By AFP with Alice ChancellorGaza rescue teams and medics said Israeli air strikes killed at least 55 people on Thursday, as the military threatened an even larger offensive if hostages were not freed soon.Israel resumed its military assault in the Ga...

By AFP/Anup OJHANepal's first nationwide survey of the threatened snow leopard estimated nearly 400 of the elusive big cats in the Himalayan nation, wildlife officials said Tuesday.Habitat loss, climate change and poaching have greatly impacted snow...

By AFPA symbolic Syrian political forum that was banned under Bashar al-Assad relaunched on Wednesday, declaring its determination to work for democracy and freedoms, months after the former ruler's overthrow by Islamist-led forces."Today is the reop...

By AFPA media rights monitoring group condemned on Wednesday the detention of three Ethiopian reporters working for one of the country's most widely read outlets, and urged the return of seized equipment.The east African giant of some 130 million peo...

By AFPA French court ruled that a Muslim school could continue to receive state subsidies after local authorities in 2023 cut funding over alleged "serious breaches" of teaching rules, the court and its management said.Private schools can receive sta...

By AFP/François BECKER and Adam PLOWRIGHTThe Cannes film festival said Wednesday that the screening of a documentary about Gaza photojournalist Fatima Hassouna at the event next month would honour her work after the "horror" of her death in an Israel...

By AFP/Issam AHMEDPresident Donald Trump's administration on Tuesday announced plans to remove synthetic dyes from the US food supply, marking a rare point of bipartisan convergence in an otherwise sharply divided political climate.Health Secretary R...

By AFP/Romain FONSEGRIVESIn his California laboratory, Ralph Keeling examines a graph created from data his father began collecting that keeps a record of the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.After 67 years, the fate of this "major indicato...

By AFPGerman chemicals giant BASF said Tuesday it had exited two joint ventures in China's Xinjiang region after its local partner was alleged to have participated in rights abuses against the local Uyghur minority.BASF said in a statement it had com...

By AFP/Claire GallenAfter a past marked by anti-Semitism, far-right parties now often portray themselves as defenders of Jews, but critics accuse them of shifting their stance solely for political gain.Last month several far-right leaders travelled t...

By AFP/Charlotte CAUSITFrom cancer cures to climate change, President Donald Trump's administration has upended the American research landscape, threatening the United States' standing as a global science leader and sowing fear over jobs and funding....

By AFP/Kamal TahaJordan announced on Wednesday it was banning the activities of the Muslim Brotherhood, a transnational Islamist movement, accusing it of manufacturing and stockpiling weapons and planning to destabilise the kingdom.The move comes aft...