By AFPAfghan universities reopened on Monday after a winter break, but only men returned to class with a "heartbreaking" ban by the Taliban authorities on women in higher education still in force.The university ban is one of several restrictions impo...

By AFPTaking to the streets to make your voice heard on International Women's Day is a right taken for granted in most countries. Not in Cuba.Three activists who sought to obtain permission for demonstrations in different parts of the communist-run i...

By AFPBritain's Conservative government is expected to present on Tuesday a new bill providing for the detention and swift deportation of asylum seekers who illegally enter the country via small boats, according to media reports.Despite Brexit-relate...

By AFPFrench trade unions are heading for what is expected to be a decisive showdown with President Emmanuel Macron over pension reform, with massive strikes from Tuesday aiming to bring the country "to a standstill".After five separate days of prote...

By AFPFrom the opera star who went on stage smothered in diamonds to a young widow left penniless with a small child in 19th-century Britain, a new wave of "herstories" are spotlighting female voices ignored or even erased by history.The UK's Royal O...

By AFPMore than a year after the Ukrainian military flooded his village to halt Russia's lightning march on Kyiv, Ivan Kukuruza's basement is still submerged and his patience is running out.Authorities sacrificed his hamlet of Demydiv, 35 kilometres...

By AFPA suicide bomber killed nine police officers and wounded 16 others on Mondayin an attack on their truck in southwestern Pakistan, officials said."The suicide bomber was riding a motorbike and hit the truck from behind," senior police official A...

Global warming is having a significant impact on all aspects of the environment; ice sheets are melting, plants and trees are blooming earlier, and heat waves are becoming more intense.The rapid rise of sea levels is among the effects of global clima...