(CBC.ca) – By vowing to “degrade and destroy” the Islamic State militants, U.S. President Barack Obama has laid out a goal that will certainly face a series of...
(BBC) – The main cities in northern Nigeria have been bombed on many occasions. In our series of letters from African journalists, Mannir Dan Ali...
YURI KAGEYAMA, Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s prime minister picked five women for his Cabinet on Wednesday, matching the past record and sending the strongest...
MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN, Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — Lugging duffel bags crammed with soap, socks, toys and other hard-to-obtain consumer goods, travelers arriving in Cuba on Monday...
DANIEL ESTRIN, Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The popularity of the Hamas militant group among Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip has spiked...
Batsheva Sobelman, LOS ANGELES TIMES JERUSALEM (L.A. Times) — Israel appropriated a swath of 990 acres in the West Bank on Sunday and declared the...
JOSEF FEDERMAN, Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — European nations are offering to help enforce the cease-fire in the Gaza Strip, a scenario that could provide key...
SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal researchers next week will start testing humans with an experimental vaccine to prevent the deadly Ebola virus....
CAROLYN THOMPSON, Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — College students from West Africa may be subject to extra health checks when they arrive to study in...
ROD McGUIRK, Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The search area for a missing Malaysian airliner in the southern Indian Ocean has been refined based on...
YOUKYUNG LEE, AP Business Writer SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — For more than 30 years, chef and restaurant owner Oh Keum-il built her expertise in cooking...
KATY DAIGLE, Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s state-owned banks are conducting a massive campaign to open millions of accounts for poor Indians who are...
JOSHUA GOODMAN, Associated Press Writer BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Venezuela’s socialist government is sounding the alarm about growing waistlines in a country where record food shortages...
(Telegraph) – More than 1,400 children were sexually abused over a 16 year period by gangs of paedophiles after police and council bosses turned a blind...
(The Washington Post) – Douglas McAuthur McCain, tattooed and thin, never stayed in one place long. Born on Jan. 29, 1981, in Illinois, he would...
MAGGIE MICHAEL, Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Libya’s past, Islamist-dominated parliament reconvened Monday and voted to disband the country’s current interim government, defying voters who elected...
African Nation’s Leaders Urged to Take Action by D. Kevin McNeir Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer Little girls should have the chance to...
Obama Administration speeds up deportation proceedings by Tony Best Special to the NNPA from the New York Carib News If Caribbean nations and their consular representatives...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief FIRST OF TWO ARTICLES WASHINGTON (NNPA) – The recent conference of African leaders convened by President Obama in the...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Boko Haram, the Islamic extremist group, claims it has added the city of Gwoza to an Islamic state that it has established...
CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA, Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Opposition lawmakers heckled South African President Jacob Zuma during a parliamentary session Thursday in which questions were raised about...
JASON STRAZIUSO, Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The use of child soldiers — teenage boys dressed in military uniforms and carrying assault rifles — is...
HYUNG-JIN KIM, Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — In its latest personal attack on a prominent official from a rival country, North Korea on Wednesday...
(United Nations) – The United Nations is marking World Humanitarian Day today by paying tribute to aid workers who carry out life-saving activities around the...
Special to the NNPA from the New York Amsterdam News Charles Onyango-Obbo of The East African, a Kenyan daily, joined a growing number of writers...
