‘Elevating Muslim American Culture’ By Steve Furay Special to the NNPA from The Michigan Citizen Over the Labor Day weekend, the Islamic Society of North...
CATHY BUSSEWITZ, Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Jim Trevarthen used to teach tourists how to surf on Hawaii’s famed Waikiki Beach. These days, the 62-year-old is...
SARAH EL DEEB, Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Arab foreign ministers have backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s appeal to the United Nations to set a deadline...
JERUSALEM (AP) — An international watchdog organization has slammed Israel for its treatment of thousands of African migrants, saying it is forcing them to leave...
ROBERT BURNS, AP National Security Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Avoidable miscommunication between U.S. air and ground forces led to a “friendly fire” incident in Afghanistan that...
FARAI MUTSAKA, Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe’s president warned against messing with his family, amid a heated debate within the ruling party about his...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief SECOND OF TWO ARTICLES WASHINGTON (NNPA) – President Obama showed a deeply personal side of him rarely seen in...
(Los Angeles Times) – The United States climbed to third in a leading ranking of the world’s most competitive economies, rising for the second straight...
(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...
