By AFP/Bill MCCARTHYElon Musk's hand gestures at an inauguration event for US President Donald Trump, which quickly drew comparisons to Nazi salutes, appear to have resonated in some far-right extremist spaces online.Several neo-Nazi leaders have sha...

By AFP/Issam AHMEDPresident Donald Trump on Monday announced the United States' withdrawal from the Paris climate accord for a second time, a defiant rejection of global efforts to combat planetary warming as catastrophic weather events intensify wor...

By AFP/Gregory WALTON and Diane DESOBEAUUS President Donald Trump repealed numerous executive orders promoting LGBTQ equality and issued new ones decreeing only two genders and ending government diversity programs Monday, definitively breaking with w...

By AFP/Aya IskandaraniSyrian phone shop owner Abdel Razzaq Hamra was thrilled to finally be working in peace after years of being harassed and detained by security personnel enforcing an Assad-linked company's monopoly.Before president Bashar al-Assa...

By AFP/Chris LefkowUS President Donald Trump's sweeping pardons of Capitol rioters drew starkly contrasting reactions on Tuesday, largely embraced by his Republican supporters and vehemently condemned by Democrats.Former Democratic House speaker Nanc...

By AFP/Ani SANDUSince Russia stopped delivering gas to Moldova, Valera Alexandru Sava only heats the ground floor of his two-storey house and often wears a coat and hat inside.But like other villagers in Cocieri, he does not want more expensive energ...

By AFP/Anne-Sophie LabadieWhen Donald Trump presented his 2020 plan to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it included the Israeli annexation of swathes of the occupied West Bank, a controversial aspiration that has been revived by his reelection.I...

By AFP/Youssef HassounaFor the first time in more than a year, war-displaced Gazan Ammar Barbakh awoke on Monday feeling refreshed after a night spent in a tent, but free of Israeli attacks."This is the first time I sleep comfortably and I'm not afra...

By AFP/Aysha Safi with Nasim NazariThe Taliban government said Tuesday it had released two American citizens from prison in return for an Afghan fighter held in the United States, in a deal brokered by Qatar.Outgoing US president Joe Biden agreed on...

By AFPA journalist who reported on Peru's extortion epidemic was shot dead on Monday and two people were injured in a separate bomb attack on a prosecutor's office that also investigates racketeering, authorities said.Gaston Medina, the owner and edi...

By AFP/Daniel SILVAGlobal tourism fully recovered from the Covid-19 pandemic in 2024 with 1.4 billion international tourist arrivals recorded worldwide due to "robust" demand from key markets, UN Tourism said Monday."A majority of destinations welcom...

By AFP/Herika Martinez with Zina DesmazesMargelis Tinoco broke down in tears after her asylum appointment was canceled as part of a sweeping immigration crackdown announced by US President Donald Trump on his first day in office."I don't know what wi...