Thousands of supporters of a Pakistan Islamist party who blocked major roads to protest the arrest of their leader also disrupted critical oxygen supplies for Covid-19 patients, health officials said Tuesday. Major intersections remained closed in ...

Britain said late Monday it had hit a target to offer a coronavirus vaccine first dose to all over-50s by mid-April, as England's lockdown-weary population toasted a significant easing of restrictions with pints and much-needed haircuts. Prime Mini...

Some 50 NGOs on Tuesday called for a fresh approach to fighting jihadism in Africa's vast Sahel region, including dialogue with insurgents and protecting civilians from soldiers. The insurgency is linked to the Islamic State group (IS) which, like ...

A Hong Kong newspaper linked to a spiritual group banned in China said Tuesday it would "never back down" after a gang of sledgehammer-wielding men ransacked its printing presses. The assault on the Epoch Times was captured on CCTV and comes as Chi...

Iran's foreign ministry said Monday it is suspending cooperation with the European Union in various fields following the bloc's decision to blacklist several Iranian security officials over a 2019 protest crackdown.

Steph Curry erupted with 53 points to pass Wilt Chamberlain's all-time Golden State scoring record on Monday as the Warriors downed the Denver Nuggets 116-107. Curry -- who started the game needing only 19 points to overtake Chamberlain's tally of ...

A UN rights expert has urged Laos to free three activists serving long prison sentences for criticising the country's authoritarian communist government. The trio -- Somphone Phimmasone, Soukan Chaithad and Lodkham Thammavong -- were jailed in 2017...

The German government is expected to agree Tuesday on controversial changes to a national infections control law which would hand Berlin more centralised power to impose sweeping measures to curb the raging coronavirus pandemic. The proposed change...

The first men's major of 2021 dominates AFP Sport's golf talking points this week: - Take a bow - Hideki Matsuyama had tears in his eyes after his final putt Sunday as he became the first Japanese man to win a major, but his caddie also made headl...

A judge on Brazil's Supreme Federal Court on Monday suspended parts of four decrees issued by President Jair Bolsonaro relaxing the country's gun control laws. Bolsonaro issued the decrees on February 12, and they were to go into effect Tuesday. Ju...

"Boko Haram was in my house!" three-year-old Aisha said with a frown, sat next to her mother Hadiza in a run-down camp for internally displaced people (IDPs) in Nigeria's northeastern city of Maiduguri. The little girl froze with fear on seeing the...

The hillside Jewish cemetery in northern Ethiopia was never supposed to get so big. The thousands of Ethiopian Jews buried there had hoped to die in Israel, but steep and often insurmountable hurdles foiled their plans to immigrate. "I hope Israel...

Fresh protests broke out Tuesday night in Minneapolis despite a curfew implemented after a police officer fatally shot a young Black man when she confused her handgun with her taser, fueling tensions in a US city already on edge because of the Georg...

The US State Department announced Monday it will send a senior official to voice the administration's "concern" over the worsening social and political situation in Lebanon. Under-secretary for political affairs David Hale, the third-highest rankin...