By AFP/Corentin DAUTREPPEAnimal rights activist Paul Watson, freed this week from detention in Denmark, vowed on Saturday to end whale hunting worldwide and to stop Japan if it tried to resume whaling in the Southern Ocean.Watson, a 74-year-old Canad...

By AFP/Ruth EGLASHAt the end of a winding road on a dusty hillside in the Israeli-annexed Golan, the yellow gates of Trump Heights slowly open for cars, passing a golden-lettered sign honouring the US president-elect.Emblazoned with Israeli and US fl...

By AFPTwo journalists from Turkey's Kurdish-majority southeast have been killed, reportedly by a Turkish drone, while covering clashes between an Ankara-backed militia and US-backed Kurdish fighters in Syria, journalists' groups said Friday.Nazim Das...

By AFPThousands of Cubans joined a protest Friday in front of the US embassy in Havana that was led by President Miguel Diaz-Canel and ex-leader Raul Castro against Washington's long-standing trade blockade."We are marching now to tell the US governm...

By AFPGuatemalan authorities said they rescued 160 minors on Friday from a farm occupied by an ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect under investigation for alleged child sex abuse.The minors "were allegedly being abused by a member of the Lev Tahor sect," Inte...

By AFPThe Israeli military said its forces shot a protester during a demonstration against the army's activities in a village in southern Syria on Friday, injuring him in the leg.Since Islamist-led rebels toppled Syrian president Bashar al-Assad on D...

By AFP/Lucie GODEAUIndonesian artist Arahmaiani has had many lives -- from an imprisoned then exiled anti-dictatorship activist to a hippie, art teacher and environmentalist -- which have inspired her works that test the limits of freedom.The Southea...

By AFPA leading Israeli newspaper, citing unnamed soldiers serving in Gaza, described indiscriminate killings of Palestinian civilians in the territory's Netzarim Corridor, prompting a firm rejection Friday from the military.Haaretz, a left-leaning I...

By AFP/Catherine HOURSFrance on Saturday connected its most powerful nuclear power reactor to the national electricity grid in what leaders hailed as a landmark moment despite years of delays, budget overruns and technical setbacks.The Flamanville 3...

By AFP/Saidu BAHIn his small Freetown workshop, engineering student James Samba tinkered with batteries and electrical parts he hoped could help clean up Sierra Leone's polluting public transport system.Rush hour in the West African country's major c...

By AFPAlbanian Prime Minister Edi Rama said Saturday the government would shut down social network TikTok for at least a year from 2025."We are going to chase this thug out of our neighbourhood for one year", Rama told a meeting with Albanian teacher...

By UN NewsHunger, dire living conditions made worse by heavy winter rains and ongoing hostilities continue to endanger people’s lives in Gaza, which has become “a graveyard”, UN humanitarians warned on Friday.“The world is not seeing what's going on...