Lawsuit: Apple, Microsoft profit from child cobalt miners
WASHINGTON — A new lawsuit accuses several of the world's largest technology firms of knowingly profiting from children laboring under brutal conditio...
Egypt’s el-Sissi says militias hold Libyan gov’t ‘hostage’
CAIRO — Libya’s U.N.-supported government is held hostage by “armed and terrorist militias” in the capital, Tripoli, Egypt’s leader said Sunday.
Tiger Woods caps comeback year by leading emotional team win
MELBOURNE, Australia — The emotions poured out of Tiger Woods, just like they did at Augusta National in the spring, except this felt different.
Tiger Woods and US team rally to win Presidents Cup again
MELBOURNE, Australia — High emotions, fierce hugs from Tiger Woods, this time as a winner both ways in the Presidents Cup.
Fighting rages near Libya’s capital amid push by rebel army
CAIRO — Just two days after rebel Libyan commander Khalifa Hifter declared a “final" and decisive battle for the capital Tripoli, heavy fighting raged...
Houses of worship attacked with deadly frequency in 2019
On Dec. 1, a band of assailants opened fire on worshippers at a small-town Protestant church in Burkina Faso, an impoverished West African country whe...
International clings to 2-point lead in Presidents Cup
MELBOURNE, Australia — The International team has the lead going into the final day of the Presidents Cup for the first time in 16 years, and it has a...
UN Libya migrant center plagued with crowding, TB, food cuts
TRIPOLI, Libya — The United Nations center in Libya was opened as an “alternative to detention,” a last, safe stop for migrants before they were reset...
6-story building collapses in Nairobi; at least 4 killed
NAIROBI, Kenya — A six-story residential building collapsed Friday in Kenya's capital, officials said, with at least four people killed and others tra...
Italian priest, and 2 Kenyan men who say he’s their father
NAIROBI — Steven Lacchin grew up a fatherless boy, but he knew some very basic facts about the man who was his father.
As 58 migrants drown off Africa, a call to stop smugglers
NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania — The drowning of 58 migrants in the Atlantic Ocean off Mauritania sent despair through tiny Gambia on Thursday while some dema...
UN says 58 migrants dead as boat capsizes off Mauritania
DAKAR, Senegal — At least 58 people are dead after a boat carrying dozens of migrants capsized in the Atlantic Ocean off the West African nation of Ma...
Algeria: 2 ex-ministers face groundbreaking corruption trial
ALGIERS, Algeria — Two former Algerian prime ministers went on trial Wednesday on corruption charges, in the most high-profile act of transparency and...
Zimbabwe’s Mugabe left behind $10 million, some houses
HARARE, Zimbabwe — The wealth of Zimbabwe’s former longtime president Robert Mugabe was long a mystery. Now the first official list of assets to be ma...
Correction: Burkina Faso-Church Attacked story
In a story Dec. 2 about an attack in Burkina Faso, The Associated Press reported erroneously that an attack on a convoy carrying employees of a mining...
Tunisian president vows safer roads after 2 deadly crashes
TUNIS, Tunisia — Tunisia’s president is promising to improve his country’s poor road safety record after 26 people were killed in a bus crash — and th...
24 killed in Tunisia when bus plummets off hill
TUNIS, Tunisia — A bus plummeted off a hill in Tunisia on Sunday morning, killing 24 passengers who were on an excursion in the country’s north, gover...
Namibia’s president wins another term but support drops
WINDHOEK, Namibia — Namibia’s president won another term Saturday but the longtime ruling party lost its powerful two-thirds majority in its most chal...
NY team helping immigrant runners realize American dream
NEW YORK — A no-name entrant at this month’s New York City Marathon — literally, he didn’t even qualify to have his name printed on his bib — Girma Be...
Complacency a concern as AIDS treatment improves in Africa
KAMPALA, Uganda — AIDS has no cure. HIV is still here. But some people are forgetting that.
Black Friday frenzy goes global - and not everyone’s happy
PARIS — People don’t celebrate Thanksgiving in France, or Russia, or South Africa - but they do shop on Black Friday.
France: Military helicopters in Mali crash not under fire
PARIS — France’s army chief of staff is dismissing an Islamic State group affiliate’s claim that it caused a helicopter collision in Mali that killed ...
Islamic State group affiliate claims French crash in Mali
PARIS — An Islamic State group affiliate claimed responsibility Thursday for a helicopter collision that killed 13 French soldiers earlier this week i...
Rebel attacks in eastern Congo kill several Ebola responders
BENI, Congo — Rebels killed four Ebola response workers in an overnight ambush in eastern Congo, the World Health Organization said Thursday, warning ...
UN expert: Zimbabwe hunger ‘shocking’ for country not at war
HARARE, Zimbabwe — Zimbabwe is on the brink of man-made starvation and the number of people needing help is “shocking” for a country not in conflict, ...
East Africa struggles with heavy rains, with more to come
NAIROBI, Kenya — Flash flooding has hit the small but strategic East African nation of Djibouti, where the government and United Nations said the equi...
Study: For babies born with HIV, start treatment right away
WASHINGTON — When babies are born with HIV, starting treatment within hours to days is better than waiting even the few weeks to months that’s the nor...
UN: South Sudan recruits new force, contrary to peace deal
JOHANNESBURG — A new report says South Sudan’s National Security Service has recruited a force of 10,000 fighters in President Salva Kiir’s ethnic str...
Namibia votes as ruling party faces unprecedented challenge
JOHANNESBURG — Polls are opening in Namibia, where the ruling party faces its biggest challenge since independence nearly three decades ago.
Ebola responders on ‘lockdown’ after Congo city’s unrest
JOHANNESBURG — The World Health Organization says Ebola responders are on lockdown in the eastern Congo city of Beni after angry residents attacked a ...