JASON STRAZIUSO, Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Poachers killed an estimated 100,000 elephants across Africa between 2010 and 2012, a huge spike in the continent’s...
(CNet) – Locked inside a small apartment in central London, Julian Assange has avoided arrest only because his dimly lit ground-floor bedroom also happens to...
(BBC) – A group of soldiers in north-eastern Nigeria is refusing to fight Islamist Boko Haram militants until they receive better equipment, one of the mutineers...
by Sameer N. Yacoub and Vivian Salama, ASSOCIATED PRESS BAGHDAD (AP) — The decision by Iraq’s embattled Nouri al-Maliki to step down as prime minister...
TOBY STERLING, Associated Press AMSTERDAM (AP) — Amsterdam’s mayor and the organizers of a large children’s winter festival have unveiled plans to overhaul the image of...
CAIRO (AP) — Palestinian officials voiced cautious optimism Thursday, hinting at progress in Egyptian-mediated negotiations with Israel to bring an end to the fighting in Gaza...
(NPR) – “The future of humanity is increasingly African.” That’s the prediction in a new UNICEF report, which estimates that by the end of this century,...
GREG KELLER, Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Calling the situation in Iraqi Kurdistan “catastrophic,” France said Wednesday it would start supplying arms to the Kurdish forces...
JASON STRAZIUSO, Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The U.N. Security Council could impose sanctions on leaders in South Sudan if gross violations of human rights...
CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA, Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Hecklers on Tuesday accused South African Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa of being a murderer for the police killings of...
RODNEY MUHUMUZA, Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda is urging parliamentarians not to rush to reintroduce a controversial anti-gay law that...
by Bert Wilkinson Special to the NNPA from the New York Amsterdam News Last week, Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar fired controversial Sports...
Liz Sly, THE WASHINGTON POST FISHKHABOUR, Iraq (The Washington Post) — Burned by the sun, blistered with thirst and weak from exhaustion, thousands of Yazidis on...
CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN, Associated Press McALLEN, Texas (AP) — Far fewer unaccompanied immigrant children are crossing the Texas-Mexico border, allowing the federal government to close the temporary...
HARUNA UMAR, Associated Press MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Fighters from Nigeria’s Boko Haram militant group seized the northeastern town of Gwoza, overwhelming soldiers based in the...
JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli Cabinet minister warned Thursday that Israel will respond if Hamas resumes fire after a temporary truce expires in the Gaza...
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — They were leaders of Cambodia’s infamous Khmer Rouge, the fanatical communist movement behind a 1970s reign of terror that transformed...
By GRANT PECK and KRISTEN GELINEAU, Associated Press For thousands of well-off childless couples, the dream of having a baby is often realized in places...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – South Sudan, the world’s youngest country, is dangerously close to famine as a result of food...
JASON STRAZIUSO, Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — South Sudan government negotiators and rebel representatives met Monday for a fifth round of peace talks since fighting...
(BBC) – Israel has withdrawn its troops from the Gaza Strip to “defensive positions” outside the Palestinian territory. It says the main aim of its...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama signed a bill Monday granting an additional $225 million in U.S. taxpayer dollars for Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense...
by Craig D. Frazier Special to the NNPA from the New York Amsterdam News Last week, a number of local and international events occurred to...
Umaru Fofana and Clair MacDougall, REUTERS (Reuters) – Hundreds of troops deployed in Sierra Leone and Liberia on Monday under an emergency plan to fight...
SYLVIE CORBET, Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The Council of Europe is taking new steps to combat violence against women under a newly ratified convention that...
