(Reuters) – The United Nations said on Thursday Islamic State forces may have committed genocide in trying to wipe out the Yazidi minority in Iraq as well as war crimes...
CARA ANNA, Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — At a private working lunch for the five most powerful members of the United Nations Security Council, the...
CARA ANNA, Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — At a private working lunch for the five most powerful members of the United Nations Security Council, the...
EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The head of the U.N. agency promoting equality for women is lamenting that a girl born today...
KRISTA LARSON, Associated Press BAGA SOLA, Chad (AP) — Kellou Abakar knew she was in trouble as the contractions started not long after an Islamic extremist...
GENEVA (VOA News) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry criticized the United Nations Human Rights Council for what he calls its “obsession with Israel.” In...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist It is important for all people of African descent throughout the world to be ever conscious and...
HIPPOLYTE MARBOUA, Associated Press BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — Militia fighters have released a government minister seized more than two weeks ago in Central African...
(CNN) – ISIS has stepped up the use of children in its bloody campaign of terror, the United Nations says — subjecting them horrors that include...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Nigeria has the largest Black population in the world – 178 million. Within that population are 300 differing ethnic...
JERUSALEM (McClatchy) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing growing criticism in Israel for a planned speech to the U.S. Congress about Iran, accused by his...
JERUSALEM (McClatchy) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing growing criticism in Israel for a planned speech to the U.S. Congress about Iran, accused by his...
CHARLTON DOKI, Associated Press RODNEY MUHUMUZA, Associated Press JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — About 3,000 child soldiers will be gradually released from an armed group in...
EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — At least 50 Ebola hotspots remain in the three hardest-hit West African countries but new cases are...
RISDEL KASASIRA, Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Uganda’s military said Tuesday the Lord’s Resistance Army rebel commander who surrendered to American troops last week will...
By Kate Abbey-Lambertz, Huffington Post Detroit’s been shutting off water to customers who reportedly can’t afford to pay their bills, and United Nations experts said Wednesday...