By AFPA Peruvian journalist was gunned down Wednesday by hitmen as he was travelling to work in the Amazon city of Iquitos, the second such murder this year, prompting global condemnation.Raul Celis Lopez, the 70-year-old host of a news show on Radio...

By AFP/Juan Sebastian SERRANOLong used in Indigenous Brazilian rituals, the jurema preta plant, which contains a potent psychedelic, is gaining ground as a potential treatment for depression.At street stalls where medicinal herbs are sold, customers...

By AFP/Alexandria SAGELeo XIV urged the Catholic Church to work urgently to restore the faith of millions in his first homily as pope Friday, a day after the little-known cardinal become the first head of the 2,000-year institution from the United St...

By AFP/Valentín DÌAZFor residents of Colombia's largest migrant camp, an already tough life is getting tougher thanks to Donald Trump's aid cuts.Eight months pregnant and 20 years old, Astrid lives on an abandoned dust-blown airstrip in Colombia's Gu...

By AFP/Tom BARFIELDExperts researching threats stemming from artificial intelligence agreed on key work areas needed to contain dangers like loss of human control or easily accessible bioweapons in a report published Thursday.Many safety-focused scie...

By AFP/Marlowe HOODThe world's wealthiest 10 percent of individuals are responsible for two thirds of global warming since 1990, researchers said on Wednesday.How the rich consume and invest has substantially increased the risk of deadly heatwaves an...

By AFP/Ahmad GHARABLIThe head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees on Thursday decried an "assault on children" after Israel closed all six of its schools in annexed east Jerusalem, months after an Israeli ban on its activities took effect."Stor...

By AFP/Louis Baudoin-LaarmanStanding in the rubble of what used to be his home, Palestinian farmer Haitham Dababseh cleared stones to make space for a tent after Israeli army bulldozers destroyed his village in the occupied West Bank.Residents of Kha...

By AFP/Marchio GORBIANOOn a rainy day in Indonesia's capital Jakarta, three men coated in metallic paint known as the "manusia silver", or silvermen, brave the elements at an intersection near a mall to ask drivers for change.It is an arresting act t...

By AFP/Julie BOURDINThe call came in just after 7:00 pm as the paramedics began the night shift: a man had been stabbed in the head with a glass bottle and was bleeding heavily.The medical crew and their ambulance from Cape Town’s Emergency Medical S...

By AFPIsrael's military said Thursday it would hold a Palestinian journalist arrested last month in administrative detention, raising fresh concerns over press freedom.Ali al-Samudi, 58, would remain in custody until October due to "considerations fo...

By AFPUS President Donald Trump's administration will stop updating a long-running database of costly climate and weather disasters as part of its deep cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, according to a Thursday announcement....