She was a teenage mother in Detroit. Now she’s a Ghanaian ‘Queen’
Kennedy Johnson was 15 years old when she gave birth to a baby girl in a Detroit foster home for teen moms, in February 1996. Twenty-five years later, when Johnson…
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Brazil’s Lula undergoes brain surgery, stable in ICU
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva underwent surgery in Sao Paulo to drain a bleed on his brain linked to a fall at home in October, a medical note…
Netanyahu takes the stand in his corruption trial for the first time
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took the witness for the first time on Tuesday in his long-running corruption trial to give testimony that will likely force him to juggle between…
China’s maritime movements around Taiwan are largest in decades, Taipei says
China has fielded its largest regional maritime deployment in decades, Taiwan’s Defense Ministry said Tuesday, as it monitors what it says is a surge of Chinese military activities in the…
CNN goes inside Syria’s ‘slaughterhouse’ prison as desperate families look for missing loved ones
As Syrians rejoiced across the country this week, many began the frantic search for missing loved ones who had been forcibly disappeared under Bashar al-Assad’s brutal dictatorship. Crowds have descended…
A mass animal sacrifice festival is underway in Nepal. Activists say it needs to stop
Animal rights activists have urged the Nepali government to stop what they’ve called “an appalling bloodbath” after they claimed thousands of animals were killed as part of a festival held…
Nauru agrees to give Australia veto rights overpacts with third nations including China
Australia announced a multimillion-dollar agreement with Nauru on Monday that gives Canberra a veto right over a range of pacts the tiny Pacific atoll might want to enter with third…
Rebel group claims to have taken control of Myanmar’s border with Bangladesh in grinding civil war
One of the most powerful ethnic minority armed groups battling Myanmar’s army has claimed the capture of the last army outpost in the strategic western town of Maungdaw, gaining full…
Haiti gang massacre leaves over 180 dead after Voodoo accusations, say UN and rights groups
Haiti’s government says the country’s gangs have crossed a “red line” after allegedly killing over 180 people over the weekend, after a gang leader reportedly blamed Voodoo adherents for his…
The Assad regime ruled Syria for 50 years. Here’s how it fell in less than two weeks
At the historic Umayyad Mosque in the heart of Damascus, a red, white, black and green flag flies. On the other side of the Syrian capital, former Syrian President Bashar…