Category: INTERNATIONAL

In this file photo, three male family members who are also Coptic Christians put their arms together and display their Coptic cross tattoos. (iStock Photo) CAIRO (AP) — Three Coptic Christian students face charges of insulting Islam and will stand trial this week after appearing in a video mocking Muslim prayers, one of a series […]

In this photo taken Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2016, displaced people draw water from a hole dug in the ground, in the United Nations camp for displaced people in the capital Juba, South Sudan. When a delegation of South Sudanese rebels returned to the government-controlled capital Juba last month after two years of war, many refugees […]

People gather around the body of a man and his children killed following an attack by Boko Haram in Dalori village 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Maiduguri, Nigeria, Sunday Jan. 31, 2016. A survivor hidden in a tree says he watched Boko Haram extremists firebomb huts and listened to the screams of children among people […]

Feb. 25, 2015 photo provided by the United Nations, UN peacekeepers from Bangladesh arrive at the Niger Battalion Base in Ansongo, in eastern Mali.. (Marco Dormino/United Nations via AP) GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. human rights office says it has turned up six more cases of alleged sexual abuse against children by European troops in […]

Salah Farah (Twitter Photo) NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenyans are donating to the family of a Muslim man who was fatally wounded by Islamic extremists while shielding Christians during an attack on a bus. On Twitter the hashtag HeroSalah has been trending as some Kenyans fundraise for the family of Salah Farah, who died Sunday […]

COLOGNE, Germany (AP) — Women’s rights activists, far-right demonstrators and leftwing counter-protesters took to the streets of Cologne on Saturday to voice their opinions in the debate that has followed a string of New Y German chancellor and chairwoman of the Christian Democratic Party, CDU, Angela Merkel, speaks during a news conference at a party […]

In this Dec. 14, 2013 file photo AbaThembu King Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo attends the state funeral of former South African President Nelson Mandela in Mthatha in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. King Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo faces lengthy jail time after being convicted of arson, kidnapping and other crimes in a case that highlighted the tension […]

Victims of a Boko Haram attack wait for treatment at a hospital in Maiduguri, Nigeria Monday, Dec. 28, 2015. Boko Haram Islamic extremists struck the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri for the first time in months Monday with rocket-propelled grenades and multiple suicide bombers, witnesses said. At least 50 people were killed and the death […]

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian soldiers fired on unarmed Islamic Shiite children with no provocation in raids that killed hundreds of the minority group in the West African nation, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday. Nigeria shiites muslim took to the street to protest and demanded the release of Shiite leader Ibraheem Zakzaky in Kano, Nigeria, […]

Christian pilgrims from Nigeria pray inside the Grotto of the Church of the Nativity, traditionally believed by Christians to be the birthplace of Jesus Christ, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on Christmas Eve, Thursday, Dec. 24, 2015. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed) BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — Christian faithful from around the world descended Thursday […]

Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers his speech during the opening ceremony of the Johannesburg Summit for the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg, Friday Dec. 4, 2015. Jinping said that every time he visited Africa, he saw new progress and new changes on this continent. (AP Photo) JOHANNESBURG (AP) — […]

PHILIPSBURG, St. Maarten (AP) — Three Syrians traveling with fake Greek passports have been detained in the Dutch Caribbean island of St. Maarten, authorities said Saturday. The public prosecutor’s office said the Syrians were detained Nov. 14 and that the investigation is continuing to determine their identities and how and where they obtained the fake […]