DAKAR, Senegal – A Gambia union leader says a journalist detained by authorities now faces charges in High Court in the West African nation. Gambia Press Union secretary general Saikou Jammeh says Taranga FM Managing Director Alhagie Abdoulie Ceesay faces seven charges, including false publication with “intent to excite disaffection” …

GENEVA – U.N. human rights officials say Sudanese security forces that were allegedly involved in killings, sexual violence and other abuses in Darfur last year have largely gone unpunished. The U.N. Human Rights Office, in a critical new report based on information from a joint U.N.-African Union operation in Darfur, …

BERN, Switzerland – A Swiss official says his country has made headway toward returning some $40 million that was stolen from the Tunisian state and has been sitting in Swiss banks since Tunisia’s longtime regime collapsed in the Arab Spring uprising. Valentin Zellweger, a legal adviser to the Swiss government, …

SALT LAKE CITY – Malachi Bradley was searching for wild mushrooms in eastern Utah when he realized he had wandered too far from the mountain lake where he was hiking with his father and siblings. The 10-year-old boy tried looking for a road to flag down a driver, but the …

WASHINGTON – A man who in April flew a gyrocopter through some of America’s most restricted airspace before landing at the U.S. Capitol has raised about $10,000 to help with his case. Douglas Hughes appeared in federal court in Washington on Thursday as part of his ongoing case. Earlier this …

ANKARA, Turkey – Turkey says its jets have carried out their first airstrikes as part of the U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic State group in Syria. A Foreign Ministry statement on Saturday said the jets began attacking IS targets late Friday across the border in Syria, deemed to be threats …

RICHMOND, Va. – Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell will not have to go to prison while the U.S. Supreme Court considers whether to consider his appeal of his public corruption convictions. The court on Monday overruled a lower court’s decision on McDonnell’s incarceration. McDonnell made a last-ditch plea to the …

As director of the world’s largest Catholic organization focused on the abortion issue (Priests for Life), and of the world’s largest ministry for healing after abortion (Rachel’s Vineyard), I’ve received a lot of inquiries about the letter Pope Francis issued on September 1 expanding the authority of priests to absolve …

ROSEAU, Dominica – A preliminary assessment on the island of Dominica indicates that Tropical Storm Erika caused damage to basic infrastructure alone that amounts to nearly half of the small country’s GDP. Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit said Thursday that officials have estimated that damage to roads and bridges on the …

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – Argentine prosecutors say they’ve detained a man who kept his troubled wife and autistic son locked in a cage by day over at least two years. Prosecutor Alejandro Pellegrini says police found the dirt-floor cell at the house of 66-year-old Eduardo Oviedo in the city of …