OGIDI, Nigeria (AP) — Writer Chinua Achebe is being remembered in Nigeria as a fearless writer who bowed to no political pressure.
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria's fighting has uprooted more than half of the country's 530,000 Palestinians — descendants of refugees from a Mideast conflict half a century ago — and their situation is becoming increasingly desperate, the head of a U.N. aid agency said Thursday.