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...
PARIS (AP) — Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn told a French court that he participated in sex parties reminiscent of orgies in antiquity because he needed “recreational...
ANDREA RODRIGUEZ, Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — Late one balmy spring night during Havana’s 12th Biennial, young working-class men and women lounged on a stretch of...
GERARD NZOHABONA, Associated Press BUJUMBURA, Burundi (AP) — Civic groups in Burundi on Tuesday rejected a U.N. facilitator of talks between the government and those opposed...
MICHELLE FAUL, Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — A child forced to marry at just 13 who then poisoned her 35-year-old husband and three friends is...
MICHELLE FAUL, Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — A child forced to marry at just 13 who then poisoned her 35-year-old husband and three friends is...
CARA ANNA, Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Members of a U.N. peacekeeping mission engaged in “transactional sex” with more than 225 Haitian women who said...