By AFPBrazil's lower house of Congress approved legislation Tuesday that would limit expanded demarcations of Indigenous lands, which are considered key to protecting the Amazon and its native peoples.The text, passed by the Chamber of Deputies on a...

By AFPPhilippine mother-of-three Stella Sibonga is desperate to end a marriage she never wanted. But divorce in the Catholic-majority country is illegal, and a court annulment takes years.The Philippines is the only place outside the Vatican where di...

By AFPThe Sudanese army has suspended its participation in US- and Saudi-brokered ceasefire talks with its paramilitary foes, a government official told AFP on Wednesday.The army took the decision "because the rebels have never implemented a single o...

By AFPA radio broadcaster was shot dead outside his home in the central Philippines on Wednesday, police said, the latest in a long list of journalists killed in the country.Cresenciano Bunduquin, 50, was killed by motorcycle-riding gunmen in Calapan...

By AFPNorth Korea attempted to launch a spy satellite Wednesday but it crashed into the sea after a rocket failure, with the South Korean military retrieving part of the likely wreckage in a potential intelligence bonanza.North Korea does not have a...

Over the past years, the UAE has launched many local and international environmental awards to instill a culture of sustainability and environmental preservation and to spread awareness about the importance of adopting behaviors that protect the plan...

By AFPTensions remained high in northern Kosovo on Wednesday, as hundreds of ethnic Serbs again gathered outside a town hall after clashing with NATO-led peacekeepers (KFOR) earlier this week.KFOR soldiers formed a ring around the municipal building...

By AFPBritain's biggest business lobby group on Wednesday said it was mulling options, reportedly including bankruptcy, after it was rocked by allegations of sexual harassment by staff.The Confederation of British Industry has been mired in a scandal...

By AFPThe United Arab Emirates has withdrawn from a US-led maritime coalition tasked with securing tense Gulf waterways that are vital to the global oil trade, it said Wednesday.The UAE "withdrew its participation" in the 38-nation Combined Maritime...

By AFPA court in Dresden on Wednesday sentenced a left-wing extremist woman to more than five years in jail for attacking neo-Nazis, with Germany's interior minister warning against "vigilante justice".The principal defendant, identified only as Lina...

A new episode of child sexual abuse by clergymen broke recently in the Midwest US state of Illinois after State Attorney General Kwame Raoul revealed that 1,997 children have been molested by 451 clerics in six catholic dioceses across the state over...