Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu agree in New York to work together to fully enforce the latest sanctions on North Korea.
Much more than economic theory and cash aid is required to create prosperity and make life tolerable for millions in poorer areas.
Irma, which flattened some Caribbean islands and enveloped nearly all of Florida in its fury, no longer exists. The open Atlantic's most powerful hurricane on record finally sputtered out as an ordinary rainstorm over Ohio and Indiana. Irma's confirmed death toll is 61 and still ...
One of New York City's latest residents is young, physically fit and wildly popular. The Angolan colobus (KAHL'-uh-buhs) monkey was born in August at the Wildlife Conservation Society's Bronx Zoo and scores high on the cuteness scale. The baby, whose gender is not yet known, is ...
The United Nations called Monday for the immediate release of the most vulnerable migrants held in Libya, many of whom have been subjected to appalling human rights abuses including "extreme violence." Libya has plunged into chaos since the overthrow of longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi in ...
Foreign Minister Taro Kono is scheduled to visit Africa for five days starting Wednesday to attend a two-day ministerial meeting of a Tokyo-led African development conference in the capital of Mozambique, his ministry said Monday. After joining the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) ...
Kenya is to launch a bid to host the IAAF World Athletics Championships in 2023 after successfully staging two other international competitions in the last 10 years. No African nation has ever staged the sport's flagship event, but Kenyan sports minister Hassan Wario said Kenya ...
The skull of an infant ape buried by a volcano 13 million years ago has preserved intriguing clues about the ancestor humans shared with apes — including a likely African origin, scientists said Wednesday. A previously unknown creature that shared an extended family with the ...
Spanish police have found 30 Moroccan and Algerian migrants, 10 of them minors, hidden in fairground vehicles leaving the Spanish territory of Ceuta after an annual festival, they said Tuesday. Agents used heartbeat detectors and dogs to locate the migrants who had hidden anywhere they ...
I decided it was time to find out about the true state of scholarship in Japan pertaining to Africans and the African diaspora, and the people behind it.
AIDS claimed a million lives in 2016, almost half the 2005 toll that marked the peak of the deadly epidemic, said a U.N. report Thursday proclaiming "the scales have tipped. Not only are new HIV infections and deaths declining, but more people than ever are ...
Researchers have long believed that humans split from apes some 5 million years ago in Africa, but a study Monday suggests it happened in Europe far earlier than that. Just where the last common ancestor between chimps — our closest relatives — and humans existed ...
