The World Bank will provide $1bn in direct budget support to Ethiopia in the next few months, the prime minister has said, more than 13 years...
For Nermin Saydam, a 35-year-old Palestinian NGO worker, the United States’ decision to cut $200m of economic aid to the occupied West Bank and the besieged Gaza...
Concerns are growing over the physical and psychological health of scores of migrants and refugees stranded for a 10th day aboard an Italian coastguard ship, after...
China has said it is “irresponsible” of President Trump to suggest it was not putting enough pressure on North Korea over its nuclear program. Mr Trump...
Pope Francis has said he is ashamed of the Catholic Church’s failure to adequately address the “repellent crimes” of sex abuse by clergy. The Irish prime...
Austrian officials rejected an Iraqi migrant’s asylum application because he was too “girlish”, local media say. The 27-year-old’s claim to be gay was deemed “unbelievable”, in...
A man has killed two people, reportedly his mother and sister, and wounded a third person on a street in a Paris suburb before being killed...
In Ubang, a farming community in southern Nigeria, men and women say they speak different languages. They view this unique difference as “a blessing from God”,...
An anaesthetist killed his wife and 16-year-old daughter using a yoga ball filled with carbon monoxide, a Hong Kong court has heard. Prosecutors said Khaw Kim-sun...
Venezuela has rolled out a new currency, slashing five zeroes from the bolivar, in a bid to tame the country’s rampant hyperinflation, but critics say the...
Ahead of Pope Francis’ scheduled visit to Ireland, an international research group launched a database of Irish clergy convicted or credibly accused of sexually abusing children....