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Still no peace: No reconciliation in sight for Palestine and Israel

Prospects for peace between the Zionist occupier state of Israel and the occupied Palestinian people are more distant than ever. A deadly cycle of...

Motorbike ambulance saves mothers and babies in Kenya: UNFPA

The hardship being felt across the Horn of Africa by the worst drought in 40 years has left many women weak and malnourished. The UN agency dedicated to...

Black-owned company leads delegation on pilgrimage

MECCA, Saudi Arabia—Muslims from communities across the United States recently spent 10 days traveling from Madinah to Mecca to Cairo with Hajj Pros, the...

Colombia VP says she was targeted with roadside bomb

BOGOTA, Colombia—Colombia’s Vice President said on Jan. 10 that her security team found more than seven kilos of explosives buried next to a rural...

Africa and China’s growing alliance and the de-Westernization of the continent

China’s new foreign minister Qin Gang made his first trip abroad January 9-16 to the continent of Africa. His trip comes amid changes in...

President Maduro denounces U.S. policy in Venezuela a ‘failure’

Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro has denounced the U.S. parallel institution policy in his country, calling Washington’s attempt to assault and replace the public institutions of his...

Peru’s judiciary launches inquiry into key officials after deadly protests

Peru’s attorney general has decided to investigate high officials’ handling of recent protests that have seen dozens of people killed and hundreds more injured...

President Macron says France will not apologize to Algeria for colonization

French President Emmanuel Macron once again says he will not “ask forgiveness” from Algeria for French colonization but hopes to continue working toward reconciliation...

Spain drops sedition charge against former Catalan leader

MADRID—A Spanish judge has dropped sedition charges against former Catalan President Carles Puigdemont for his role in the region’s illegal secession push in 2017...

Will South Africa’s president survive ‘Farmgate’ until national elections?

South Africa’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa, an anti-apartheid figure—once suggested as Nelson Mandela’s successor to the presidency—has been mired in a scandal that involves undeclared...