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The funeral of 14-year-old Palestinian-American Amir Mohammed Rabee was held Monday in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, one day after the dual national from New Jersey was shot and killed there. Two other teenage boys, one...

Some 8,000 Indigenous people from the Amazon rainforest and the Pacific converged on Brazil's capital Monday to demand an equal say as politicians when the country hosts this year's UN climate conference.Members of about 200 Indigenous communities from Latin...

A billionaire backer of Donald Trump has urged the US president to pause his recently announced trade tariffs, or risk "a self-induced, economic nuclear winter".Amid market turmoil, hedge fund manager Bill Ackman said the president should take three months...

The Palestine Red Crescent Society has called for an independent international inquiry into Israel's killing of 15 emergency workers in southern Gaza.The organisation released the full video found on the phone of one of its eight paramedics who died...

Algeria has closed its airspace to all flights to and from Mali as the row over a drone that was shot down close to their common border escalates.On Sunday, Mali accused its northern neighbour of being a sponsor and...

German police officers found themselves face-to-face with two zebras, six monkeys and several other exotic animals after stopping a van on the Dutch border, the force said on Monday.Also on board were an antelope, a swan, a buzzard and...

President Donald Trump's administration has asked the Supreme Court to block lower court rulings requiring that a man deported to El Salvador be returned to the US.A federal judge in Maryland ordered the government to bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia...

A Belgian prince's attempt to claim social security benefits on top of his six-figure royal allowance has been rejected by a court.Prince Laurent - the younger brother of King Philippe - received €388,000 (£295,850; $376,000) from state funds last...

A 99-year-old former secretary at the Stutthof concentration camp convicted for aiding and abetting the mass murder of more than 10,000 people between June 1943 and April 1945 has died, prosecutors said on Monday.The woman, identified under German privacy...

Natasha Booty & Emery MakumenoBBC News, London & KinshasaAFPThe floods have also left people across much of Kinshasa struggling with water shortages, after water treatment pumps in the city were themselves inundated.The city's busiest road, which connects the centre...