By AFPUS President Donald Trump's administration cut cancer research funding by 31 percent in the first three months of 2025 compared to the same period last year, according to a Senate report released Tuesday that accuses the White House of waging a...

By AFP/Nina LARSONRaging conflicts, disasters and worsening climate change displaced tens of millions of people within their own countries last year, a new record, monitors said Tuesday.An unprecedented 83.4 million internally displaced people (IDPs)...

By AFP/Celine BRUNEAUA Paris court on Tuesday handed French cinema icon Gerard Depardieu an 18-month suspended sentence after convicting him of sexually assaulting two women on a film set in 2021.The court also ordered that Depardieu, who was not pre...

By AFP/Léa NKAMLEUN FOSSOBeneath yellow fruit, hidden within the roots of the iboga plant in the forests of Gabon, lies a sacred treasure that the country is keen to make the most of.For centuries, religious devotees have eaten it -- a psychotropic s...

By AFPAlmost half a million children in Somalia face severe malnourishment and are at risk of dying from hunger, an NGO warned Monday, just as international aid operations are scaled back.The Horn of Africa nation is one of the world's poorest, endur...

By AFP/Moisés ÁVILAA renewed push in Texas to ban Chinese and other non-citizens from purchasing property is almost across the finish line, prompting protests by opponents who claim the measure will stoke discrimination against minorities.The legisla...

By AFPSarcophagus lids, a Greco-Roman portrait and fragments of what is believed to be a temple of Queen Hatshepsut were among 25 rare artefacts returned to Egypt from the United States, the Egyptian antiquities ministry said Monday.The pieces -- spa...

By AFP/Hector VelascoWhen they saw men with arrows and machetes bearing down on them, Daniel Braun and other Mennonites living in the Peruvian Amazon fled across rice paddies, some of their barns ablaze behind them.In Masisea, a remote settlement nea...

By AFPTaliban authorities have arrested 14 people in northern Afghanistan for playing musical instruments and singing, activities they restricted since taking power, provincial police said on Saturday.The Taliban government has steadily imposed laws...

By AFP/Kamal TahaShahd Tahrawi was wounded in an Israeli strike on Gaza, Hossam Abd al-Rahman suffered burns in an explosion in Iraq and bombardment in Yemen has left Mohammed Zakaria in need of multiple surgeries.They all met at the charitable Al-Mo...

By AFP/Francois BeckerIsrael may ban international media from entering Gaza, but the war in the Palestinian territory will feature at the Cannes film festival this year, including in a documentary whose protagonist was killed in an Israeli strike.Fat...

By AFP/Rose TROUP BUCHANANJoyce Lokonyi sits on an upturned bucket, fingers weaving palm fronds as the wind pulls her dress to expose the stump of her amputated foot, lost to a little-known disease ravaging Kenya's poorest county.Mycetoma is a fungal...