By AFPSpain's Canary Islands feel "abandoned" as irregular migrant arrivals smash records and the political class lacks "solidarity", the region's leader said in an interview published on Monday.Reception centres in the Atlantic archipelago are strai...

By AFP/Eric RANDOLPHActivist Maria Sarungi Tsehai said Monday she was certain the Tanzanian government was behind her abduction the day before in Nairobi that was only foiled after a rapid intervention by rights groups.Sarungi Tsehai is a well-known...

By UN NewsThe UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk highlighted the critical role of human rights defenders in today's tumultuous global landscape in a speech on Monday to Wilton Park, the executive agency of the United Kingdom’s Foreign...

By AFPA worsening crackdown on independent media by Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega's government saw 46 journalists forced into exile and several arrested last year, a Costa Rica-based NGO reported Monday."In the last months of 2024, the governmen...

By AFP/Layal Abou RahalLebanese President Joseph Aoun on Monday picked international jurist Nawaf Salam to form a government to pull the war-scarred country out of economic crisis.A majority of Lebanese lawmakers endorsed Salam, the presiding judge a...

By AFP/Ruth EGLASHIsrael's far-right extremist Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Monday vowed to oppose any deal to end the Gaza war, while a senior Palestinian official said "significant progress" had been made in negotiations in Doha.Since early...

By AFP/Esteban ROJAS with Mariette LE ROUXVenezuelans protesting President Nicolas Maduro's return to power for a highly contested third term this week said they did not want a "Cuban-style dictatorship."But analysts say Maduro's methods borrow more...

By AFP/Robbie COREY-BOULET and Sofiane ALSAARSaudi Arabia on Sunday called for the lifting of sanctions on Syria after meetings with top diplomats from the Middle East and Europe that focused on the war-ravaged country's future.The Gulf kingdom, the...

By AFPNobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai urged Muslim leaders on Sunday not to legitimise the Afghan Taliban government and to "show true leadership" over their assault on women's rights."Do not legitimise them," she said at a summit focused...

By AFPMexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Friday officially launched a campaign to crack down on the number of weapons on the country's violence-wracked streets.The plan, called "Yes to Disarmament, Yes to Peace," will offer cash to those who anon...

By AFP/Agnès PEDREROAs Darfur faces the threat of famine, the Doctors Without Borders (MSF) charity chief has called for the war-ravaged Sudanese region to be flooded with food.Sudan has been torn apart and pushed towards famine by the war that erupt...

By AFP/Alexander HOLECEK with Jastinder KHERAThe far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party set out a radical programme on Saturday at a party congress ahead of next month's snap general election as thousands of protesters took to the streets to v...