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(BBC) – Israel has withdrawn its troops from the Gaza Strip to “defensive positions” outside the Palestinian territory.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...
LARA JAKES, AP National Security Writer NEW DELHI (AP) — Hours past midnight Thursday, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was still working the phones, trying...
JULIE PACE, AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration condemned the deadly shelling of a United Nations school in Gaza Wednesday, using tough,...
STACY A. ANDERSON, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Michelle Obama called on young African leaders to change traditional attitudes and beliefs that harm girls and women,...
NEW DELHI — Roughly 8,000 women in India died violent deaths in 2013 because their families were unable to cough up the demands for more dowry,...
GILLIAN WONG, Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — The investigation into China’s former security chief Zhou Yongkang could pave the way for him to stand trial as...
DAN PERRY, Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The savage fighting between Israel and Hamas is escalating in Gaza, cease-fire efforts take on elements of...
CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA, Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Itching to catch a wave? Try Madagascar. The island nation in the Indian Ocean has become the 86th member...
MATTHEW PENNINGTON, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Millions of people were forced from their homes because of their religious beliefs last year, the U.S. government said...
Alexandra Zavis and Batsheva Sobelman, LOS ANGELES TIMES GAZA CITY (Los Angeles Times)—A fragile holiday lull in fighting in the Gaza Strip on Monday was...
(USA Today) – The death of at least 15 Gazans taking shelter Thursday in a United Nations-run school contributed to a Palestinian death toll that has...
SONIA PEREZ D., Associated Press TOCOA, Honduras (AP) — Elsa Ramirez already had lost two brothers to violence in this remote Caribbean region when co-workers handling...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Many immigrants flooding across the southern border of the U.S. say they’re fleeing violent gangs in Central America. Experts, however, say...
(Reuters) – Nigeria could cut the number of polio cases to zero next year and be declared free of the disease in 2018 even though...
ELAINE KURTENBACH, AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Improvements in life spans, education and incomes are slowing due to natural disasters, misguided government policies and worsening...
JOHN HEILPRIN, Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The U.N.’s top human rights official demanded Wednesday that all sides in the two-week war in the Gaza Strip...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Border Patrol agents stationed in South Texas are the busiest in the country, arresting tens of thousands of children illegally crossing the...
LONDON, July 22 – Britain and the UN’s children’s agency on Tuesday hosted the first ever “Girl Summit” to mobilize international efforts to end female...
