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...

By AFP/Oscar BATRESFrom one day to the next Jose Maximino Amaya lost everything: his car, household goods, and the proximity of his three children, from whom he was separated when he was deported from the United States.The 50-year-old El Salvador nat...

By AFPNations failed to break a deadlock over the timing of the UN's next blockbuster assessment of climate change science after a marathon meeting in China that US envoys skipped.At issue was whether the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IP...

By AFPIn the safety of Sudan's eastern coast, residents preparing for Ramadan were struggling to afford basic holiday staples as the war raging elsewhere in the country has sent prices soaring.The situation was much more dire in areas hit directly by...

By AFP/Shrouq TARIQUnder a dry, smoggy sky, a beekeeper in Pakistan's Punjab province carefully loads boxes filled with tens of thousands of bees onto the back of a truck.Together they will travel 500 kilometres (around 300 miles) in an increasingly...

By AFPSyria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa on Tuesday called on the international community to pressure Israel to "immediately" withdraw its troops from the south, as he attended his first Arab summit since assuming office.Since Sharaa's Islamis...

By AFP/Menna FaroukArab leaders endorsed on Tuesday a plan to rebuild the Gaza Strip under the future administration of the Palestinian Authority, presenting an alternative to US President Donald Trump's widely condemned proposal to take over the ter...

By AFPUS President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he will cut funding for schools that allow "illegal protests," his latest threat to turn off the flow of federal money to the country's education system.The Republican has previously threatened to cut...