By AFP/Nicolás BIEDERMANDown a narrow street in Villa 31, the oldest of Buenos Aires's informal settlements, Father Ignacio "Nacho" Bagattini celebrates mass in a community center for homeless drug addicts.The legacy of Pope Francis, who famously exh...

By AFPOutbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases such as measles, meningitis, and yellow fever are on the rise globally amid misinformation and cuts to international aid, the United Nations and the Gavi vaccine alliance warned Wednesday."Vaccines have...

By AFP/Claire Gounon and Aysha SafiIn March 2001, the Taliban shocked the world by dynamiting the giant Buddhas of Bamiyan. Two decades later, they are back in power and claim to be making strides to preserve Afghanistan's millennia-old heritage, inc...

By AFPA French court ruled that a Muslim school could continue to receive state subsidies after local authorities in 2023 cut funding over alleged "serious breaches" of teaching rules, the court and its management said.Private schools can receive sta...

By AFP/Issam AHMEDPresident Donald Trump's administration on Tuesday announced plans to remove synthetic dyes from the US food supply, marking a rare point of bipartisan convergence in an otherwise sharply divided political climate.Health Secretary R...

By AFP/Charlotte CAUSITFrom cancer cures to climate change, President Donald Trump's administration has upended the American research landscape, threatening the United States' standing as a global science leader and sowing fear over jobs and funding....

By AFP/Dylan GAMBATilahun Wale not only lost his right foot to leprosy -- a disease that still affects thousands in Ethiopia -- he also lost his family."My family abandoned me. They blocked my number and refused to speak to me," said Tilahun, 46, a f...

By AFPAuthorities in the Dominican Republic have launched a hunt for undocumented migrants in hospitals, arresting pregnant women and mothers with newborns in a crackdown on arrivals from neighboring Haiti.Eighty-seven women and 48 children were arre...

By AFPUS Attorney General Pam Bondi hosted the opening meeting of an "anti-Christian bias" task force Tuesday, as the government pressed federal workers to inform on work colleagues engaging in discriminatory behavior.Although the United States has t...

By AFP/Ruth EglashA desk, paint palette and easel stand in the shadows as the spotlight falls on the actor playing German-Jewish artist Leo Haas, who risked his life to record Holocaust atrocities.The immersive one-man play in a tiny theatre at Yad V...

By AFPUS pharmacy chain Walgreens has agreed to pay up to $350 million in a settlement with federal authorities over allegedly invalid prescriptions it filled, and sought payment for under health care programs.Walgreens was said to have "illegally fi...

By AFP/Herika MartinezIn frontier soup kitchens and shelters, Francis is remembered as the 'Pope of migrants' -- a steadfast champion who offered spiritual support during perilous escapes from poverty, violence and oppression.Stranded a stone's throw...