Illegal immigration is one of the problems that have plagued successive governments in Libya since the collapse of the regime of former President Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.This crisis casts a shadow over the neighboring countries, as they were also aff...

By AFPThousands of tiny makeshift shelters hug the road leading north out of Goma, a symptom of the vast humanitarian crisis gripping DR Congo's turbulent east.Since late October, many tens of thousands of people have flocked towards the relative saf...

By AFPAn Afghan man convicted of murder was executed in public on Wednesday, the Taliban said, the first confirmation of such a sentence since the hardline Islamists returned to power."The supreme court was instructed to implement this order of qisas...

By AFPBritons hardest hit by the cost-of-living crisis are also the worst affected by depression, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said on Tuesday.Households are facing inflation at 40-year highs of 11 percent, forcing up the cost of food at...

By AFPHigh-stakes UN biodiversity talks open in Montreal Wednesday, in what is being billed as the "last best chance" to save the planet's species and ecosystems from irreversible human destruction.Delegates from across the world gathered for the Dec...

By AFPAlbania's UK ambassador demanded an apology Wednesday for an anti-migrant "campaign" in right-wing British media following hostile remarks by a top minister.Ethnic-Albanian children are getting bullied in British schools because of the media co...

By AFPRussia was looking to stall the fighting in Ukraine over the winter in order to build up its forces for a renewed assault next year, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said Wednesday.Ukrainian forces have been pushing a counter-offensive in which they...

By AFPLebanon has arrested 185 people suspected of collaborating with enemy state Israel since its economic collapse three years ago left many Lebanese desperate for cash, two security sources told AFP Wednesday.That number has jumped significantly f...

By AFPHonduran police on Tuesday moved en masse into poor urban areas to tackle criminal gangs "head on" after a decree by President Xiomara Castro to temporarily suspend certain rights.The 30-day lifting of constitutional guarantees that began Tuesd...

By AFPRohingya cleric Abdur Rashid still believes children are divine gifts, but life in a Bangladeshi refugee camp with six little mouths to feed has left him and his wife unwilling to accept another heavenly blessing.Earlier this year, his wife Nos...

By AFPA suicide bomber killed a police officer and wounded 10 others in an attack on a police station in Indonesia's West Java province on Wednesday, police said.Police have not yet determined a motive for the attack but Indonesia, the world's bigges...