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...

By UN NewsThe head of the UN migration agency stressed on Friday that Syria is in no position to take back millions of Syrians following the fall of the Assad regime, while there is an urgent need to “re-evaluate” sanctions impacting the war-ravaged...

By AFP/Alberto PEÑAThe Inter-American Court of Human Rights on Friday ruled against El Salvador for barring a woman from getting an abortion, despite her life being at risk and her fetus being unviable.It ordered the Salvadoran government to pay comp...

By AFP/Yannick PASQUETOutside the school of one of Greece's smallest inhabited islands, Sikinos, two massive trucks have braved an eight-hour sea voyage to bring residents much-needed medical expertise in the depths of winter.The back of the first ve...

By AFPPope Francis on Saturday condemned the bombing of children in Gaza as "cruelty", a day after the territory's rescue agency said an Israeli air strike killed seven children from one family.Gaza's civil defence rescue agency reported that an Isra...

By AFP/Celine Le Prioux with Frank Zeller in BerlinThe Saudi suspect in Germany's deadly car-ramming attack on a Christmas market held strongly anti-Islam views and was angry with Germany's migrant and asylum policy, officials said Saturday.Chancello...

By AFP/Maher AL MOUNESSyrian media outlets which trumpeted the glories of Bashar al-Assad's oppressive rule quickly adopted revolutionary fervour after his ouster, but uncertainty shadows the sector.For decades, Syria's ruling Baath party and the Ass...

By AFPThe UK's data protection watchdog on Thursday criticised Google for an "irresponsible" policy change on how online user information can be tracked and collected for targeted advertising.The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) warned Google...

By AFPA black-and-cream leopard shark enters a hypnotic-like state of relaxation as scientists at Sydney Aquarium carefully roll her onto her back in a small pool.The shark, named Zimba, is one of the first captive leopard sharks in the world to be a...

By AFP/Islam AlatrashIn the Libyan countryside, farmer Ismail Ben Saoud has launched an agricultural experiment, banking on Mejhoul dates -- a premium variety cherished across the Arab world but untested in such a humid coastal climate.Ben Saoud's fi...