By AFP/Josh EDELSON with Brian KNOWLTONPresident-elect Donald Trump on Sunday pledged to "stop the transgender lunacy" on day one of his presidency, as Republicans -- set to control both chambers of Congress and the White House -- continue their push...

By AFP/Aymen JAMLIOn a hillside in Tunisia's northwestern highlands, women scour a sun-scorched field for the wild herbs they rely on for their livelihoods, but droughts and rising temperatures are making it ever harder to find the precious plants.Ye...

By AFP/Dave CLARKSchool lessons ended in Syria's biggest Palestinian refugee camp on October 18, 2012, judging by the date still chalked up on the board more than a decade later."I am playing football"; "She is eating an apple"; "The boys are flying...

By AFP/Camille Laffont and Seros MuyisaLife seems almost normal in the streets of Lubero but the calm is deceptive -- the town nestled in the forested, misty hills of eastern DR Congo is under threat from an advancing rebel militia."The enemy is righ...

By AFPVenezuelan authorities released a journalist accused of terrorism and arrested in the aftermath of President Nicolas Maduro's disputed July reelection, the country's press union announced Saturday.Ana Carolina Guaita, arrested on August 2, is a...

By AFPMexican President Claudia Sheinbaum issued a decree on Friday returning more than 2,000 hectares to two communities of the Tarahumara Indigenous people in the northern state of Chihuahua, on the border with the United States."Today is a histori...

By AFPA trade panel found Friday that Mexico's restrictions on US genetically engineered corn go against the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, marking a win for President Joe Biden's administration in its final days.The dispute settlement panel...

By AFP/Corentin DAUTREPPEAnimal rights activist Paul Watson, freed this week from detention in Denmark, vowed on Saturday to end whale hunting worldwide and to stop Japan if it tried to resume whaling in the Southern Ocean.Watson, a 74-year-old Canad...

By AFP/Ruth EGLASHAt the end of a winding road on a dusty hillside in the Israeli-annexed Golan, the yellow gates of Trump Heights slowly open for cars, passing a golden-lettered sign honouring the US president-elect.Emblazoned with Israeli and US fl...

By AFPTwo journalists from Turkey's Kurdish-majority southeast have been killed, reportedly by a Turkish drone, while covering clashes between an Ankara-backed militia and US-backed Kurdish fighters in Syria, journalists' groups said Friday.Nazim Das...

By AFPThousands of Cubans joined a protest Friday in front of the US embassy in Havana that was led by President Miguel Diaz-Canel and ex-leader Raul Castro against Washington's long-standing trade blockade."We are marching now to tell the US governm...

By AFPGuatemalan authorities said they rescued 160 minors on Friday from a farm occupied by an ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect under investigation for alleged child sex abuse.The minors "were allegedly being abused by a member of the Lev Tahor sect," Inte...