Cristiano Ronaldo's Saudi club Al Nassr announced the departure of Portuguese coach Luis Castro on Tuesday, a day after starting their AFC Champions League Elite campaign with a disappointing draw.Monday's 1-1 stalemate with Iraq's Al Shorta in the...
Nothing justifies Israel's collective punishment of the people of Gaza as they endure "unimaginable" suffering, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told AFP on Monday.Guterres lashed out at Israel's handling of its war in the devastated Palestinian territory, now almost...
A Pakistani man with alleged ties to Iran pleaded not guilty Monday to plotting to assassinate a US official in retaliation for the American military killing of Revolutionary Guards commander Qassem Soleimani, prosecutors said Wednesday.Asif Raza Merchant, 46,...
Israel's Defence Minister Yoav Gallant told a visiting US envoy on Monday that prospects were dimming for a halt to nearly a year of fighting with Hamas ally Hezbollah in Lebanon.The Iran-backed Lebanese armed group has traded regular...
Each year the world produces around 400 million tonnes of plastic waste, much of it discarded after just a few minutes of use.Negotiators hope to reach the world's first treaty on plastic pollution this year, but across five...
Moroccan police pushed back hundreds of people on Sunday who headed towards the Spanish exclave of Ceuta, an AFP photographer said, after social media posts encouraged crossing attempts.Ceuta and its sister territory of Melilla, wedged on the North...
A senior Hamas official told AFP on Sunday that the Palestinian Islamist movement had ample resources to continue fighting Israel despite losses sustained over more than 11 months of war in Gaza."The resistance has a high ability to...
The Israeli military said a missile fired from Yemen crossed into central Israel on Sunday and "fell in an open area".It said in a statement that "a surface-to-surface missile was identified crossing into central Israel from the East...
Off a quiet Tunisian island, Sara Souissi readies her small fishing boat. As a woman in the male-dominated trade, she rows against entrenched patriarchy but also environmental threats to her livelihood.Souissi began fishing as a teenager in a...
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees said Friday one of its employees was killed during an Israeli operation in the occupied West Bank, where raids have escalated since last month.Israel's military called the UN worker a "terrorist" who...
