh to the far-flung Shetland Islands, Scots embraced a historic moment — and the...
(Time) – Sierra Leone has begun a three-day nationwide lockdown as it struggles to contend with the Ebola virus’s unprecedented, lethal thrust across West Africa. Citizens of Sierra...
Tony Capaccio, BLOOMBERG BUSINESSWEEK WASHINGTON (Businessweek.com)—Reaction was swift after a top Pentagon official’s testimony to Congress yesterday that he would support sending U.S. advisers to...
JENNY BARCHFIELD, Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — They huddle in a tight circle, shaking seed-filled maracas and shuffling in time to a rhythm that...
by Askia Muhammad Special to the NNPA from The Final Call ‘Ironically, Mr. Obama’s most outspoken critics—Republican Senators John McCain (Ariz.) and Lindsey Graham (S.C.)—were...
CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA, Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Several legal groups in South Africa have expressed concern about threats and harsh criticism of the judge who...
AMY TAXIN, Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Federal authorities arrested nine people and seized about $90 million Wednesday in raids in the fashion district of...
