By AFPThe bacteria that cause the plague evolved to become less deadly over time, allowing it to continue infecting people in three separate pandemics over more than a thousand years, new research said Thursday.The first pandemic -- the plague of Jus...

By AFPHalf the global population endured an additional month of extreme heat over the past year because of manmade climate change, a new study found Friday.The findings underscore how the continued burning of fossil fuels is harming health and well-b...

By AFPSeveral jailed Tunisian opposition figures have been transferred without prior notice to prisons far from their families in a move their lawyers and relatives on Friday denounced as "repressive".At least seven political figures were moved on Th...

By AFP/Kaouthar OudrhiriIn a small village on the coast of southern Morocco, women gather in a house to create collaborative works of textile art, and also earn a living.Several hunch over large canvasses, embroidering their latest piece at the women...

By AFP/Saul LOEB with Beiyi SEOWUS President Donald Trump's announcement that he would double steel and aluminum import tariffs to 50 percent from next week drew ire from the European Union Saturday in the latest salvo in his trade wars aimed at prot...

By AFPAn unseasonal rainstorm battered the Egyptian city of Alexandria on Saturday, flooding roads and damaging seafront businesses in the latest bout of erratic weather to hit the region.Hailstones pelted the city overnight, forcing people to flee c...

By AFP/Kamal Taha with Sofiane AlsaarThe foreign ministers of several Arab countries, who had planned to visit the occupied West Bank this weekend, condemned on Saturday Israel's decision to block their trip.The ministers condemned "Israel's decision...

By AFPEcuador's government apologized Saturday to some 300 people who worked as farmers for a Japanese textile firm in conditions which a court likened to modern-day slavery.These people worked on plantations that produced abaca, a fiber used in text...

By Al-Azhar Al-SharifSheikh Ahmed El-Tayyeb, Grand Imam of Al-Azhar and Chairman of‎the Muslim Council of Elders, held an open dialogue with a select delegation of prominent‎Arab media figures on the sidelines of his participation in the Arab Media S...

By AFPThe Slovak government has decided to allow the consumption of brown bear meat, angering environmentalists who on Wednesday slammed the move as absurd and giving a boost to poachers.Slovakia's nationalist government last month approved the culli...

By AFPEx-president Joseph Kabila on Thursday made his first appearance since returning to the Democratic Republic of Congo in Goma, an eastern city seized by the Rwanda-backed M23 militia whose lightning offensive the government accuses him of orches...

By AFP/Selim SAHEB ETTABAThe US Supreme Court handed President Donald Trump a major victory Friday in his immigration crackdown, giving his administration the green light to revoke the legal status of half a million migrants from four Caribbean and L...