Category: INTERNATIONAL

Chadian soldiers escorting a group of journalists ride on trucks and pickups in the Nigerian city of Damasak, Nigeria, Wednesday, March 18, 2015. Damasak was flushed of Boko Haram militants last week, and is now controlled by a joint Chadian and Nigerien force. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay) ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s military claims it has […]

In this Monday, March 16, 2015 file photo, passengers sit on a bus driving past a billboard with the photo of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and late rabbi Ovadia Yosef, a long time spiritual leader of the Shas party, a day ahead of legislative elections, in Bnei Brak near Tel Aviv, Israel. Netanyahu […]

President John Mahama’s recent loan from the International Monetary Fund is troubling to some. (Courtesy Photo) (GIN) – The steady nation of Ghana could be heading for a painful train wreck as government borrowing raises the foreign debt to sky-high levels. Last month, President John Mahama signed on to a nearly $1 billion loan from […]

Performers from the Imperatriz Leopoldinense samba school parade in a float with the sculpture depicting Nelson Mandela, during carnival celebrations at the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2015. (AP Photo/Leo Correa) RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Racial pride and the fight against racism in Brazil were the themes of samba group […]

A man takes pictures of the float on which a singer was electrocuted by an overhead power line as the float passed beneath it during a carnival parade in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, early Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2015. At least 20 people were killed early Tuesday after he was electrocuted, setting off a panic in which dozens […]

NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — Nigeria’s Islamic extremists invaded a second country in the region Friday, attacking two towns in a part of Niger that is already home to tens of thousands of refugees who have fled the terror group’s attacks back in Nigeria. In this file photo taken Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015, Nigerian Soldiers, left, […]

Men hold a banner during a gathering at the Trocadero place, in Paris, Sunday, Jan. 18, 2015 to protest against extremist Islamic group Boko Haram after a large-scale attack in Baga, where as many as 2,000 people were massacred in a raid on January 7, 2015. Cameroon, Chad and Niger have launched a regional bid […]

In this photo taken Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015, people including stranded villagers at a local market after recent violence in surrounding areas at Maiduguri, Nigeria. Islamic extremists are rampaging through villages in northeast Nigeria’s Adamawa state, killing, burning and looting with no troops deployed to protect civilians, fleeing villagers said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Jossy Ola) MAIDUGURI, […]

Boko Haram extremists attacked Maiduguri on on Sunday. (Photo: AP) MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — In fierce fighting Sunday that killed more than 200 combatants, Nigerian troops clashed with Islamic extremists who attacked Maiduguri, the biggest city in northeastern Nigeria, from three fronts. At the same time the insurgents continued scorched-earth attacks on villages some 200 […]

Classic American cars used as collective taxis drive along a street in Havana, Cuba, Friday, Jan. 16, 2015. Tens of thousands more American tourists are expected to flock this year to a country where some five-star hotels don’t have working air-conditioning or hand towels. The Obama administration hopes the new wave of U.S. tourists will […]

A child, at rear, walks through the scene of an explosion in a mobile phone market in Potiskum, Nigeria, Monday Jan. 12, 2015. Two female suicide bombers targeted the busy marketplace on Sunday. (AP Photo/Adamu Adamu) JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Survivors of an assault by Islamic militants that killed hundreds of civilians in Nigeria have described […]