By AFP/Louis BAUDOIN-LAARMANBatoul Bsharat was playing with her eight-year-old brother Reda in their village in the occupied West Bank. Moments later an Israeli drone strike killed him and two of their cousins."It was the first time in our lives that...

By AFPSwitzerland demanded on Friday a thorough investigation into the death of a Swiss national who was arrested in Iran on spying charges and died in prison.The authorities in Tehran said on Thursday he had committed suicide."Switzerland is demandi...

By AFP/Juan Sebastián SERRANOBrazil will seek to build relationships and not worsen an already tense global mood, while holding the rotating presidency of the BRICS bloc of developing economies, a top official told AFP.Diplomat Eduardo Saboia, head o...

By AFP/Nathalie ALONSOThe oil spill in the Black Sea that has hit Russian and Crimean coasts since mid-December is particularly hard to clean up because it involves a "heavy" fuel that is less likely to float.Heavy fuel to blameThe Kerch Strait betwe...

By UN NewsGlobal economic growth is projected to remain at 2.8 per cent in 2025, unchanged from this past year, according to a UN flagship report released on Thursday.The World Economic Situation and Prospects (WESP) 2025 report shows that despite wi...

By UN NewsSocial media posts inciting hate and division have “real world consequences” and there is a responsibility to regulate content, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, insisted on Friday, following Meta’s decision to end its fact-checkin...

By AFPA Kazakh court on Friday fined a consortium of oil companies over $6 million for excessive gas flaring from a giant oilfield under the Caspian Sea.The Central Asian country has stepped up fines on environmental violators in recent years, as it...

By AFPSyria's new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa told visiting Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani on Friday that he was ready to stem "illegal immigration" to Europe, the European diplomat said."Sharaa says he is ready to block illegal immigration, (and...

By AFP/Zain Zaman JANJUANobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai on Saturday joined a global summit on the education of Muslim girls that was snubbed by Afghanistan's Taliban government.The two-day conference hosted by Pakistan has brought togethe...

By UN NewsThree experts appointed by the UN Human Rights Council on Friday urged the United States Senate to oppose a bill seeking to impose sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC), and cut funding to the UN-backed tribunal, in response t...

By AFP/Aya IskandaraniIn Syria's third city Homs, members of ousted president Bashar al-Assad's Alawite community say they are terrified as new authorities comb their districts for "remnants of the regime", arresting hundreds.In central Homs, the mar...

By AFP/Waleed al-AkidiA decade after jihadists ransacked Iraq's famed Nimrud site, archaeologists have been painstakingly putting together its ancient treasures, shattered into tens of thousands of tiny fragments.Once the crown jewel of the ancient A...