SARAH EL DEEB, Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The knock on the door came just before midnight, a group of plainclothes police demanding that 29-year-old Fatma...
KELVIN CHAN, Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong lawmakers defeated the government’s Beijing-backed election plan Thursday, vindicating pro-democracy activists who flooded the streets last...
MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN, Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — Cuba says it’s expanding Internet access by adding Wi-Fi capacity to dozens of state-run Internet centers and more than...
(BBC) – Chad’s military says it has carried out airstrikes in neighbouring Nigeria on suspected positions of militant Islamist group Boko Haram. The strikes were in...
(BBC) – Chad’s military says it has carried out airstrikes in neighbouring Nigeria on suspected positions of militant Islamist group Boko Haram. The strikes were in...
By Sadijah Wallace Special to the NNPA from Howard University News Service WASHINGTON – It was the find that Lonnie Bunch III and the new National...
MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN, Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — Six months ago Wednesday, Presidents Barack Obama and Raul Castro stunned the world by announcing an end to their...
FARAI MUTSAKA, Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Harare resident Alice Mhandara spent a U.S. dollar to take the bus into town to answer the government...
MEXICO CITY (New York Times) — Hundreds of thousands of migrant workers are facing deportation from the Dominican Republic, the latest in a series of actions by...
MEXICO CITY (New York Times) — Hundreds of thousands of migrant workers are facing deportation from the Dominican Republic, the latest in a series of actions by...
(BBC) – The US says it will give $5m (£3.2m) towards a multi-national task force being set up to fight Nigeria’s militant Islamist group Boko Haram....
(Salon) – Last week, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon capitulated to pressure from the Obama administration and removed Israel’s armed forces from a child rights...
MARK STEVENSON, Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico on Monday enacted a measure meant to help hundreds of thousands of young migrants who have returned...
EZEQUIEL ABIU LOPEZ, Associated Press SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Haitians and other non-citizens stood in long lines across the Dominican Republic on Monday in...
EZEQUIEL ABIU LOPEZ, Associated Press SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Haitians and other non-citizens stood in long lines across the Dominican Republic on Monday in...
Dany Padire, ASSOCIATED PRESS N’DJAMENA, Chad (AP) — Suicide bombers on motorcycles simultaneously attacked two buildings including the national police academy in Chad’s capital...
By Kai EL’ Zabar Special to the NNPA from The Chicago Defender When I mentioned to my publisher that I had been invited to...
Greg Grandin, THE NATION (The Nation) — Last week, I wrote that the Dominican Republic has summarily stripped over a hundred thousand Dominicans born...
HYUNG-JIN KIM, Associated Press KIM TONG-HYUNG, Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Authorities in South Korea temporarily closed two hospitals amid persistent fears over the...
(RT) – Northern Ireland’s sex trade ban has left prostitutes in fear of “danger and poverty.” In an in-depth interview with RT, one sex worker...
ENID, Okla. (The Washington Post) – Other men bought big houses or new pickups with their oil money. Mike Gillham bought his favorite bar. He heads there...
ENID, Okla. (The Washington Post) – Other men bought big houses or new pickups with their oil money. Mike Gillham bought his favorite bar. He heads there...
JORGE RUEDA, Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela has already lost many of its brightest young professionals to better-paying jobs abroad, and now the South...
JORGE RUEDA, Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela has already lost many of its brightest young professionals to better-paying jobs abroad, and now the South...
ELAINE GANLEY, Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Criminal networks are busier than ever faking, forging and doctoring travel documents, identity papers, drivers’ licenses and social security...