By AFP/Moisés ÁVILAOscar Silva has a bull's eye on his back as Donald Trump prepares to retake power with a pledge to deport millions of undocumented migrants like him.Born in Mexico, Silva was a baby in his parents' arms when they waded across the R...

By AFPCameroonian President Paul Biya on Monday urged central African states to take "urgent action" to face the region's "concerning" economic climate, in his first public appearance since late October.The 91-year-old strongman, who has been in powe...

By AFP/Agnès PEDREROThe international community does not grasp the seriousness of the crisis ravaging Sudan after more than a year and a half of civil war, a high-level UN official warned on Monday.The diplomatic efforts "are not commensurate with th...

By AFP/Simon AVONThe dismal quality of housing across Mayotte has compounded the devastating impact of Cyclone Chido on the poverty-stricken French Indian Ocean territory where hundreds, or maybe thousands, are feared dead.Before the storm hit, aroun...

By AFPA senior UK bishop, who will soon take over temporarily as leader of the world's Anglicans after a sex abuse scandal, faced calls to quit on Monday over his own handling of another case.Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell, the Anglican Church's...

By AFPSerbian authorities have been using sophisticated digital surveillance technology to spy on journalists and activists in the Balkan country, Amnesty International said in a report published Monday.According to the report -- "A Digital Prison" -...

By AFP/Dave ClarkOusted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad's vast network of prisons was not simply a tool of his brutal crackdown on opposition to his rule, it was a money-making machine for his supporters.Desperate Syrians, clinging to the dream of seei...

By AFP/Issam AHMEDThe common murre, a large black-and-white seabird native to northern waters, has become far less common in Alaska over the past decade due to the impacts of climate change.A study published Thursday in Science reveals that a record-...

By AFPThe Syrian pound has begun to recover against the dollar after president Bashar al-Assad's ouster, moneychangers and traders said Monday as foreign currencies again became available on the local market.On December 7 -- the day before Damascus f...

By UN NewsCivilians near the frontlines of Ukraine’s war with Russia are living “on the edge”, a senior UN humanitarian official told the Security Council on Monday, calling for urgent international action to increase protection and sustain humanitar...

By UN NewsInternational migrants comprised 4.7 per cent of the labour force in 2022 – an indication of the crucial role they play in the global economy, the UN labour agency ILO said in a report published on Monday.Some 167.7 million migrants were pa...

By By AFP/Anne ChaonThe Syrian military intelligence officers who detained Ghazi Mohammed al-Mohammed told him to forget his name and who he was.They took away his papers, he said, and told him: "Now you're number 3006."For five and a half months Moh...