By AFP/Laure Al KhouryOn a mountain slope in south Lebanon, agricultural worker Assaad al-Taqi is busy picking olives, undeterred by the roar of Israeli warplanes overhead.This year, he is collecting the harvest against the backdrop of the raging Isr...

By AFPAbdelrahman Abu Anza's family home in war-ravaged Gaza's south has been reduced to rubble, which the Palestinian man is now using to build a shelter to protect from the winter cold.Israeli bombardment in more than 13 months of war has left "mor...

By AFP/Louis Baudoin-LaarmanIn the crowded Qalandia refugee camp, UNRWA's training centre is an island of calm where young people from the occupied West Bank master trades, but a recent Israeli ban on all cooperation with the UN agency has left the c...

By AFP/Sahar Al AttarAs winter descends on Gaza's tent cities, emergency housing made from mushrooms could keep out the cold -- just one of several sustainable, home-grown innovations put forward by Arab designers at an expo in Dubai.Lightweight, war...

By AFP/Ahikam Seri with Ruth EglashAcross northern Israel's lush, green nature reserves, the ecological toll of the war between Israel and Hezbollah is laid bare: wild boar hit by shrapnel, trees reduced to ashes and swathes of charred vegetation.In...

By AFP/Paul RicardNews outlets have begun quitting X, formerly Twitter, once a favourite of global media but now accused of enabling the spread of disinformation under its owner, president-elect Donald Trump ally Elon Musk.Citing a "harsh and extreme...

By AFP/Bahira AminThe tale of a distinctly Palestinian road trip -- through refugee camps and Israeli checkpoints -- takes centre stage in director Rashid Masharawi's latest film, which debuted at this year's Cairo International Film Festival."It's a...

By AFP/Joseph BoyleTechnology firms are ceaselessly promoting new AI products, but climate activist Sage Lenier says AI is useless, unsustainable and has given the industry an existential problem."AI has no benefit to society," she told AFP on the si...

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...