International

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — World music icon Youssou Ndour says he plans to run in Senegal’s presidential election next month, challenging an 85-year-old incumbent whose plans to seek a third term have sparked violent protests. SEE ALSO: African Dictator Propped Up By Coke (As In Coca-Cola) Ndour, who made the announcement late Monday on his […]

Canada’s Vancouver Eastside, where drug dealing, prostitution, and homelessness reign supreme, is known as Vancouver’s “square mile of vice.” This area also houses the city’s sole residential black community, and 70 percent of its residents are aboriginal.  According to the UK’s Daily Mail, the dumping ground for the city’s problems has now become part of a […]

Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Adichie (pictured) told an audience at TED, a conference of “ideas worth sharing” in technology, entertainment, and design made popular by its free video and discussion site, that knowing only a single story of a person or a place is destructive like the one-noted image we have of Africa – hunger, poverty, […]

KINGSTON, Jamaica — On Jamaica’s rutted streets, the complaints have been chronic — home ownership is out of reach for most wage earners, the cost of electricity has skyrocketed, water service regularly fizzles out and decent jobs are scarce. Fed up with chronic hard times, voters in this debt-wracked Caribbean nation on Thursday threw out […]

PARIS (AP) — Doctors Without Borders says that two of its employees in Mogadishu, Somalia’s capital – a Belgian and an Indonesian – have been killed in gunfire that occurred in one of its offices. The aid group said Friday that the exact circumstances of the gunfire a day earlier is not immediately clear. However, […]

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — The center-right party of Jamaica’s youngest prime minister was in a tight race Thursday against the left-leaning party headed by the island’s first female leader in a battle to win control of the government for the next five years. SEE ALSO: Most Overlooked Movies Of 2011 Jamaican elections have turned violent […]

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Attackers threw homemade explosives inside an Islamic school in a predominantly Christian city where some 50 children had gathered for an Arabic class, wounding six pupils and a teacher, authorities said Wednesday. SEE ALSO: Michigan To Take Over Detroit? The rare attack in Nigeria’s oil-rich southern delta comes just days after […]

The United States has promised to help Nigeria track down the people responsible for Sunday’s deadly Christmas bombings, according to Bloomberg News. SEE ALSO: Take That! Walmart Shopper Punches Greeter For Checking Her Receipt

MADALLA, Nigeria (AP) — Women returned to clean the blood from St. Theresa Catholic Church on Monday and one man wept uncontrollably amid its debris as a Nigerian Christian association demanded protection for its churches. At least 35 people died at St. Theresa and dozens more were wounded as radical Muslim militants launched coordinated attacks […]

LONDON (AP) — The loose-knit hacking movement “Anonymous” claimed Sunday to have stolen thousands of credit card numbers and other personal information belonging to clients of U.S.-based security think tank Stratfor. One hacker said the goal was to pilfer funds from individuals’ accounts to give away as Christmas donations, and some victims confirmed unauthorized transactions […]

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI’s Christmas pleas for peace around the world were brutally ignored in Nigeria, where an explosion Sunday claimed by Muslim extremists ripped through a Catholic church during Mass. SEE ALSO: Zuckerberg Has Grown-Up Plans For Facebook Authorities say at least 25 people were killed by the explosion at the […]

JERUSALEM (AP) — A rare clay seal found under Jerusalem’s Old City appears to be linked to religious rituals practiced at the Jewish Temple 2,000 years ago, Israeli archaeologists said Sunday. SEE ALSO: Son Wakes From Coma Before Xmas The coin-sized seal found near the Jewish holy site at the Western Wall bears two Aramaic […]