Agence France-Presse (AFP) is the world's oldest news agency, founded in 1835 as Agence Havas. Headquartered in Paris, it provides coverage in six languages across 151 countries.
Improvised explosive devices planted by jihadists trying to fend off Iraqi troops in 2015 have also discouraged scores of families from returning to their battered farming towns around Baiji, in the north of the country
Dozens of defendants, including top generals and politicians, were put on trial over the coup, which killed 14 people and wounded 270
The Uru-eu-wau-wau tribe's resource-rich 1.8-million-hectare native reserve is under constant siege from landlords, timber traders, landowners and miners who rely on deforestation
About 654 people, many in areas with large Orthodox Jewish communities, were infected since October last year but there have been no new cases since mid-July, the city government said
Supporters of Jeremy Hammond, part of the Anonymous hacking group, say he’s been summoned to testify against his will to a grand jury in Alexandria on Tuesday
Pawan Jaiswal made national headlines after reporting that impoverished primary school students in a district in Uttar Pradesh state were fed bread with salt instead of a mandated healthy meal
A Russian court on Tuesday sentenced a blogger to five years in a penal colony for a tweet calling for attacks on the children of police, a ruling his lawyer said was unprecedented
US authorities have long accused China of being the main source of the potent drug, which caused 32,000 overdose deaths in the United States last year alone
Hart was hospitalized with major back injuries as a result of a car crash after the driver lost control and the car rolled into a gully
If the social media platform can’t keep its co-founder’s account safe, critics say, how will others fare?
Iran says its rocket program is for civilian use in space
The move was prompted by a designer-baby scandal in China last year
Dawda Jawara, who died Tuesday at age 95, ruled the small West African country from 1965 to 1994
Jerome Segal calls for comprehensive societal transformation, including an 'enormous redistribution of wealth'
The United States said it has opened a diplomatic mission for Venezuela in Colombia, months after suspending its embassy in Caracas as Washington seeks to oust President Nicolas Maduro
Two overnight bomb attacks killed three police officers in the Gaza Strip as the Palestinian enclave was placed under a state of alert
An Italian charity ship rescued around 100 migrants in the Mediterranean on Wednesday, bringing the total number of migrants saved to over 200 this week
The migrants were taken to northern France and handed over to border police
Amir-Tohid Fazel applied for a residence permit on Aug. 21, according to the Swedish Migration Agency
Iran has jailed a British dual national convicted of spying for Israel and upheld the sentence of a British Council staffer for "cultural infiltration", the judiciary said on Tuesday
Load more
