By AFPThe Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa, on Tuesday hailed Pope Francis's support for Gazans and engagement with the small Catholic community in the war-battered Palestinian territory.The Catholic church's highest a...

By AFP/Nina LARSONThe World Health Organization chief said Tuesday that operations and jobs would be slashed as US funding cuts had left the UN agency with a budget hole of several hundred million dollars."The sudden drop in income has left us with a...

By AFP/Shaun TANDONPresident Donald Trump's top diplomat Marco Rubio on Tuesday unveiled a restructuring of the US State Department that will cut positions and scale back human rights offices, saying the "bloated" organization was ideologically out o...

By AFPAn unprecedented coral bleaching episode has spread to 84 percent of the world's reefs in an unfolding human-caused crisis that could kill off swathes of the essential ecosystems, scientists warned Wednesday.Since it began in early 2023, the gl...

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...