BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — A fire that hit a poor Roma settlement in eastern Slovakia killed five people, four of them children, officials said on Thursday. The town hall in Velky Saris said ...

A new World Bank report shows that poverty in Africa may be lower than current estimates suggest and no systematic increase in inequality, given the available data Challenges remain substantial: more ...

According to Buffett, here are 10 things poor people waste money on and what he does instead. Low-Value Investments “The most important investment you can make is in yourself,” Buffett has ...

Peru's capital, home to more than 10 million people, is also the world's second largest city located in a desert, after Cairo. Originally published on doc.afp.com, part of the BLOX Digital Content ...

In the bone-dry hills overlooking Lima, the luxury of running water is just a dream for thousands of Peruvians who get theirs delivered by tanker truck. Peru's capital, home to more than 10 million ...

This is only a partial list of poor actions, and it is being added to daily. 1. Elon Musk, an unelected “Department Head,” has made huge employee cuts throughout government, metaphorically ...

We are all welcome here. That’s true whether we come from Boston or Burundi; choose to partner with a man or a woman; feel trapped in one kind of body and want to be in a different body; are agnostic ...

There has been a vicious war of words between Congo’s president Felix Tshisekedi and the Rwandan leader Paul Kagame – ...

To the Editor: In regard to Catherine Corkery’s op-ed about cryptomining and its effects on a community, one only has to look to North Tonawanda, New York, that had a mining center under dubious ...

Former Gov. Haley Barbour finally said the quiet part out loud. During a recent speech to the Mississippi State University Stennis Institute of Government and Capitol Press Corps, the former two ...

The significant health progress made over the past decade in Central, Eastern, Southern and West Africa—where many countries were on track to ending their AIDS epidemics—is now at risk of being ...