Africa
Bodies found in Burundi after armed assaults
Horrified residents awoke Saturday to at least 39 dead bodies scattered in the streets of the Burundi capital, Bujumbura, a day after ...Tunisian democracy group collects 2015 Nobel Peace Prize
This year\'s Nobel Peace Prize winners, the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet, collected their award in Norway on Thursday, appealing for international cooperation ...Two suspects identified in California mass shooting
At least 14 people were killed in a gun attack on a holiday party in California, triggering a massive manhunt that ended ...South African appeals court convicts Pistorius of murder
A South African appeals court on Thursday convicted Oscar Pistorius of murder, overturning a lower court\'s conviction of the double-amputee Olympian on ...Despite treatment advances, AIDS stigma lingers in rural South Africa
When Eunice Khanyile opened a soup kitchen in a rural village in South Africa last year to help HIV-positive residents get the ...World leaders in Paris for climate-rescue summit
World leaders launched a whirlwind day of talks in the French capital on Monday aimed at forging an elusive agreement to stave ...At least 12 killed in attack by Ugandan rebels in eastern DR Congo
At least 12 people have been killed in an overnight attack blamed on Ugandan rebels in the restive east of the Democratic ...HIV drug stocks not reaching African patients: report
Efforts to get lifesaving antiretrovial drugs to HIV-positive patients in many sub-Saharan African countries are routinely failing at "the last mile", an ...Paris climate activists plan human chain on global day of action
Activists plan to join arms and form a "human chain" in Paris on Sunday to urge action on global warming, in a ...16,000 children in South Sudan forced into conflict since 2013
Up to 16,000 children have been forced to join the fighting in South Sudan since the start of a civil conflict in ...




