By AFP/Shaun TANDONUS President Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened further destruction and extermination of Gaza if all remaining hostages are not released, and issued an ultimatum to Hamas leaders to flee.Strongly backing Israel as a ceasefire tee...

By AFP/Tomohiro Osaki with Kyoko HasegawaJapan battled its worst wildfire in half a century on Wednesday in a region hit by record-low rainfall, as wet weather gave hope for some relief.The blaze around the northern city of Ofunato has raged for more...

By AFP/Clara WrightPriests who ran a French Catholic school where staff have been accused of repeated abuse against boarders feel "responsible" for what had happened and were seeking to make amends, a spokesman said.Claims of repeated sexual and phys...

By AFPPrayers at home and smaller gatherings to break the fast -- Muslims in a city recently captured by Rwanda-backed fighters in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo face a more subdued holy month of Ramadan this year.The M23 captured Bukavu in...

By AFPAn Australian known as the "Man with the Golden Arm" for protecting 2.4 million babies with his rare, antibody-rich blood plasma, has died at 88, health officials say.James Harrison rolled up his sleeve and donated blood 1,173 times over 64 yea...

By AFPA new round of negotiations for an international treaty on reducing global plastics pollution will be held in Geneva in August, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) said Monday.A previous round of negotiations -- tasked with hammerin...

By AFP/Robin MILLARDChildren as young as one have been raped by armed men during the conflict in Sudan, the UN said on Tuesday, condemning it as a horror that should "shock anyone to their core".UNICEF said the scale of child rape in war-ravaged Suda...

By AFPJordan on Tuesday evacuated the first group of Palestinian children in need of medical treatment from the war-battered Gaza Strip under a plan the king presented to US President Donald Trump last month.Images aired by state TV channel Al-Mamlak...

By AFP/Anuj CHOPRAUS First Lady Melania Trump on Monday threw her support behind a bill aimed at protecting Americans from deepfake revenge pornography, in her first solo public engagement since her husband returned to the White House.Appearing in a...

By AFPThe Los Angeles Times said Monday it was adding AI-generated counter-arguments to opinion pieces to help readers grasp differing points of view.The move comes as the Times struggles with plunging readership and heavy financial losses that have...

By AFP/Ahmad Parhizi and Majid SouratiShops and markets in central Tehran, usually teeming with customers ahead of the Persian New Year, now barely see any buyers, a sombre reflection of the dire state of the Iranian economy.The plummeting currency a...

By AFP/Nicholas ROLL and Tonye BAKARENigeria's economic crisis is hitting renters in Lagos hard as landlords pass down the costs of spiralling inflation -- pushing residents further out, upending children's education and adding to workers' already in...