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...
By William Covington Special to the NNPA from Our Weekly LOS ANGELES – Three months after 276 young girls were stolen from the “safety” of...
Lara Jakes, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is making a renewed push for a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas...
STEPHEN WRIGHT, AP Business Writers KELVIN CHAN, AP Business Writers HONG KONG (AP) — Hit by two astonishing tragedies in quick succession, the Malaysia Airlines brand...
(DNA India) – The idea of the BRICS Bank was to end the subordination to the Western institutions and economic thought that was being propagated by...
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - Israeli forces on Thursday launched a ground offensive in the Gaza Strip, the military said. The operation came after...
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s president says he wants to borrow $1 billion from abroad for equipment and training for the military fighting an Islamic...
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — A Ukrainian official said a Malaysian passenger plane carrying 295 people was shot down Thursday over a town in the east...
Gaza City (CNN) — A brief respite from the violence in Gaza appeared imminent Wednesday after both sides agreed to a U.N-requested temporary cease-fire. “Factions of the...
