By AFP/Yuriy DYACHYSHYN with Lea DAUPLEAll Natalia has for Valentine's Day is the grave of her husband, Vassyl, a Ukrainian soldier killed at the front and now buried in the western city of Lviv.That and a purple book of poems she clutches tightly in...

By AFP/Beiyi SEOWUS President Donald Trump inked plans Thursday for sweeping "reciprocal tariffs" that could hit both allies and competitors, in a dramatic escalation of an international trade war that economists warn could fuel inflation at home.Sin...

By AFP/Bahira AMINFor the first time in nearly two years of war, soup kitchens in famine-stricken Sudan are being forced to turn people away, with US President Donald Trump's aid freeze gutting the life-saving schemes."People will die because of thes...

By AFPThe United Nations envoy for Syria on Wednesday called on its new authorities to prevent a "cycle of retribution and revenge" after the overthrow of the brutal rule of Bashar al-Assad.At a Security Council meeting, Geir Pedersen spoke of worryi...

By AFP/Hazel WARDAs excitement swept through the Syrian community after Bashar al-Assad's overthrow, businesses in Turkey that rely on them for labour began quickly crunching the numbers."The Syrians have made a big contribution to the textile sector...

By AFP/Carla DIAZFlorentina Loayza was 19 and mother to an infant when she was sterilized by agents of the Peruvian government, against her will.Decades later, the 46-year-old Indigenous woman is still fighting for an apology and reparations along wi...

By AFPA Swedish court on Tuesday sentenced a 52-year-old woman to 12 years in prison on genocide charges, in the country's first court case over crimes by the Islamic State group against the Yazidi minority.Accused of keeping Yazidi women and childre...

By AFP/Khaled SoubeihIn a centuries-old monastery on a rocky hill north of Damascus, friends of missing Italian priest Paolo Dall'Oglio carry on his legacy, hopeful Bashar al-Assad's ouster might help reveal the Jesuit's fate."We want to know if Fath...

By AFPEurope's rights court on Tuesday condemned Russia over "a coordinated effort to suppress dissent" inside the country over its full-scale invasion of Ukraine launched in February 2022.The Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights ruled tha...

By AFP/Ara EugenioIn her bid to convince lawmakers to legalise divorce, Filipina fruit vendor Avelina Anuran has publicly testified about the abuse she said she regularly endured at the hands of her husband.She also keeps a copy of the medical certif...

By AFP/Tommy Wang with Anuj ChopraA deluge of disinformation about a flu-like virus called HMPV is stoking anti-China sentiment across Asia and spurring unfounded concerns of renewed lockdowns, despite experts dismissing comparisons with the Covid-19...

By AFPShares in Chinese automaker BYD jumped on Tuesday after it unveiled plans to unroll advanced self-driving technology on nearly all its cars, including budget models priced below $10,000.The company also said it would integrate AI startup Deepse...