By AFPEx-president Joseph Kabila on Thursday made his first appearance since returning to the Democratic Republic of Congo in Goma, an eastern city seized by the Rwanda-backed M23 militia whose lightning offensive the government accuses him of orches...

By AFP/Selim SAHEB ETTABAThe US Supreme Court handed President Donald Trump a major victory Friday in his immigration crackdown, giving his administration the green light to revoke the legal status of half a million migrants from four Caribbean and L...

By AFPThe cash-strapped United Nations could slash 20 percent of jobs -- or thousands of positions -- in its executive arm under ongoing reform plans, according to an internal memo seen Thursday by AFP."The Secretary-General has set an ambitious targ...

By AFPAvowed misogynist and radical social media influencer Andrew Tate and his brother have been charged with several counts of rape, assault and trafficking, UK prosecutors said Wednesday.The accusations, which date back to between 2012 to 2015, we...

By AFP/Hillary ORINDEA South African court on Thursday sentenced a woman to life in prison for kidnapping and selling her six-year-old daughter, in a case that horrified the country.Joshlin Smith went missing in February last year from her home in Sa...

By AFP/Shaun TANDONThe United States said Wednesday it will refuse visas to foreign officials who block Americans' social media posts, as President Donald Trump's administration wages a new battle over free expression.Secretary of State Marco Rubio -...

By AFP/Anaïs LLobet, Laurent Banguet and Marjorie BoyetA French court on Wednesday gave the maximum 20-year jail term to a surgeon who admitted sexually abusing hundreds of patients, most of them children, but victims, some in tears, expressed disapp...

By AFPAn Algerian court on Monday sentenced three former contenders for the country's presidency to 10 years in jail for corruption, a judicial source said Monday.Businesswoman Saida Neghza, former minister Belkacem Sahli and Abdelhakim Hamadi were a...

By AFPPalestinians living in Gaza "deserve more than survival," the United Nations envoy for the Middle East told the Security Council on Wednesday, as Israel's war there enters its 600th day.Israel stepped up its military offensive in Gaza, ignited...

By AFPPresident Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah repeated calls Wednesday for Germany to pay reparations for its genocide against Namibian tribes as she led the first official commemoration of the atrocity more than 120 years ago.Thousands of indigenous Herero...

By AFPNorth Korea slammed on Tuesday US President Donald Trump's "Golden Dome" missile shield plan as a "very dangerous" threat that could spark nuclear war in space, state media said.Trump announced new details and initial funding for the missile sh...

By AFP/Stuart WilliamsIran on Wednesday executed a man convicted of spying for Israel, in defiance of pleas from his family and activists for his life to be spared after what they described as an unfair trial.Pedram Madani, 41, was hanged in Ghezelhe...