By AFPMoroccan and Algerian representatives to the United Nations sparred over the fate of Western Sahara on Tuesday, with Algiers calling for the revival of a long-stalled referendum on the fate of the former Spanish colony."We Algerians have chosen...

By AFPViolent crime is on the rise in the US capital, where a 28-percent uptick in homicides this year has left researchers perplexed and politicians pointing fingers.And while Washington is still a far cry from its days as the "murder capital" of th...

By AFPIndia has reimposed an internet ban on restive Manipur state after violent protests erupted following the circulation of photographs of two dead students killed during the months-long conflict, officials said.More than 150 people have been kill...

By AFPUS presidential hopefuls prepared Wednesday for the second 2024 Republican primary debate, with runaway frontrunner Donald Trump once again reducing the event to a sideshow after refusing to take part.A month after he snubbed the first showdown...

By AFPAzerbaijan said on Wednesday that 192 of its soldiers and one civilian died in its lightning offensive last week against ethnic Armenian separatists in the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave.The Azerbaijani health ministry said that more than 500 Azerbai...

By AFPAt least eight people died and two were missing in Mexico after heavy rain turned a mountain stream into a torrent of muddy floodwater that swept away villagers, authorities said Monday.The bodies of some victims were reported to have been foun...

By AFPStanding in the vast windswept plains of the Kazakh steppe, miner Vladimir Khaniev stoically recalled the explosion that left him permanently disabled."I heard a bang and the blast threw me off my feet and I lost consciousness," he told AFP.Ove...

By AFPSaudi Arabia on Tuesday condemned an attack on its territory that killed two Bahraini military personnel near the border with war-torn Yemen.Bahrain's military said late Monday that one officer and one enlisted soldier had been killed in what i...

By AFPThousands more refugees fled Nagorno-Karabakh on Tuesday as officials in the self-proclaimed republic said a fuel depot explosion the previous day had killed 20 people.The Armenian government has warned of possible "ethnic cleansing" by Azerbai...

By AFPUK interior minister Suella Braverman was on Tuesday to question whether the United Nations Refugee Convention was "fit for our modern age" during a keynote speech at a US think-tank in Washington.The speech at the centre-right American Enterpr...

By AFPSaudi Arabia, which is in US-brokered talks with Israel to normalise relations, on Tuesday sent a delegation to the occupied West Bank for the first time in three decades.The delegation led by the kingdom's non-resident ambassador to the Palest...

By AFPArmenia prepared Monday to welcome a new flood of Nagorno-Karabakh refugees while the leaders of Azerbaijan and ally Turkey were set to hold a celebratory summit marking Baku's victory over the rebel enclave.And as Armenian Prime Minister Nikol...