Thousands of supporters of powerful Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr protested Saturday in a new show of strength three days after storming parliament in a country mired in crises.

Australia's constitution currently does not recognise Indigenous peoples, and the move to enshrine a so-called "voice" -- a consultative body to supply advice to the government on decisions that would impact the marginalised group -- in the document...

The declaration came a day after Moscow and Kyiv accused each other of bombing a jail holding Ukrainian prisoners of war in Russian-held territory, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky saying more than 50 were killed and calling the attack a ...

Brandishing Iraqi flags and portraits of Sadr, the protesters gathered at the end of a bridge leading to Baghdad's heavily fortified "Green Zone" district of government buildings and foreign embassies, an AFP correspondent reported. "All the people...

The city is gradually recovering from its most serious outbreak to date, which earlier this month led officials to shutter casinos and most businesses for nearly two weeks. As temperatures reached 34 degrees Celsius (93 degrees Fahrenheit) on Satur...

Pope Francis again asked for forgiveness after meeting on Friday with residential school survivors in the Arctic territory of Nunavut, the last stop in his six-day visit to Canada to apologize to indigenous people for abuse in government schools run...

The Asian finance hub has been cut off from the world for more than two years, as it hews to its own version of China's strict zero-Covid rules. International flights remain well below pre-pandemic levels and all arrivals must currently undergo a ...

A US judge Friday ordered the military chief of eastern Libya, Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, to compensate Libyan plaintiffs who allege he ordered the torture and extrajudicial killings of their family members.

Spain and Brazil reported their first monkeypox-related deaths on Friday, marking what are thought to be the first fatalities linked to the current outbreak outside of Africa.

Russian energy giant Gazprom has suspended gas supplies to Latvia, the company said Saturday, following tensions between Moscow and the West over the war in Ukraine and sweeping European and US sanctions against Russia. Follow FRANCE 24's liveblog f...

The House passed legislation Friday to revive a ban on certain semi-automatic guns, the first vote of its kind in years and a direct response to the firearms often used in the crush of mass shootings ripping through communities nationwide.

Two of Foster's assistants were fired last week, following NZ Rubgy's review into a 2-1 defeat to Ireland, the All Blacks' first series loss on home soil for 28 years. Foster, however, managed to cling to his job. On Saturday, NZ Rugby chief execu...

"There were no new fever patients reported" over a 24-hour period from Thursday evening, the state-run Korean Central News Agency said, marking the first time the isolated country had reported no new cases since it began tallying numbers in May. Wh...

Visibility underwater can exceed 100 metres (330 feet) and the spectacle of light and darkness is hypnotic. "When we entered the water, it was...," says Icelandic tourist Brynjolfur Bragason before pausing. "Incredible," adds his wife Hildur Orrad...

The business, handed down from father to son, "is slowly disappearing", Saif told AFP. "The bees are being hit by strange phenomenons. Is it due to climate change or the effects of war? We really don't know." Yemen, one of the world's most impoveri...