By AFP/Benoit FinckIsrael on Sunday ordered the military to stop a humanitarian ship carrying activists, including Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg, breaking the blockade of the war-ravaged Gaza Strip."I have instructed the military to preve...

By AFP/Bastien INZAURRALDE and Gilles CLARENNESecurity forces clashed with protesters outside a detention center in Los Angeles on Sunday as National Guard troops deployed by President Donald Trump fanned out across the city following two days of unr...

By AFPSyria's highest Sunni Muslim authority issued a religious edict Friday rejecting revenge and urging judicial recourse in the country that has seen extrajudicial killings and sectarian violence since Bashar al-Assad's ouster."It is the right of...

By AFPPope Leo XIV exhorted the faithful on Sunday to reject an "exclusionary mindset" he said had led to nationalism around the world.Leo's homily did not call out current events and conflicts nor identify individual leaders. But his choice of langu...

By AFP/Nick PERRY, Antoine AGASSE and Fanny CARRIERWorld leaders arrived in the French Riviera on Sunday ahead of a high-level summit on ocean conservation, as nations face pressure to adopt tougher stances on overfishing, pollution and marine protec...

By AFP/Boureima HamaFrom infertility struggles to the shape of a woman's body, award-winning filmmaker Aicha Macky tackles issues considered taboo in Niger's conservative society.Even just being a woman in the film industry pushes boundaries -- too m...

By AFP/Kelly MACNAMARAThey warned it could happen: a world of surging nationalism, stalling economic development and the unravelling of decades of international cooperation on climate change and other global challenges.Long before Donald Trump lurche...

By AFP/Albert GaleaTwo men have been found guilty of supplying the bomb that killed Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia in 2017, bringing to five the number convicted over a murder that rocked the country.Following a six-week jury trial, Robert...

By AFP/Léa DAUPLE and Daria ANDRIIEVSKAWhen Russia invaded Ukraine in early 2022, Olha Kyrylenko was at home watching images from her colleagues risking their lives to cover the siege of the port city of Mariupol."I asked myself whether I could work...

By AFP/Lisa GoldenOn Beirut's chaotic, car-choked streets, Lebanese student Fatima Fakih rides a shiny purple bus to university, one of a fleet rolled out by authorities to revive public transport in a country struggling to deliver basic services.The...

By AFP/Nada Abou El-AmaimIn the heart of Cairo, a small cinema has for over a decade offered a unique space for independent film in a country whose industry is largely dominated by commercial considerations.Zawya, meaning "perspective" in Arabic, has...

By AFPArtificial intelligence pioneer and head of Google's Deepmind, Demis Hassabis said last Monday that greater international cooperation around AI regulation was needed but "difficult" to achieve "in today's geopolitical context".At a time when AI...