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Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador says he doesn't want war with the cartels
World
08.08.2024
US President Donald Trump offered Tuesday to help Mexico "wage war" on its cartels after three women and six children from an American Mormon community were murdered in an area notorious for drug traffickers.
Junius Ho has become one of the most loathed establishment figures among democracy protesters
World
08.08.2024
A firebrand pro-Beijing politician in Hong Kong was wounded in a knife attack on Wednesday, the latest tit-for-tat political violence to break out in a city engulfed by months of pro-democracy protests. 
Sudan's Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok visits a camp for the displaced in El-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur state in the war-devastated western region
World
08.08.2024
Sudan's Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok said Monday his government was working towards bringing peace to war-torn Darfur as he met hundreds of victims of the conflict who demanded swift justice.
Lebanese schoolchildren have joined the protests that have rocked the country since October 17, demanding better public education and more job opportunities for school leavers
World
08.08.2024
Hundreds of schoolchildren led anti-government demonstrations across Lebanon on Wednesday, refusing to return to class before the demands of a nearly three-week-old protest movement are met. 
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Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attends the signing of a power sharing deal between the Saudi-backed Yemeni government and southern separatists that observers say could pave the way for a wider peace deal
World 08.08.2024
Riyadh is in talks with Yemen's Iran-backed Huthi rebels in a bid to end the country's civil war, a Saudi official said Wednesday in the first official confirmation of dialogue between the two sides.
Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi's first response to the deadly protests that swept Baghdad and the south last month was to offer his resignation but officials say pressure from Iran and its Iraqi allies has convinced him to stay on
World 08.08.2024
Iraq PM sees power clipped by rivals amid pro-Iran pressure: sources
Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attends the signing of a power sharing deal between the Saudi-backed Yemeni government and southern separatists that observers say could pave the way for a wider peace deal
World 08.08.2024
Riyadh in talks with Yemen rebels, Saudi official says
Juli Briskman, whose one-handed salute was captured by an AFP photographer, has beaten the Republican incumbent to a seat on the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors
World 08.08.2024
Cyclist who flipped off US president wins local election
French President Emmanuel Macron and Chinese leader Xi Jinping put on a united front on the Paris climate accord after Washington pulled out
World 08.08.2024
Xi, Macron unite on climate after US withdraws from Paris pact
A Malaysian man was sentenced to 34 months in jail for killing a pregnant cat by stuffing it into a laundrette dryer
World 08.08.2024
Malaysia hands jail term to laundrette cat killer
Thailand's three southernmost provinces have been in the grip of a conflict that has killed more than 7,000 people
World 08.08.2024
15 killed in suspected rebel attacks in Thailand's south: army 
"I haven't felt this kind of welcome in a long time," Alsop told AFP after a recent rehearsal 
World 08.08.2024
Vienna orchestra celebrates 50th birthday with new woman chief
French prosecutors estimate that 17 alleged victims, aged 17 to 38, made up to 150,000 euros ($166,000) a month for the syndicate, selling sex for as little as 10 euros
World 08.08.2024
Nigerian 'sex slavery' ring goes on trial in France
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