Pope Francis: Laws criminalizing LGBT are sin and injustice
Pope Francis arrives to address the media while aboard the plane from Juba to Rome on Feb 5, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE — Pope Francis said...
Eight killed in mass shooting at birthday party in South Africa
Members of the Forensic Pathology Services stand near their vehicles on the scene of a mass shooting in Gqeberha, South Africa, on Jan 29, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) JOHANNESBURG –...
EU eyes repatriating more people to Africa, Middle East, Asia
In this Oct 30, 2022 photo, a boy fishes as police border guards on a boat patrol along the Evros River that forms a natural border between Greece and Turkey,...
Peru arrests 200 in Lima; Machu Picchu ordered closed
People protest outside the Police Investigation Operations Center - DIRINCRI to demand the release of those arrested at the campus of the University of San Marcos in Lima on Jan...
Lula to purge Bolsonaro loyalists from security after rampage
Federal Interventor Ricardo Cappelli (center) inspects military troops as they wait for a protest announced by supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro, in Brasilia, Brazil, on Jan 11, 2023. (GUSTAVO...
Prince Harry hits out at press over reports of Afghan killings
Pedestrians pass a display in the window of a book shop in London, Jan 10, 2023. (KIRSTY WIGGLESWORTH / AP) LONDON - Britain's Prince Harry has hit back at "hurtful"...
Gunmen kidnap 32 people from southern Nigeria train station
Nigerian Railway Corporation personnel are seen on a platform as a train speeds by at the Idu Railway Station during the resumption of Abuja-Kaduna train railway operations in Abuja, Nigeria’s...
Puerto Rico independence vote bill passes US House
In this Feb 9, 2022 photo, a person holds a Puerto Rican flag in front of the Capitol building during a protest of teachers demanding salary increases and better working...
Four dead after migrant boat capsizes off English coast
In this Oct 12, 2022 file photo, migrants sail after boarding a smuggler's boat on the beach of Gravelines, near Dunkirk, northern France, in an attempt to cross the English...
Children dying in Somalia as food catastrophe worsens
Buulaay Ibrahim (left), 75, an internally displaced person who fled her village due to an increase in violence, sits at Limaan Camp in Mogadishu on Dec 6, 2022 in front...
UN seeks $51.5b for ‘shockingly high’ humanitarian aid needs
A girl watches as Afghan burqa-clad health workers administer polio vaccine drops to a child during a vaccination campaign in Bihsud district of Nangarhar province on October 17, 2022. (PHOTO...
Zimbabwean top official warns of COVID-19 resurgence
A man is tested for COVID-19 at a private health center in Harare, Zimbabwe, Feb 3, 2022. (TSVANGIRAYI MUKWAZHI / AP) HARARE / MOSCOW / OTTAWA - Zimbabwe's COVID-19 response...
Climate justice gets harder as world population passes 8 billion
In this photograph taken on October 31, 2022, people walk through a crowded commercial street in Chennai. India is projected to see an explosion in its urban population in the...
Climate disasters put plight of displaced in COP27 focus
A Somali woman and children carry water at a camp for displaced people on the outskirts of Dollow, Somalia on Sept 20, 2022. (JEROME DELAY / FILE / AP) SHARM...
Nineteen dead in Egypt after bus falls into canal
People walk past a damaged minibus that was pulled out of a water canal following a crash in al-Dayris village near the Nile Delta city of Mansoura in the Dakahlia...
Venezuela blasts EU’s decision to renew sanctions
The shadows of synthetic macaws are cast on the pavement backdropped by a mural of a macaw as pedestrians wearing protective face masks walk past, in the Petare neighborhood of...
Drought highlights climate woes
East Africa among regions hit hardest, as hopes pinned on Egypt talks Maasai women gather to watch Maasai morans, or warriors, take part in an Olng'esherr ceremony at the foot...
Suicide bomber ‘kills over a dozen in Somali capital’
In this file photo dated Oct 30, 2022, a local resident looks at debris from a destroyed buildings in Mogadishu on Oct 30, 2022 after an car bombing targeted the...
Over 14.8m US children infected with COVID-19
People make their way through Times Square, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Manhattan, New York City, US, May 07, 2021. (EDUARDO MUNOZ / REUTERS) LOS ANGELES / NEW...
Chad climate disaster leaves record 2.1m people hungry
A woman holds a dead fish at the Kalambari refugee camp 30km near N'Djamena on July 14, 2022. (AURELIE BAZZARA-KIBANGULA / AFP) N'DJAMENA - Severe drought followed by the worst...