By AFPSudan's paramilitary declared on Tuesday the establishment of government rivalling the army-backed administration, two years into a war that has triggered the world's worst humanitarian crisis.The war that erupted on April 15, 2023 has killed t...

By AFPGlobal oil demand will be lower than previously forecast this year as rising trade tensions weigh on the economic outlook, the International Energy Agency said Tuesday.While US imports of oil, gas and refined products have been exempted from Pr...

By AFPMore than 10 percent of the Afghan population could be deprived of healthcare by the end of the year due to the termination of US aid, the World Health Organization warned Tuesday.Afghanistan, with a population of 45 million that has long been...

By AFPRussia on Tuesday sentenced four journalists it said were associated with late opposition leader Alexei Navalny to five and a half years in a penal colony, intensifying a crackdown on press freedom and Kremlin critics.Navalny -- Putin's main op...

By AFPA sandstorm swept through Iraq, filling the air with choking dust that closed airports and put more than 3,700 people in hospital with breathing difficulties, the health ministry said Tuesday.Visibility fell to less than one kilometre (barely h...

By AFP/Gwen ROLEYAs Canada heads into an election this month, voters looking for campaign news on Facebook or Instagram will find material filtered through online creators and influencers -- and no links to articles from major media outlets.For more...

By AFPUS immigration authorities on Monday arrested another Columbia University student who participated in pro-Palestinian campus protests, detaining him as he attended an interview to become an American citizen.Mohsen Mahdawi's lawyers, in a court...

By AFP/Samad UTHMAN and Nicholas ROLLAs clouds gather and humidity rises across west Africa, whose annual rains bring an uptick of deadly, malaria-carrying mosquitoes, Musa Adamu Ibrahim, a nurse, is sitting at home, unemployed.In Nigeria -- home to...

By AFP/James PHEBY"This is the best three weeks I've ever had," steelworker Kian Hopkins told AFP of his new job at a Scunthorpe plant, even though locals fear its potential closure would turn their home into a "ghost town".Smeared in soot, 18-year-o...

By AFP/Danny KEMPEl Salvador's President Nayib Bukele on Monday ruled out returning a man wrongly deported from the United States, as he bonded with Donald Trump over a scheme to send migrants to a mega-prison in the Central American country.The US p...

By AFP/Alexandra LESIEURThey were born in a hell on Earth and were never supposed to survive. But by some miracle a handful of babies born in Ravensbruck concentration camp in northern Germany made it out alive.Guy Poirot -- who was born there on Mar...

By AFPEurope experienced its most extensive flooding in over a decade in 2024, the EU's climate change monitor reported on Tuesday, with almost one-third of its rivers swelling to bursting point.Swathes of the continent were inundated during the year...