By AFP/Ruth EglashA desk, paint palette and easel stand in the shadows as the spotlight falls on the actor playing German-Jewish artist Leo Haas, who risked his life to record Holocaust atrocities.The immersive one-man play in a tiny theatre at Yad V...

By AFPThe World Food Programme said Tuesday that it was suspending aid for 650,000 malnourished women and children in Ethiopia because of a lack of funding.The UN agency warned they were among 3.6 million people in Ethiopia who would no longer have a...

By AFP/Claire Gounon and Qubad WaliPushed out of Pakistan where she was born, Nazmine Khan's first experience of her country, Afghanistan, was in a sweltering tent at a border camp."We never thought we would return to Afghanistan," said the 15-year-o...

By AFP/Marchio Gorbiano with Sara HusseinAn Indonesian soldier gives a thumbs up as he crosses a rice field on a combine harvester in remote Papua, where a government food security mega-project has raised fears of mass deforestation.Keen to end its r...

By AFP/Glenn CHAPMANUS government attorneys urged a federal judge Monday to make Google spin off its Chrome browser, arguing artificial intelligence is poised to ramp up the tech giant's online search dominance.The Department of Justice (DOJ) made it...

By AFP/Daniel AVISThe International Monetary Fund on Tuesday slashed its forecast for global growth this year and warned of an increase in global financial stability risks, citing the effect of US President Donald Trump's new tariff policies on the w...

By AFPUS pharmacy chain Walgreens has agreed to pay up to $350 million in a settlement with federal authorities over allegedly invalid prescriptions it filled, and sought payment for under health care programs.Walgreens was said to have "illegally fi...

By AFP/Herika MartinezIn frontier soup kitchens and shelters, Francis is remembered as the 'Pope of migrants' -- a steadfast champion who offered spiritual support during perilous escapes from poverty, violence and oppression.Stranded a stone's throw...

By AFPGaza's civil defence agency on Monday accused the Israeli military of carrying out "summary executions" in the killing of 15 rescue workers last month, rejecting the findings of an internal probe by the army.The medics and other rescue workers...

By AFPHaiti, where rampant gang violence has surged in recent weeks, is approaching a "point of no return" leading to "total chaos," the UN special representative to the troubled Caribbean nation warned Monday."As gang violence continues to spread to...

By AFP/Chloe Rouveyrolles-BazireOn deserted university grounds in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian children run outside nearly empty buildings, their playground after being driven from their homes by a major Israeli "counter-terrorism" operation.B...

By AFP/Hicham RafihIt may be the gateway to the vast Sahara desert, but that doesn't mean it's free of that modern scourge of the environment -- the rubbish humanity discards.In southern Morocco, volunteers are hunting for waste embedded in the sand,...