Category: INTERNATIONAL

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 […]

MAPUTO, Mozambique (AP) — Mozambique’s government declared three days of mourning starting Monday after 69 people died from drinking contaminated traditional beer at a funeral over the weekend. Northeast Tete province Health, Women and Social Welfare Director Paula Bernardo said Monday that 196 others have been admitted to hospitals there. “People flocked to the hospital, […]

PARIS (AP) — The French Interior Ministry says Paris rally for unity against terrorism is the largest demonstration in France’s history. Calling the rally “unprecedented,” the ministry says the demonstrators are so numerous they spread beyond the official march route, making them impossible to count. French media estimate up to 3 million are taking part, more […]

A note in French reading, “Ahmed, police officer, died for France” is placed among flowers arranged at a makeshift memorial near the offices of French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris, Saturday, Jan. 10, 2015. France’s government urged the nation to remain vigilant Saturday, as thousands of security forces try to thwart new attacks and […]

In this Thursday Nov. 27, 2014 photo, children displaced after attacks by Boko Haram, play in the camp of internal displaced people, in Yola, Nigeria. Seven children have been reunited with parents lost in the chaos of attacks in Nigeria’s northeastern Islamic insurgency but hundreds more remain alone, officials say of youngsters who have no […]

A security officer directs released hostages after they stormed a kosher market to end a hostage situation, Paris, Friday, Jan. 9, 2015. Explosions and gunshots were heard as police forces stormed a kosher grocery in Paris where a gunman was holding at least five people hostage. (AP Photo/Michel Euler) PARIS (AP) — With explosions and […]

In this combination photo provided by the Paris Police Prefecture, Amedy Coulibaly, left, and Hayet Boumddiene, two suspects named by police as accomplices in a kosher market attack on the eastern edges of Paris on Friday, Jan. 9, 2015. A police official says the man who has taken at least five people hostage in a […]

In this Thursday, July 18, 2013, file photo, students from the Melpark Primary School in Johannesburg listen to the history of former president Nelson Mandela as they celebrate the 95th birthday of Mandela during their school assembly. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell, File) JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africans are celebrating news that 76 percent of high school […]

In this Thursday, Nov. 20, 2014 file photo, an MSF Ebola heath worker is sprayed as he leaves the contaminated zone at the Ebola treatment centre in Gueckedou, Guinea. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, FILE) GUECKEDOU, Guinea (AP) — West Africa’s fight to contain Ebola has hampered the campaign against malaria, a preventable and treatable disease that […]

In this photo taken Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2014. Zahra’u Babangida, a 13 year-old girl arrested with explosives strapped to her body in Kano on Dec. 10, 2014. following a double suicide bombing, seen at the police headquarters in Kano, Nigeria. A 13-year-old says her father gave her to Boko Haram extremists and that she was […]