SAO PAULO (AP) — The only black to ever serve on Brazil’s top court presided at his last session as president of the Supreme Court...
(CNN) — Mourning three slain Israeli teens at a funeral Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the day “has spontaneously become a national day of mourning.”...
David Smith, THE GUARDIAN JOHANNESBURG (The Guardian)—As Nelson Mandela‘s coffin was slowly lowered into the ground in the hills close to where he grew up, his...
HANNAH DREIER, Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Already grappling with street protests led by the right, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is facing a new threat...
(The Washington Post) – Jimmy Savile was never a handsome man. His face, even in his early days at the BBC, was all sharp edges — the hook...
[CNN MONEY] Ikea is acting on its own to lift the minimum wage, and it’s doing it in a unique way: The U.S. average will be...
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The National Hospital spokesman says a victim wounded in the bomb blast at a mall in Nigeria’s capital died overnight, raising the death toll to at least 22. The government...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Hundreds of old laws in Zimbabwe need to be changed to conform with the southern African nation’s year old constitution, which guarantees democratic...
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...
