[Tech Radar] After making a teary, Dirty Dancing-inspired farewell to a packed room of employees, Microsoft’s departing CEO Steve Ballmer was gone. Sort of. Ballmer has until August 23...
[The Australian] The White House has criticised China’s media restrictions after a New York Times journalist was forced out of the country. The departure yesterday of...
[Israel Hayom] Former Military Intelligence chief Maj. Gen. (res.) Amos Yadlin, now head of the INSS, thinks neither Israel or the Palestinians are ready to make...
NAIROBI, KENYA (AP) – A Kenyan military spokesman says most Kenyan troops will soon leave Somalia’s port city of Kismayo which they have controlled since September...
[Bloomberg] Even as he calls income inequality the “defining challenge of our time,” President Barack Obama is pursuing new trade agreements that some of his political allies say will only...
[AFP] Addis Ababa — Conflict in the Central African Republic and South Sudan dominated the agenda as Africa’s leaders met in Ethiopia Thursday for a two-day...
[Telegraph] The attack in the restive state of Borno, and reports that 22 people were killed in a separate assault in neighbouring Adamawa, came just a...
[Wall Street Journal] CAIRO—Egypt’s top military leader, Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, moved closer to succeeding the Islamist president that appointed him and that he then ousted...
JOSEF FEDERMAN, Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The love life of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s son is setting off sparks — in Israeli politics. News that...
[Sci News] The genome sequence of a man who lived in what is modern Spain 7,000 years ago reveals that European hunter-gatherers were dark-skinned and blue-eyed....
BARBARA ORTUTAY, AP Technology Writers MICHAEL LIEDTKE, AP Technology Writers SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Technology companies and industry groups took President Barack Obama’s speech on U.S....
by Khorri Atkinson Special to the NNPA from the New York Amsterdam News Haiti Needs Us Four years ago, when a 7.0 magnitude earthquake damaged Haiti’s...
ROB GILLIES, Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — A new video of Mayor Rob Ford emerged Tuesday that shows him swearing and slurring his words while apparently...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will hold an African leaders summit in Washington this summer. The White House says the summit will focus on strengthening...
[AllAfrica] A new anti-gay law signed on Monday by Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan risks hindering progress in the fight against HIV/AIDS in Nigeria, UNAIDS and the...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Institutionalized racism persists in Brazil despite government efforts to tackle the issue, members of a United Nations panel examining conditions among...
RAY FAURE, Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Retired Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s home was robbed while he was away to attend the memorial honoring Nelson Mandela, police...
TOM ODULA, Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — About 300 journalists and civil rights activists marched to parliament and the president’s office Tuesday in Kenya’s capital...
(Reuters) – The United States pledged support for ally Japan on Wednesday in a growing dispute with China over islands in the East China Sea and senior U.S. administration officials accused Beijing...
SONIA PEREZ D., Associated Press ANTIGUA, Guatemala (AP) — With its cobblestone streets and colonial-era churches and plazas, picturesque Antigua has long been Guatemala’s top tourist...
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) — Caribbean leaders will hold a special emergency meeting to discuss a court ruling in the Dominican Republic that could strip citizenship rights...
KRISTA LARSON, Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Rebels in Central African Republic decimated a mostly Christian village earlier this month, burning down dozens of homes,...
CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA, Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The carjackers were swift and methodical. They were also creatures of habit. On three occasions this month, armed criminals...
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — An official says Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan is “indisposed” in London and doctors have advised he “rest for a few days.” Special...
[The Washington Post] CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela’s legislature on Tuesday gave President Nicolás Maduro decree powers that he says are necessary for an “economic offensive” against...
