By AFP/Fabrice Coffrini, with Christophe VogtSwiss authorities said Thursday that rock and ice piles from a collapsed glacier that destroyed a village were preventing emergency services from working, but that they were cautiously optimistic no more h...

By AFP/Stuart WhiteIsrael announced Thursday the creation of 22 new settlements in the occupied West Bank, drawing sharp condemnation from Britain, Jordan and others already at odds with the country over its Gaza war.London called the move a "deliber...

By AFP/Hillary ORINDEA South African court on Thursday sentenced a woman to life in prison for kidnapping and selling her six-year-old daughter, in a case that horrified the country.Joshlin Smith went missing in February last year from her home in Sa...

By AFP/Shaun TANDONThe United States said Wednesday it will refuse visas to foreign officials who block Americans' social media posts, as President Donald Trump's administration wages a new battle over free expression.Secretary of State Marco Rubio -...

By AFPIraq's federal authorities have filed a complaint against the autonomous Kurdistan region for signing gas contracts with two US companies, two officials told AFP on Tuesday.Oil exports have been a major point of tension between Baghdad and Arbi...

By AFP/Anaïs LLobet, Laurent Banguet and Marjorie BoyetA French court on Wednesday gave the maximum 20-year jail term to a surgeon who admitted sexually abusing hundreds of patients, most of them children, but victims, some in tears, expressed disapp...

By AFP/Michel COMTEMore than 17,000 people in Canada's western Manitoba province were being evacuated on Wednesday as the region experienced its worst start to a wildfire season in years."The Manitoba government has declared a province-wide state of...

By AFPAt least 44 people were killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip on Thursday, rescuers said, a day after a World Food Programme warehouse in the centre of the territory was looted by desperate Palestinians.After a more than two-month blo...

By AFPAn Algerian court on Monday sentenced three former contenders for the country's presidency to 10 years in jail for corruption, a judicial source said Monday.Businesswoman Saida Neghza, former minister Belkacem Sahli and Abdelhakim Hamadi were a...

By AFP/Anna KORKMANA fighter jet roaring through the grey sky breaks the tranquillity of a boreal forest in northern Finland, one more sign of a growing military presence that is challenging the ability of reindeer herders to exercise their livelihoo...

By AFP/Eléonore SENSFrom his roof, Sidi Mohamed Lemine Sidiya scans the mediaeval town of Oualata, a treasure that is disappearing under the sands of the Mauritanian desert."It's a magnificent, extraordinary town," said Sidiya, who is battling to pre...

By AFP/Peter EsserA German court on Wednesday rejected a climate case brought by a Peruvian farmer against energy giant RWE, but set a potentially important precedent on polluters' liability for their carbon emissions.The judge in the case ruled that...