By AFPIn past years Mohammed Haroun readily found work on Sudanese farms but this year he is left empty-handed as agribusinesses, starved of cash by fighting in Sudan, leave their land fallow.Like hundreds of farm labourers from across Sudan, Haroun...

By AFPAt least 45 bags with human remains were found in a ravine in the western Mexican state of Jalisco during a search for eight people reported missing last week, local authorities said Thursday."Forty-five bags with human remains have been extrac...

By AFPAt least 54 African Union peacekeepers were killed when militants attacked a base housing Ugandan units in Somalia last week, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said."We discovered the lifeless bodies of 54 fallen soldiers, including a commander...

By AFPDesperate relatives searched Sunday for loved ones missing after India's worst train disaster in decades, and the death toll was expected to climb above 288 as authorities searched for clues to the cause.Debris was piled high at the site of Fri...

The scene on the night of May 28, 2023 bordered on the surreal and sometimes absurd! As the exaggerated joy among the followers of the Muslim Brotherhood and their lengthy sermons was pathetic, as if the winner was the president of their state, or the winning was a victory for democracy in their countries! In contrast to those delusional followers, some Muslim Brotherhood members seem to have a be...

By AFPAt a red-brick factory in the German port city of Hamburg, cocoa bean shells go in one end, and out the other comes an amazing black powder with the potential to counter climate change.The substance, dubbed biochar, is produced by heating the c...

By AFPMajor oil producers led by Saudi Arabia and Russia met Sunday to discuss slashing output further in a bid to prop up prices, talks that are seen as tough amid tensions between Riyadh and Moscow.The 13-member Organization of the Petroleum Export...

By AFPA coalition of French environmental charities on Thursday accused the French state of negligence in regulating the use of pesticides, in a landmark legal case.The five organisations allege the French state is indirectly responsible for the shar...

By AFPThe virus causing record cases of avian influenza in birds across the world is changing rapidly, experts have warned, as calls increase for countries to vaccinate their poultry.While emphasising that the risk to humans remains low, the experts...

By AFPFifty Islamic State-group jihadists and 168 Iraqi members of jihadist families were repatriated from Syria to Iraq on Saturday, an Iraqi official said.Iraqi authorities "received 50 members of the Islamic State from the Syrian Democratic Forces...

Clashes erupted between Muslim minorities in Tonghai County, Yuxi City of Yunnan Province and the Chinese police on May 27 after the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) authorities sent forces to demolish part of a historical mosque, reflecting how some Ea...