The French Catholic Church is facing new accusations of a sexual abuse scandal within Paris’s Foreign Missions Society, an organisation dedicated to spreading Christianity overseas.… Read More »Paris’s Catholic Foreign Missions Society under fire over alleged sexual abuse
Emergency teams on Friday kept up their search for the thousands still posted as missing from the tsunami-sized flash flood that swept the Libyan port… Read More »Survivors in Libyan port city of Derna search for missing loved ones
The G77+China, a group of developing and emerging countries representing 80 percent of the global population, gathers Friday in Cuba seeking to promote a “new… Read More »G77+China summit in Cuba seeks to strengthen voice of ‘global South’
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrived at a Russian industrial city to visit a military aviation plant on Friday, Russian agencies reported, following his… Read More »North Korea’s Kim visits military aviation factory in Russia’s far east
US President Joe Biden’s son Hunter was indicted Thursday for illegally buying a gun when he was using drugs, casting a new shadow over his… Read More »Biden’s son Hunter indicted on gun charges for lying about drug addiction
Villagers in some of the most isolated areas hit by Morocco’s earthquake were still living in makeshift tents and relying on donkeys to bring vital supplies… Read More »Isolated Morocco earthquake survivors feel abandoned by state as they await aid
A selection of the best photos from the African continent and beyond.
Hosts France followed up their opening-night triumph over the All Blacks with an underwhelming defeat of Uruguay on Thursday to remain top of Pool A… Read More »Second-string France overcome valiant Uruguay at Rugby World Cup
Italy’s right-wing Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has demanded local councils only list biological parents on birth certificates, flinging hundreds of same-sex couples into a legal… Read More »‘Ghost parents’: Same-sex couples in Italy are losing their rights
NASA on Thursday officially joined the search for UFOs — but reflecting the stigma attached to the field, the US space agency wouldn’t identify the… Read More »NASA says new program will search for UFOs, declines to identify its director
