By AFPAn Argentine photojournalist emerged from emergency surgery Thursday that his father said saved his life after suffering a serious head injury while covering clashes between police and anti-austerity protesters in Buenos Aires.Wednesday's skirm...

By AFPThe UNRWA chief warned Thursday that if the embattled UN agency for Palestinian refugees were to collapse, it would deprive a generation of children of education, "sowing the seeds for more extremism".Pointing to a dire funding situation, Phili...

By AFP/Anup OJHANepali police officer Jiwan Subba still feels pangs of regret decades after he bludgeoned a strange creature he found wandering in his barn, not realising it was an endangered red panda.Red pandas may share a similar name to giant pan...

By AFPMine shafts snake under the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's mountains, but instead of the Congolese government their rich veins are making a mint for the Rwanda-backed M23.In the tracts of land the M23 has seized following its 2021 resur...

By AFP/Zain Zaman JANJUAIn a desert town in Pakistan, Hindus prepare meals for fasting Muslims, who in turn gather to welcome a Holi procession, a rare moment of religious solidarity in the Islamic nation.Discrimination against minorities runs deep i...

By AFP/Layal ABOU RAHALSyria's new temporary constitution concentrates power in interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa's hands and fails to include enough protections for minorities, experts warn.The declaration, signed into law on Thursday, establishes a...

By AFP/Eden Ezra and Dylan GambaBiruktawit Tasew's fingers glide over the strings of the begena, producing a deep, hypnotic sound. Along with six fellow musicians, she breaks into a solemn religious melody, holding their audience spellbound.One of th...

By AFPA fact-finding committee formed by Syria's new authorities to investigate a wave of deadly violence said on Tuesday the country was determined to "prevent unlawful revenge".A wave of violence broke out last Thursday, mainly in the Mediterranean...

By AFPThe Syrian presidency announced on Monday an agreement with the head of the Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to integrate the institutions of the autonomous Kurdish administration in the northeast into the national government.Sy...

By AFPIsrael's far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said on Sunday that US President Donald Trump's plan to displace Palestinians from war-battered Gaza was "taking shape", despite widespread rejection by governments in the region."This plan i...

By AFP/Aymeric VINCENOTThe Democratic Republic of Congo has temporarily suspended exports of cobalt as the world's leading producer hopes to stem falling prices, though analysts warn the freeze is not without risk.The government said the surprise fou...

By AFP/Pierre-Henry DESHAYESA flimsy tent rises up behind a snowdrift, home for nearly two years to one of the many homeless left behind by a wave of modernisation in Greenland, living rough in the harsh Arctic cold.To keep warm in a region where the...