Amor Nouira, a farmer in Tunisia's Chebika village, has lost hope of saving his prickly pear cacti, ravaged by the cochineal insect spreading across North…
A team of UN investigators said on July 23 they had met in Chad with victims of violence in Sudan's brutal civil war and had…
Italian prosecutors investigating a shipwreck which killed 94 migrants in 2023 accused two members of the coast guard and four police officers on July 23…
French President Emmanuel Macron's office on July 23 said he was pressing Danish authorities not to extradite arrested anti-whaling activist Paul Watson to Japan. Watson,…
The World Health Organization voiced alarm on July 23 at the prospect of outbreaks of polio and other diseases in war-ravaged Gaza, amid an already…
Violence against women and girls in England and Wales is a "national emergency" with almost 3,000 offenses recorded daily, police warned in a new report…
A Sierra Leone court on July 22 found 11 people guilty of treason and other offenses in connection with what authorities have called an attempted…
Hungary and Slovakia asked the European Union on July 22 to intervene after accusing Ukraine of endangering their energy supply. Last month, Kyiv barred Russian…
The death toll from a landslide in a remote area of southern Ethiopia has risen to at least 146, a local official said on July…
Iraqi authorities seized record quantities of the potent stimulant captagon last year, at an estimated value of up to $144 million, with the country increasingly…
Police outside Paris have arrested a suspect in a fire that killed seven people last week in the southern city of Nice, a source familiar…
Police were out in force on the empty streets of the Ugandan capital Kampala on JUly 23 ahead of a planned anti-corruption rally that has…
Britain's new Labour interior minister on July 22 accused the previous, Conservative government of concealing the fact that it expected to spend 10 billion pounds…
The US envoy to the United Nations announced tens of millions of dollars in aid for Haiti during a visit a month after the first…
Protection of Brazil's Indigenous communities from violence by land grabbers and ranchers was "insufficient" in 2023, according to a report published on Monday, dashing hopes…
A Russian court has sentenced Alsu Kurmasheva, a Russian-American journalist for US-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), to 6-1/2 years in prison for spreading false…
Sudan's de facto leader, army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan on July 21 received an Iranian ambassador and sent his own to Tehran, the government said,…
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on July 21 said that his country was ready to build a Cyprus naval base "if necessary", 50 years after…
Gilead could bring the AIDS pandemic towards an end if the US pharmaceutical giant opens up access to its game-changing new HIV drug, the head…
Uncertainty is hanging over Venezuela as it prepares for presidential elections next on July 21 that many fear incumbent Nicolas Maduro will attempt to steal…
Nigeria's Dangote refinery is in talks with Libya to secure crude for the 650,000 barrels per day (bpd) plant and will also seek Angolan oil,…
Turkey is set to send navy support to Somali waters after the two countries agreed Ankara will send an exploration vessel off the coast of…
Russia's Defence Ministry said on July 21 that Russian warplanes prevented two US strategic bombers from violating the state border over the Barents Sea. After…
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, said on July 19 that democracy in Guatemala "remains in danger," despite election winner Bernardo…
Panama's government expects to start deportation flights for migrants who crossed the country's dangerous Darien jungle in two to three months, the country's chief of…
