Sarah El Deeb, ASSOCIATED PRESS Maggie Michael, ASSOCIATED PRESS CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian court on Monday convicted three Al-Jazeera journalists and sentenced them to...
Christopher Torchia, ASSOCIATED PRESS JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Mozambique plans to clear all known minefields with the help of international backers by the end of this...
(The Independent)—A Sudanese woman who was sentenced to death for converting from Islam to Christianity has been reunited with her family after her release from...
GILLIAN WONG, Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — A court in eastern China on Thursday sentenced to up to 6 ½ years in prison three activists who...
(BBC) – As NATO retreats from Afghanistan, the Taliban are rolling in cash and the movement is turning into a wealthy criminal enterprise, according to...
MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — A Liberian judge has sentenced 13 men to life in prison for “mercenary activity” in neighboring Ivory Coast, state radio reported...
By Jazelle Hunt Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Last year, the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 was amended and reauthorized. This past month, a group of...
(New York Times) – NAIROBI, Kenya — As Kenyan officials reported a second lethal attack on a coastal village, Kenya’s president said Tuesday that the violence,...
SYLVIE CORBET, Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Even France may be getting fed up with strikes. A week into a nationwide train strike that has tangled...
MATTHEW LEE, AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is willing to talk with Iran over deteriorating security conditions in Iraq and is not...
(Reuters) – Some of the schoolgirls abducted by militant group Boko Haram may never return home, Nigeria’s influential former president Olusegun Obasanjo said, in some...
SYLVIA HUI, Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A conference focusing on rape in conflict zones ended on an upbeat note Friday, with hundreds of participants from...
(Time) – Smoking ganja could be a minor infraction in the ganja-growing nation by the end of the summer. Possession of marijuana is soon to...
HIPPOLYTE MARBOUA, Associated Press BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — Violence in Central African Republic pitting Muslim fighters against Christian civilians has killed 21 people so...
(Bloomberg) – East African nations threatened to impose sanctions on South Sudan’s warring sides unless they resolve their differences peacefully and end “flagrant violations” of three agreements...
(Bloomberg) – Four armed men ransacked Antony Akatakpo’s home in front of his wife and two children in the Nigerian city of Port Harcourt, shot him in...
HARUNA UMAR, Associated Press MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Suspected Boko Haram gunmen have reportedly kidnapped 20 women from a nomadic settlement in northeast Nigeria near the...
JOSEF FEDERMAN, Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel gave the final go-ahead Thursday to build nearly 1,500 homes in Jewish settlements, saying the construction was a...
JOSEPH WEBER, The Washington Post (The Washington Post)—China’s effort to choke dissent didn’t begin 25 years ago Wednesday with the Tiananmen Square massacre. But that’s...
RAPHAEL TENTHANI, Associated Press BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) — The new president of Malawi was inaugurated Monday after an election that was disputed by his predecessor. President Peter Mutharika said...
BISWAJEET BANERJEE, Associated Press LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Two teenage sisters in rural India were raped and killed by attackers who hung their bodies from a...
ABUJA, Nigeria (The Washington Post) — When Secretary of State John F. Kerry announced early this month that the Obama administration was rushing a team of...
SAO PAULO (AP) — Supreme Court president Joaquim Barbosa, the only black judge to ever serve on Brazil’s high court, announced Thursday that he will...
MICHELLE FAUL, Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s leader vowed on Thursday to “do everything possible to bring our daughters home,” referring to the mass...
TOM ODULA, Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Corrupt police and other government employees willing to break rules for bribes are weakening Kenya’s ability to prevent...
