Category: INTERNATIONAL

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 […]

CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — It was a highway robbery but the bandits got more than they bargained for when they stopped a taxi van in Guinea and made off with blood samples that are believed to be infected with the deadly Ebola virus. Authorities publicly appealed on national radio Friday to the unidentified robbers to […]

Saint Nicholas, left, and “Zwarte Piet” of Black Pete greeted children when arriving in the historic city of Gouda, Netherlands, Saturday, Nov. 15, 2014. Black Petes, the traditional black-faced sidekicks of Sinterklaas, the Dutch version of Santa Claus, walked side-by-side with yellow-colored “Cheese Petes” and “cookie Petes,” a nod to the city’s most famous products, […]

This Friday Oct. 31, 2014 image taken from video by Nigeria’s Boko Haram terrorist network, the leader of Nigeria’s Islamic extremist group Boko Haram, center, has denied agreeing to any cease-fire with the government and said Friday more than 200 kidnapped schoolgirls all have converted to Islam and been married off. (AP Photo) MAIDUGURI, Nigeria […]

In this Thursday, July 3, 2014 photo, an elite unit of women Kurdish Peshmerga fighters trains in Sulaimaniyah, 160 miles (260 kilometers) northeast of Baghdad, Iraq. Among the Kurdish fighters defending the Syrian town of Kobani against the IS are thousands of women. In April, Kurdish fighters created all-female combat units that have grown to […]

Dr. Stella Ameyo Adadevoh While many West African countries are struggling with the spread of Ebola, Nigeria has been declared free of the disease by the World Health Organization (WHO) after six weeks without any new cases—a development that is being attributed to one physician and a team of volunteers, according to Reuters. Dr. Stella […]