LIMA, July 29 — We are offering the following story that has been selected by AFP’s chief editors for re-publication as among the best of the week. For fervent Keiko […]

RIYADH, July 29 — A minister in Yemen’s internationally recognised government today accused Houthi rebels of working under Iranian guidance to establish a system to impose fees for ships transiting

LONDON, July 29 — British Prime Minister Andy Burnham today relaunched his years-long bid to create a national service to tackle a UK crisis in the care of elderly and vulnerable

LONDON, July 29 — Just over half of England, comprising swathes of the country’s central, eastern and southern regions, has been declared in drought following “record-low rain and exceptionally high temperatures”,

NEW DELHI, July 29 —India’s lower house of parliament approved a bill today that would toughen penalties for leaking exam papers, after youth-led protests calling for sweeping reforms forced the

KUMAMOTO, July 29 — Rescuers battled through the tangled wreckage of a Japanese shopping mall today searching for any trapped survivors after a big earthquake killed at least 13 people.

TOKYO, July 29 — The number of Japanese people living in the country has fallen below 120 million for the first time in 42 years, government data showed today, as the

GENEVA, July 29 — Two years after the International Court of Justice said Israel’s occupation of the West Bank was unlawful, settler violence and territorial annexation is “only getting worse”,

PATNA (India), July 29 — Indian security forces have arrested a Maoist leader believed to be one of the last senior members of a decades-long insurgency in the country, officials

BEIJING, July 29 — Beijing accused the United States on Wednesday of seeking to “suppress” Chinese companies, after Washington banned imports of humanoid and quadruped robots manufactured abroad. Most humanoid