By AFP/Pierre-Henry DESHAYESThe Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to Japan's Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement of Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors pushing for a nuclear weapons ban, as states like Russia threaten to use them.The group, also kn...

By AFP/Laure al-KhouryLebanese Christian Joseph Jarjour was hoping for a peaceful retirement at home in south Lebanon, but has instead found himself caught in the crossfire of the Israel-Hezbollah war."We're trapped," said the 68-year-old retired tea...

By AFP/Kamal MehannaLoud bangs sounded, thick columns of smoke rose and ambulance sirens rang throughout the night as deadly Israeli strikes hit residential areas of central Beirut on Thursday evening.The Israeli attacks hit two central Beirut locati...

By AFPThe UN said Friday that in the decade since it launched a campaign to end the limbo of statelessness, over half a million people without a nationality had acquired citizenship.In a report, the United Nations' refugee agency detailed the progres...

By AFPAid workers with medical charity MSF described on Friday the "nightmare" facing the people of Sudan and appealed for the warring sides to allow humanitarian access as the civil war leads to soaring malnutrition.The conflict between Sudanese par...

By AFPUkrainian prosecutors said on Friday they would investigate the death of a Ukrainian journalist in Russian detention as a war crime.Victoria Roshchyna, who would have turned 28 this month, disappeared in August last year after travelling to Rus...

By AFP/Soulé DiaNdeye Yacine Dieng looked helplessly at the dilapidated state of her once large and inviting home, the latest victim of the encroaching sea in Bargny, on Senegal's western Atlantic coast.Cracked and collapsed walls, damaged roofs and...

By AFPIndonesia's push to add wood-burning to its energy mix and exports is driving deforestation, including in key habitats for endangered species such as orangutans, a report said Thursday.Bioenergy, which uses organic material like trees to produc...

By AFP/Natsuko FukueChika Ezure faced gender bias from her own family when deciding to do a master's degree at Japan's top-ranked university. After arriving on campus, she realised the resistance she faced as a woman was commonplace.She was surrounde...

By AFP/Oliver HothamStrong state support and huge private investment have made China's solar industry a global powerhouse, but it faces new headwinds, from punitive tariffs abroad to a brutal price war at home.Officials meeting in Baku next month for...

By AFP/Zama LuthuliThe cold corridors of South Africa's once-mighty Komati coal-fired power plant have been quiet since its shutdown in 2022 in what was trumpeted as a pioneering project in the world's transition to green energy.Two years later, plan...

By AFP/Juan José RodríguezA trash-collecting machine powered by a water wheel and solar panels has prevented hundreds of tons of plastic and other garbage from Panama from littering mangroves and the ocean.All kinds of trash flow down rivers running...