Africa

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• North America's natural history

  Every year, residents of North America shell out Canadian and U.S. dollars, Mexican pesos and so forth to hop on planes or cruise ships to explore the wonders of South America, Europe, Africa , Asia and Oceania, in search of spectacular natural landscape   Read more »

• Africa, Asia see boom in priests as Europe withers

  (AP) -- The number of Catholic priests in Africa and Asia has shot up over the past decade while decreasing in Europe, mirroring trends in the numbers of Catholic faithful that helped lead to the election of Pope Francis as the first non-European pope in   Read more »

• Authorities: 42 dead in Nigeria extremist attacks

  (AP) -- Coordinated attacks by Islamic extremists armed with heavy machine guns killed at least 42 people in northeast Nigeria, authorities said Tuesday, the latest in a string of increasingly bloody attacks threatening peace in Africa's most populous na   Read more »

• MasterCard 1Q profit rises, but economy 'choppy'

  (AP) -- Payments processor MasterCard Inc. said that its profit and revenue rose in the first quarter as card users spent more. Profit beat the forecasts of Wall Street analysts, though revenue missed slightly and the company's stock fell in midday tradi   Read more »

• FDA device will screen for fake medicines overseas

  (AP) -- U.S. health officials are making a high-tech screening device available in Africa to help combat counterfeit malaria pills in hopes that the technology may eventually be used worldwide.The Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday a U.S. develo   Read more »

Around the web

• Smithsonian Conservatory Rescuing Exotic Animals From Extinction

  you see African cheetahs, Chinese red pandas, Micronesian kingfishers and hooded cranes, you might think you’re in the wilds of Africa or Asia. Watch a kingfisher show off fishing skills. But in rural northern Virginia, little more than an hour from Washington, 59 m ago from ABC News Read more »

• Obama to Travel to Africa

  Obama and his wife, Michelle, will travel to Africa next month: Statement by the Press Secretary on the President’s Travel to Africa President Obama and the First Lady look forward to traveling to Senegal, South Africa, and Tanzania from June 26 - July 3. 4:30 PM from The Weekly Standard Read more »

• Africa: Facts On U.S. Support for International Religious Freedom

  The Department of State, our missions abroad, and especially the Office of International Religious Freedom in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, leverage the various tools of the U.S. Government to promote and protect religious liberty aroun 4:13 PM from AllAfrica.com Read more »

• Africa: International Religious Freedom Report 2012 Executive Summary

  Foremost among the rights Americans hold sacred is the freedom to worship as we choose... we also remember that religious liberty is not just an American right; it is a universal human right to be protected here at home and across the globe. This freedom i 4:11 PM from AllAfrica.com Read more »

• 32.4 Million People Were Displaced in 2012 Due to Climate and Weather Events

  and in Nigeria, 6.1 million were displaced. Over the past five years, 81% of global displacement occurred in Asia. But in 2012, Africa had a record high for the region, with 8.2 million people displaced – over four times more than any of the previous four 4:04 PM from Inhabitat Read more »