By AFPPro-Palestinian activists seeking to march to Gaza with the stated aim of breaking Israel's blockade on the territory were stopped Friday in both Libya and Egypt, organisers said."Forty participants of the Global March to Gaza have had their pa...

By AFP/Victoria LAVELLEScott Konopasek, a decorated US veteran, has gone from defending his country to protesting the government, angered by deep budget cuts hurting former members of the military.Wearing a US Army cap, the former intelligence office...

By AFP/Jordane BERTRANDIt took a steep hike in mobile internet tariffs to unleash a rebellion among Cuban students on a scale unseen since the 1959 revolution that brought Fidel Castro to power.The new pricing structure, which came into effect on May...

By AFP/Mumen Khatib and Fadel SennaAfter Muhammed Sajjad moved from India to the United Arab Emirates a decade ago, he missed his native Kerala's monsoon season, so he embarked on an unlikely quest: finding rain in the desert.Using satellite imagery,...

By AFP/Pierre HARDYCarrying a bag filled with the overdose-reversing drug naloxone, Adam Trionfo roams the brick-lined streets of one of America's oldest port cities, Baltimore.The 40-year-old and his small team visit neighborhoods considered "hot sp...

By AFP/Blaise GAUQUELINWith Austria still reeling from this week's deadly school shooting that killed 10 people, a debate is now raging over the Alpine country's gun laws.The unprecedented case of deadly gun violence stunned the country of almost 9.2...

By AFPGaza's civil defence agency reported 41 people killed in Israeli military operations in the Palestinian territory Saturday, more than half of whom it said were killed while waiting for aid."Forty-one people were martyred due to the ongoing Isra...

By AFP/Moisés ÁVILAMinutes after an immigration judge rejected his asylum case earlier this week, Oscar Gato Sanchez was arrested as he exited a federal courthouse in Houston."I'm a Cuban citizen unjustly arrested," he told AFP as plainclothes office...

By AFPThe official website of a Hong Kong-based group that tracked worker unrest in China was unavailable to access on Friday, a day after it abruptly announced it would cease operations due to financial issues.Founded by veteran pro-democracy protes...

By AFP/John MKHIZESouth African President Cyril Ramaphosa met Friday with survivors of devastating floods that killed at least 86 people in the impoverished Eastern Cape province, blaming the "catastrophic disaster" on climate change.Ramaphosa toured...

By AFPSwedish pension fund AP7 said Friday it had blacklisted Tesla over the US company's lack of respect for labour rights in the US, and had sold off its $1.4 billion stake in the US carmaker.The fund said in a statement that it had decided "to bla...

By AFP/Nick PERRY and Antoine AGASSEA global oceans summit wrapped up Friday with world leaders taking major steps toward marine protection and vowing a showdown when nations meet to negotiate rules for deep-sea mining next month.But as a cacophony o...