By AFPChina missed a key climate target in 2024 and emissions in the world's second-largest economy rose slightly as coal remained dominant despite record renewable additions, official data showed Friday.The figures mean the world's biggest emitter i...

By AFP/Lucía LACURCIAIn a busy workshop, Leandro Vieira oversees preparations for Rio de Janeiro's dazzling Carnival parade, where his samba school will celebrate the spiritual richness of Candomble, one of the main Afro-Brazilian faiths.Elsewhere, a...

By AFPNicaragua announced on Thursday its withdrawal from the UN Human Rights Council, after experts appointed by the organization accused President Daniel Ortega's government of widespread repression.The decision to quit the council and all related...

By AFP/Yussel GonzalezThey unlock vehicles with just the touch of a button, but the manufacturing of electronic car keys is anything but simple, illustrating the potential complexities and costs of US President Donald Trump's threatened tariffs.The p...

By AFPMore than half a million people in Afghanistan were displaced due to climate disasters in 2024, the International Organization for Migration said in a country report published last Tuesday."Nearly 9 million individuals were impacted by climate...

By AFPSri Lanka vowed Thursday to urgently tackle costly clashes between villagers and wild elephants after reporting the deaths of nearly 1,200 people and over 3,500 animals in a decade.Environment minister Dammika Patabendi told parliament that the...

By AFPHundreds of exhausted young men lie in an open-sided detention centre in a seedy Myanmar border town, sweating through thick tropical heat by day and prey to clouds of mosquitoes by night.They are among some 7,000 people from more than two doze...

By AFPGuatemalan authorities have arrested three Americans and a Canadian, alleged members of an ultra-orthodox Jewish sect under investigation for child sex abuse, the police and prosecutors said Wednesday.The arrests late Tuesday followed a raid on...

By AFPNearly 4.4 million people will be at risk of hunger in Somalia by June due in particular to drought, a UN-supported report said Wednesday.The number, which represents an increase of one million people from the present, comes from the Integrated...

By AFPA jury on Friday convicted a man of murder for killing a six-year-old Palestinian-American child in the US state of Illinois, deeming the attack to be a hate crime.Joseph Czuba, 73, was convicted for stabbing Wadea Al-Fayoumi 26 times, as well...

By AFP/Paula RAMONWith planting season well under way in California, the leading US food-producing state, fear is taking root among thousands of migrants who labor to feed a country that now seems ready to deport them."We have to stay hidden," Lourde...

By AFP/Majid Sourati and Payam Doost MohamadiIran's parliament sacked the country's finance minister on Sunday after impeaching him over soaring inflation and a plunging currency, state television reported.Economy and finance minister Abdolnaser Hemm...