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...
(USA Today) TAMPA, Fla. — The teenager who was beaten by Israeli police earlier this month is expected to return to his family Wednesday. “I can’t wait...
SILVIO IZQUIERDO, Associated Press FORTALEZA, Brazil (AP) — The leaders of five emerging market powers said at a summit Tuesday that they gave final agreement to...
SARAH EL DEEB, Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian court sentenced seven men to life in prison on Wednesday for sexual assaults on women during...
(Reuters) – China will dedicate itself to “perfecting” the role developing countries play in international affairs to give them better representation and a greater say,...
by Ashahed M. Muhammad Special to the NNPA from The Final Call CHICAGO (FinalCall.com) – Palestinian political and student organizations led rallies in several cities...
(USA Today) GAZA CITY — As the Palestinian death toll rose, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Friday to continue to target members of Hamas...
KRISTA LARSON, Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Fighters on both sides of the conflict in Central African Republic are living freely despite committing war crimes...
Aron Heller and Najib Jobain, ASSOCIATED PRESS JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel dramatically escalated its aerial assault targeting hundreds of Hamas sites in the Gaza Strip Thursday as...
Christopher Torchia, ASSOCIATED PRESS JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The former head of a South African covert police unit that tortured and killed dozens of people during...
ABDI GULED, Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Somalia’s government fired the police and intelligence chiefs a day after Islamic militants attacked the heavily guarded presidential...
(Sydney Morning Herald) – More than 150 asylum seekers, including around 40 children, face being in limbo on the high seas for weeks in an Australian...
(The Washington Post) BEIJING — Hundreds of rocky islands, islets, sandbanks, reefs and cays lie scattered across Asia’s eastern waters, unimportant-looking to the naked eye but...
Haruna Umar and Michelle Faul, ASSOCIATED PRESS MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — More than 60 Nigerian girls and women abducted two weeks ago by Islamic extremists...
YOUSUR ALHLOU, Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police clashed with rock-throwing Palestinian protesters in Jerusalem on Friday as thousands mourned at the funeral for an...
TOBY STERLING, Associated Press AMSTERDAM (AP) — An Amsterdam court ruled Thursday that the traditional figure known as Black Pete — the sidekick to the Dutch...
THOMAS ADAMSON PARIS (AP) — Former President Nicolas Sarkozy has accused France’s justice system of trying to “humiliate” and “destroy” him, after he was charged...
ROB GILLIES, Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Toronto Mayor Rob Ford said Wednesday he’s used “every drug you can probably think of” and blamed substance abuse...
