NIgeria

The owner of a used car dealership in Fall River has been sentenced to six months of home confinement and two years of probation for laundering money for romance scammers and other fraudsters.

Amnesty International says Egypt and Nigeria accounted for well over 1,000 of the death sentences announced last year, more than a third of the world's total. The human rights group's latest annual report says 2,466 people in 55 countries were sentenced to death in 2014...

Doctors who survived Ebola in Nigeria are crediting heavy doses of fluids with saving their lives. The World Health Organization today declared Nigeria to be free of Ebola -- a rare victory against the disease that is ravaging West Africa...

Nigeria's leader blames "extremist foreign elements" for the Islamic uprising that has ballooned out of a homegrown religious sect and says his government will "do everything possible" to bring home safely nearly 300 schoolgirls abducted by the extremists.

The U.S. will send a team of experts overseas to help Nigeria deal with the growing crisis involving kidnapped girls. White House spokesman Jay Carney called the abductions horrific and said time is of the essence. Secretary of State John Kerry said the U...