A small Japanese town begins erecting a barrier to block views of the country's most famous sight, Mount Fuji, after locals ...

South Sudan said Friday that UN agencies and other organisations would be exempt from taxes on humanitarian goods after a row over transport charges held up deliveries of desperately needed aid.

A military court in the Democratic Republic of Congo's war-torn east on Friday handed a death sentence to eight soldiers, including five officers, for desertion and cowardice when fighting M23 rebels.

An Israeli military ground assault into Gaza's southern city of Rafah, where humanitarian aid groups estimate 1.2 million Palestinians are sheltering, could end in a "bloodbath", the WHO warned Friday ...

Airbnb on Friday agreed with French authorities to step up the fight against rentals on its platform being used for sex work during the Paris Olympics this summer and beyond.

Floods caused by torrential rainstorms killed four hikers in the Sulaimaniyah region of northern Iraq on Friday, local officials told AFP.

Five Israeli human rights groups that took Israel to court over restrictions on aid to war-torn Gaza said Friday the state's insistence that it has met its obligations was "incomprehensible". Gisha ...

France has for the first time been invited to commemorate the battle of Dien Bien Phu, which led to French troops' defeat in Vietnam and marked the country's last stand in colonial Indochina, Paris ...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday said Turkey's move to halt trade with Israel was designed to force the country to a ceasefire in Gaza.

Tunisian authorities in the early hours of Friday expelled hundreds of sub-Saharan asylum-seekers, migrants and refugees from encampments in the capital Tunis, a non-governmental organisation said.

About 1,000 refugees have fled a UN-run camp in northern Ethiopia after reports of armed robbery, shootings and alleged abductions, the United Nations said on Friday.

Spain's left-wing government said on Friday it would scrap a national prize for bullfighting, a move which angered supporters of the controversial spectacle but was welcomed by animal rights groups.