TOBY STERLING, Associated Press AMSTERDAM (AP) — A Facebook page seeking to preserve the “Black Pete” clowns in blackface who accompany St. Nicholas to the Netherlands...
GILLIAN GOTORA, Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — And the winner is … Ezmerald Kim Kardashian. That was the stage name for a young man who won the...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – In a move that has implications for Blacks throughout the U.S., more than a...
by Jehron Muhammad Special to the NNPA from The Final Call (FinalCall.com) – During a recent speech at the University of South Africa, former President Thabo...
by Tony Best Special to the NNPA from the New York Carib News “Heartlessness!” Harry F’ouche’, a former Haitian Consul-General in New York, was expressing outrage...
BEIJING (AP) — Forget all the headlines about eye-watering pollution in Beijing and Shanghai — the Middle Kingdom’s latest tourism slogan invites visitors to “Beautiful China.” Adorning buses and...
by JERRY HARMER, Associated Press PAKSE, Laos (AP) — Rescuers in fishing boats pulled bodies from the muddy Mekong River on Thursday as officials in Laos...
[BBC News Africa] Hundreds of people have died in detention facilities in north-east Nigeria as the army tries to crush an Islamist militant rebellion there, according...
by EZEQUIEL ABIU LOPEZ, Associated Press SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — In a school auditorium filled with laughing students, actresses Luz Bautista Matos and Clara...
by ESAM MOHAMED, Associated Press TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — A car bomb exploded outside a building housing the Swedish and Finnish consulates in the eastern Libyan...
[Los Angeles Times] CAIRO — Libya slipped deeper into turmoil Thursday when gunmen staged a brief but brazen abduction of the country’s prime minister, storming into...
[Naharnet] Morocco’s King Mohammed VI appointed a new Islamist-led government on Thursday ending a months-long crisis triggered by the defection of a key coalition partner, a...
Special to the NNPA from The Final Call Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, center, speaks from head table. (FinalCall.com) – While in town for the 68th UN...
[NBC News] The team of less than two dozen Navy SEALs from Seal Team 6 huddled in one fast boat and headed toward the Somali shoreline...
[BBC News] A criminal investigation into former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, for allegedly soliciting secret campaign financing from France’s richest woman, has been dropped, judicial sources...
[Reuters] (Reuters) – For the 22nd consecutive year, Cuba will ask the United Nations to condemn the United States economic embargo against the island, a top...
Pope Francis lamented the mass drowning of African boat people off the Italian island of Lampedusa on Thursday as “shameful” evidence of human indifference to those...
KHARTOUM, Sudan, Oct. 4 (UPI) — Revolution may be coming to Sudan if the current administration of Omar al-Bashir maintains its grip on power, a member of the opposition...
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...
