By AFP/Benjamin LEGENDRE and Ivan COURONNEEurope is "absolutely vital" to the fight against global warming and its leadership must not waver as climate ambition backslides elsewhere, the CEO of November's COP30 summit in Brazil told AFP.In an intervi...

By AFPIn Gaza, where hunger gnaws and hope runs thin, flour and bread are so scarce that they are carefully divided by families clinging to survival."Because the crossing points are closed, there's no more gas and no flour, and no firewood coming in,...

By AFPLebanon's parliament on Thursday granted regulatory bodies greater access to bank account information, a key reform demanded by international creditors before the crisis-hit country can unlock bail-out funds.Prime Minister Nawaf Salam called pa...

By AFP/Pauline Froissart with Erin FlanaganThe European rights court condemned France on Thursday for failing to protect the rights of three teenagers who reported rape, including one who accused 14 firemen of abuse.The European Court of Human Right'...

By AFP/Claire Gounon and Aysha SafiIn March 2001, the Taliban shocked the world by dynamiting the giant Buddhas of Bamiyan. Two decades later, they are back in power and claim to be making strides to preserve Afghanistan's millennia-old heritage, inc...

By AFPGiant prehistoric kangaroos perished when "climate upheaval" turned lush Australian rainforest into desert, scientists said Thursday after studying ancient fossils with new techniques.Weighing as much as 170 kilograms (375 pounds) -- almost twi...

By AFP/Christian CHAISESpain on Thursday cancelled a contract to buy bullets from an Israeli company following pressure from the Socialist-led government's far-left coalition partner -- a move swiftly condemned by Israel.Spanish Prime Minister Pedro...

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...