By AFPThe World Health Organisation said on Monday it wanted a code of conduct to bar medical workers from performing female genital mutilation (FGM).Issuing fresh guidelines on how to halt FGM, the UN health agency highlighted the important role pla...

By AFPThe United Nations expressed deep alarm on Monday at reports that US strikes on Yemen killed scores of people at a migrant detention centre in a stronghold of the Houthi rebels.The US military has hammered the Iran-backed Houthis with near-dail...

By AFP/Sam Davies and Luna LinChina's wind and solar energy capacity has surpassed that of mostly coal-powered thermal for the first time, the national energy body said Friday.China, the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases that drive climate...

By AFP/Jonathan BROWNThree American children aged two, four and seven -- one of whom has a rare form of cancer -- have been deported from the United States alongside their undocumented immigrant mothers, campaigners announced Saturday.The deportation...

By AFPA charred Myanmar hillside is wreathed by flames, spewing ochre smoke that smothers out sunlight in an apocalyptic scene.But the villagers who set it ablaze dance below in a ceremony celebrating the inferno as a moment of regeneration and hope....

By AFPSpain has awarded 46 contracts worth more than one billion euros to Israeli defence firms since the outbreak of the Gaza war, breaking the leftist government's pledge not to trade arms with Israel, researchers said on Friday.Their conclusions c...

By AFP/Lajla VESELICAFrom the dark shadows still cast by the wars that accompanied Yugoslavia's collapse to social exclusion, Croatian film director Nebojsa Slijepcevic is not afraid to shy away from weighty subjects.Slijepcevic became Croatia's firs...

By AFP/Lynn MYATWhen a massive earthquake hit Myanmar last month, centuries of sacred history tumbled down -- towering Buddha idols, sky-scraping stupas and the pure-white pagoda where 83-year-old Khin Sein has prayed for most of her life.The magnitu...

By AFPSaudi Arabia and Qatar announced on Sunday that they would settle Syria's debt to the World Bank totalling roughly $15 million, according to a statement published by the Saudi Press Agency.Both Gulf states have played a key role in the diplomat...

By AFP/Rania SanjarAfter decades spent pruning thorny bushes and working arduous harvests, Khalaf Allah al-Talhi has perfected the art of capturing the fragrant aroma of the desert rose in a bottle."I love roses and take care of them more than I care...

By AFP/Philippe Siuberski and Sylvie MaligorneFrance's President Emmanuel Macron lashed out Sunday against "racism and hatred" after the brutal stabbing to death of a Muslim in a mosque in the south of the country.Officials said the attacker, who is...

By AFP/John HADOULISOn a cloudy spring morning in one of Athens' most densely inhabited districts, thousands of fresh saplings dotting a small hilltop park mark a fledgling effort to tackle crippling heat that critics say is long overdue.This is Athe...