Senator Jeanne Shaheen, Democrat of New Hampshire, said the African country has a long history of corruption. The amount paid is far more than recent annual assistance given to it.

An attack on a courthouse in Islamabad was the first to hit Islamabad in more than a decade.

A military official accused the Pakistani Taliban of staging the attack, which took place near a courthouse in Islamabad.

As the vibrantly patterned kente travels out of Africa, a new designation aims to protect its ties to Ghana, where the cloth originated.