LOUISE WATT, Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China is targeting popular smartphone-based instant messaging services in a monthlong campaign to crack down on the spreading of...
JOCELYN GECKER, Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — When Thailand’s military staged a coup last week, Phil Koenighaus was on a beach enjoying the debauchery of the...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The brightly painted Haitian minibuses known as tap-taps are getting even more colorful in the lead-up to the World Cup. Although...
(ABC News) – Meriam Yehya Ibrahim Ishag, the Sudanese woman facing a death sentence for marrying a Christian, has given birth, Amnesty International confirmed to ABC...
ABDI GULED, Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Militants in Mogadishu on Saturday carried out a multi-pronged, complex attack against the country’s parliament building involving a...
JOSHUA GOODMAN, Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Accusations of bribes from drug traffickers, spying and email hacking have turned Colombia’s presidential election into an ugly...
GRANT PECK, Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — The general who led the military takeover of Thailand is known as an ardent defender of the monarchy, an...
HAMZA HENDAWI, Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — A Cairo court on Wednesday convicted ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak of embezzlement, sentencing him to three years in...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States has deployed 80 military personnel to Chad to help locate the nearly 300 girls kidnapped in Nigeria last month,...
(The Washington Post) – They stood in the sun, sweating. They clutched homemade guns. Some had poisoned-tipped spears. Others wore camouflage or brandished amulets. All...
MATTHEW PENNINGTON, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The indictment of five Chinese military officials on cyber espionage charges will intensify friction between Beijing and Washington that...
(Bloomberg) – A rogue general in Libya who’s confronting Islamist militias and seeking to shut down the country’s parliament gained support in the east of...
(CNN) — Nigeria and four neighboring countries will share intelligence and border surveillance in the hunt for more than 200 Nigerian girls still held by Boko Haram,...
By Boubacar Diallo and Sarah DiLorenzo Associated Press CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Ebola could continue to spread in West Africa for months in one of the...
By Peter Leonard Associated Press DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s prime minister went on a charm offensive Friday as he visited the country’s southeast, pledging...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A threatened, but averted, American missile strike to punish Syria’s government for a chemical weapons attack last summer would not have been powerful...
PERTH, Australia (AP) — For the fifth time in recent days, an underwater sensor detected a signal in the same swath of the southern Indian Ocean...
Cars and Bikes Share the Roads in China. (Photo by Ann Ragland/NNPA) by George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief (SECOND IN THE SERIES) BEIJING (NNPA) – When...
With 1.3 billion people in China, residents in urban areas live in high-rise apartments similar to this one in Beijing(Photo by Ann Ragland/NNPA). First grade students...
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe issued an official proclamation on Friday setting March 16 as the date for the nation to vote on...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Human Rights Watch said Israeli airstrikes during the most recent Gaza Strip conflict last November “violated the laws of war.” Field investigations, which the...
TOYA, Mali — The insurgents who have fled from invading French troops in Mali have been taking with them some of their most important possessions —...
By Akeya Dickson Washington Correspondent NNPA News Service During Russell Simmons’ recent visit to Israel, he realized the longstanding Palestinian-Israeli conflict looked a lot like something...
