By AFP/Marie DhumieresA French court Monday ordered a filmmaker to wear an electronic bracelet for two years after finding him guilty of sexually assaulting an actor when she was a child, sparing him jail time in one of the key trials of France's #Me...

By AFPClimate change and efforts to curb it by moving away from fossil fuels are both threatening the rights and livelihood of Sami indigenous people in the Arctic, Amnesty International said Friday.There are about 100,000 Samis -- considered Europe'...

By AFP/Kadiatou SAKHOMathias Azonnoudo, a 50-year-old farmer in Benin, was taking a break sitting on a large pile of freshly picked cotton, which the government hopes will feed the country's nascent textile revolution.Azonnoudo and other farmers in t...

By AFP/Caroline TAÏXThousands of supporters of jailed far-right agitator Tommy Robinson marched in London Saturday demanding his release, while police deployed to keep them apart from a large counter-protest.Tech billionaire Elon Musk posted a messag...

By AFP/Irakli METREVELIGeorgian police arrested two opposition leaders during a street protest against the ruling party on Sunday, a moved quickly denounced by the European Union, which condemned Tbilisi's "brutal crackdown".The Black Sea nation has...

By AFP/Claire GounonA miner in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan poured water over a block of jade, exposing the green stone that is part of the Taliban authorities' push to capitalise on the country's rich mineral resources.Touting the return of...

By AFP/Sophie Makris with Lea PernelleDemonstrators descended on Berlin Sunday to protest last week's decision by Germany's conservatives to make overtures to the far right ahead of this month's legislative election, drawing at least 160,000 people,...

By AFP/Menna Farouk with Christy-Belle GehaHalf a century after her death, Umm Kulthum's singular voice still echoes through busy streets in Egypt, across time-worn cafes in Iraq, and in millions of homes from Morocco to Oman."As long as people liste...

By AFPThe head of Africa's health agency said the situation in the DRC city of Goma was a "full-scale public health emergency", warning that the fighting there could fuel major pandemics.The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group has been advancing across the...

By AFP/Haitham El-TabeiSyria's interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa said Saudi Arabia had a "genuine desire" to support his war-torn country, after meeting on Sunday with the oil-rich Gulf state's crown prince.Accompanied by his foreign minister, Asaad...

By AFP/Daxia ROJASThree data centres squatting alongside the cruise ships and freighters in French Mediterranean port Marseille are testing water-saving cooling methods by pumping out an old coal mine.Efforts like these are under the spotlight as gen...

By AFP/Tony Gamal-GabrielHayan Hadid was 18 when soldiers arrested him in his pyjamas and took him for execution in Syria's Hama in 1982, during one of the darkest chapters of the Assad clan's rule."I've never really talked about that, it was a secre...