The situation for media workers around the world at the moment is "bleak", Ressa told AFP in an interview, saying much of the blame lies with the dramatic shift in the way information is distributed. Speaking on the sidelines of an event in Geneva ...

This oil embargo is a long time incoming. At first it was held up by German opposition who were worried that it would do more damage to the EU economy than to the Russian economy but eventually last week, Germany decided that it could live with a ph...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi becomes the first world leader to have a face-to-face meeting with his frequently cited “friend” Emmanuel Macron following the French president’s re-election victory. While India, unlike France, still refuse...

While experts have warned that Russia's war in Ukraine could cause famine, the FAO said in an annual report that nearly 40 million more people were pushed into "acute food insecurity" in 2021. Among 53 countries facing the problem, the most affecte...

Thousands turned out in New York City on Tuesday to protest the possible reversal of abortion rights after a leaked draft opinion suggested the US Supreme Court was preparing to overturn Roe v. Wade, which established abortion rights nationwide i...

The treaty was the first in the world to contain specific measures to protect the human rights of environmental defenders and Costa Rica had been the driving force behind it. Outgoing President Carlos Alvarado had asked lawmakers to ratify the agre...

France's Socialist party and the hard-left La France Insoumise (LFI) party have reached an agreement in principle to form an alliance for the June parliament vote, LFI politician Adrien Quatennens said on Franceinfo radio on Wednesday.

China has been battling its worst coronavirus flare-up since the early days of the pandemic, with most cases found in the business hub of Shanghai. Scenes of chaos and anger at weeks of stay-at-home orders in Shanghai have alarmed people in the cap...

Tea is the island nation's biggest export commodity, bringing in about $1.3 billion annually before the current economic downturn, the worst since independence in 1948. But a bungled ban on fertiliser imports last year -- introduced in a doomed eff...

Russian forces backed by tanks stormed the Azovstal steel works Tuesday. It is the first time Russian armed combat vehicles and soldiers have attacked the plant. Up to this point, Moscow's forces had been shelling the factory from above. 

Archaeologists excavating the city, which was destroyed by the eruption of nearby Vesuvius in 79 AD, were initially startled to discover erotic images everywhere, from garden statues to ceiling frescos. Since those first digs in the 18th-century si...

Brooks was tossed from a bruising game two of their NBA playoff series after less than three minutes of the first quarter for an ugly mid-air challenge that flattened Payton as he drove for a basket. Payton, an increasingly influential figure for G...

But that might be said of "Guerre" (War) by one of France's most celebrated and controversial literary figures, Louis-Ferdinand Celine, which arrives in bookstores on Thursday, some 78 years after its manuscript disappeared. Celine's reputation ha...

But one chequered design at the Macnaughton Holdings' giant factory in Keith stands out for its unconventional colours: yellow and royal blue. For a few weeks now, the Great Scot company, a client of the firm, has been weaving its "Ukraine Forever ...

Her hair covered with a hijab and a veil falling below her eyes, she evades the attention of fans and detractors. "It’s funny that people don’t recognise me, they play my songs but when I'm in front of them they don't know it’s me," the 22-y...