By UN NewsMexican actor, producer and director Diego Luna took a break from the big screen on Thursday to highlight the dangers faced by journalists in his country and beyond, condemning murders of reporters everywhere as “a scandal”.Speaking to jour...

By AFP/Akshata KapoorArranging fruit crates in a market on the western edge of Amsterdam on Thursday, Mohamed Errakil said the Dutch government's rhetoric a week after the city was shaken by anti-Israeli attacks could encourage discrimination."We're...

By AFPIsrael's warfare in Gaza is consistent with the characteristics of genocide, a special UN committee said Thursday, as a Human Rights Watch report said Israel's displacement of Gazans amounts to a "crime against humanity".Israel said HRW's claim...

By UN News/Julia FoxenCivic space in the Islamic Republic of Iran is shrinking, as human rights defenders and journalists continue to be targeted and charged for “vaguely defined national security offences”, Mai Sato, the independent UN expert on the...

By AFP/Kamal TahaWhen war erupted in Gaza, Palestinian artists had only one way to share their work expressing the harrowing reality of the conflict: having it smuggled out of the besieged territory.For six months, they handed over paintings and othe...

By AFP/Romain ColasArt teacher Daniil Klyuka believes the headmistress of the provincial Russian school where he worked reported him for doodling horns on pictures of officials in a newspaper.The 28-year-old was later sentenced to 20 years in jail.Hi...

By AFP/Robbie Corey-Boulet and Sofiane AlsaarArab and Muslim leaders demanded on Monday that Israel withdraw from occupied Palestinian territories as a precondition for regional peace, while denouncing "shocking" Israeli crimes in war-ravaged Gaza.A...

By AFP/Emilie BeraudIn Eritrea, one of the world's most repressive countries, a tiny independent radio station broadcasting from a Paris apartment has become a beacon of hope.Transmitting trusted news for the past 15 years from a studio tucked away i...

By AFPThe Alloush family would have been getting ready for breakfast on Sunday morning when an Israeli strike hit their home in northern Gaza, according to a distraught relative.The blast blew dozens of Palestinians into pieces, Abdullah al-Najjar sa...

By AFP/Nina LarsonThe UN on Friday condemned the staggering number of civilians killed in Israel's war in Gaza, with women and children comprising nearly 70 percent of the thousands of fatalities it had managed to verify.In a fresh report, slammed by...

By AFP/Mahmoud ZayyatRescuers did not expect to find two-year-old Ali Khalifeh alive after an Israeli strike on southern Lebanon killed his entire family and left him trapped under the rubble for 14 hours.Amputated, bandaged and hooked to a respirato...

By AFPPalestinians in Gaza on Wednesday want Donald Trump, who won the US election, to end the war between Israel and Hamas that has devastated their territory, although many worry he will serve Israel's interests.The conflict sparked by Hamas's Octo...