By AFPA key Syrian rescue group and an activist told AFP on Wednesday a burial site outside Damascus was likely a mass grave for detainees held under former president Bashar al-Assad and fighters killed in the civil war.In a vast walled area located...

By AFPMore than 160 Chinese workers have been saved from "slave-like conditions" in Brazil, where they had been building an electric car factory for Chinese giant BYD, officials said Tuesday.BYD's Brazilian subsidiary said in a statement late Monday...

By AFP/Christy-Belle GehaThe smell of dampness rises through the dust at a private club in central Baghdad, one of many shut in a crackdown on alcohol sales in Iraq."We appealed to all authorities in the country, but no one listened to us," said the...

By AFP/Léa NKAMLEUN FOSSOEver since his first hard-won sightings of African manatees, award-winning marine biologist Aristide Takoukam Kamla has been devoted to protecting the little known and at-risk aquatic mammals.African manatees are found in fre...

By AFPThe Israeli army said on Tuesday it had concluded that military operations in southern Gaza likely led to the killing by Hamas of six hostages in August.As the fighting churns on, the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meanwhile said t...

By AFP/Francoise KadriLike many of his fellow Tunisians, 23-year-old Amine Elhani has never been to the cinema, but now, thanks to a mobile theatre touring the country, he can finally enjoy the big screen.The bright red truck of CinemaTdour, or "movi...

By AFP/Clement Melki with Sebastien DuvalPope Francis called Wednesday for "arms to be silenced" around the world in his Christmas address, appealing for peace in the Middle East, Ukraine and Sudan as he denounced the "extremely grave" humanitarian s...

By AFP/Sebastien DuvalWith no Christmas tree or decorations adorning the Church of the Nativity, revered as the birthplace of Jesus Christ, holiday cheer was absent in the Israeli-occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem on Tuesday.But for some, like Jer...

By AFPHundreds of Christians in war-ravaged Gaza City gathered at a church on Tuesday, praying for an end to the war that has devastated much of the Palestinian territory.Gone were the sparkling lights, the festive decorations, and the towering Chris...

By AFP/Watsamon TRI-YASAKDAAlmost 1,000 kilometres off the Thai coast devastated by a tsunami 20 years ago, engineers lower a detection buoy into the waves -- a key link in a warning system intended to ensure no disaster is as deadly again.On Decembe...

By AFP/Caroline TAÏXUK families of some 240,000 people who died from Covid-19 have hung festive lights on a London wall, a symbol of love, anger and pain ahead of another Christmas overshadowed by loss.As the fifth anniversary of the global pandemic...

By AFP/Anuj CHOPRAA US health boss's murder sparked a torrent of online misinformation and calls for violence against other executives, suggesting a failure of social media moderation that analysts fear could translate into real-world harms.The posts...