By AFP/Frédérique PRISThe 2030 FIFA World Cup will send dozens of football teams and hordes of fans crisscrossing the globe for matches on three continents, sparking alarm over the environmental cost.An announcement on the 2030 and 2034 World Cups wi...

By AFP/Nina LarsonUN investigators who for years have been gathering evidence of horrific crimes committed in Syria hope Bashar al-Assad's downfall will finally mean they can access "the crime scene" and "massive evidence"."There is a sea change," sa...

By AFP/Bekai NJIEAs Paul Techy queued with dozens of others in his coastal Gambian fishing village, he hoped to move one step closer towards finally belonging in the only country he had ever called home.Gambian citizenship has long been an elusive go...

By AFP/Gregory WaltonThe man charged with brazenly gunning down a top health insurance CEO in New York carried a handwritten manifesto of grievances against the industry, police said Tuesday, giving a possible motive for the first time.Luigi Mangione...

By AFP/Thomas Cabral"We should be the new El Dorado of medical cannabis production," said agronomist Jose Martins as dozens of workers harvested marijuana in bright sunshine at a farm in southeastern Portugal.The country is fast becoming a European h...

By AFP/Tonye BakareMobile money agents have become a familiar sight across Nigeria, using handy point-of-sale machines to provide essential services to millions of people without access to banking, particularly in hard-to-reach rural areas.Even on th...

By AFPOusted leader Bashar al-Assad must face justice for the killings of scores of journalists during the conflict in Syria, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said Tuesday, warning that currently detained journalists remained at risk."With more than 1...

By AFP/Helen RoweFive European countries including the UK, France and Germany agreed on Tuesday to jointly step up the fight against people-trafficking, as London and Berlin signed a bilateral commitment to tackle the gangs.France's Interior Minister...

By AFP/Pierre-Henry DESHAYESJapan's atomic bomb survivors' group Nihon Hidankyo accepted its Nobel Peace Prize on Tuesday, pleading for the abolition of nuclear weapons that are resurging as a threat 80 years after the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings...

By AFP/Issam AhmedAfter locking carbon dioxide in its frozen soil for millennia, the Arctic tundra is undergoing a dramatic transformation, driven by frequent wildfires that are turning it into a net source of carbon dioxide emissions, a US agency sa...

By AFP/Louis Baudoin-LaarmanShops were closed and gunfire echoed in Jenin on Tuesday during the funeral of a young man killed in clashes between freedom fighters and Palestinian security forces in the West Bank city.A small procession that began in o...

By UN NewsA new report from the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reveals significant progress in ending the problem of the “invisible” millions of babies each year who go unregistered. Nearly eight in 10 children under five were successfully registered at...