Kenya's former president Uhuru Kenyatta, one of the key players in African Union-led efforts to bring peace to Ethiopia, said Friday he would not be attending negotiations expected to begin...

UN aviation agency members reached an agreement Friday to try to achieve by 2050 net-zero carbon emissions in air travel -- often criticized for its outsized role in climate change....

Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara on Friday hinted at a possible breakthrough in a bitter dispute with Mali, which has held 46 Ivorian soldiers for three months and branded them...

The Russian rights group Memorial is honoured to have been jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize but it should have gone to political prisoners such as Alexei Navalny, who risk...

An agreement was reached on Friday to try to achieve net-zero carbon emissions in air travel by 2050, the International Civil Aviation Organization said. The assembly, which brought together representatives...

France has created a fund, initially worth 100 million euros ($98 million), for Ukraine to directly buy weapons and other materiel it needs in its war against invading Russia, President...

Member states of the International Civil Aviation Organization agreed during a meeting at its Montreal headquarters on Friday to try to reach net-zero carbon emissions in air travel by 2050....

France has created a fund, initially worth 100 million euros ($98 million), for Ukraine to directly buy weapons and other materiel it needs in its war against invading Russia, President...

Human rights watchdogs from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, with the jury criticising Russian President Vladimir Putin's "authoritarian" regime as he waged war in...

Ales Bialiatski, the head of Belarus rights group Viasna, has battled against repression for a quarter of a century and spent years in jail for his efforts. He spent his...

Belarusian rights campaigner Ales Bialiatski, who was jailed in July 2021, is the fourth laureate to win the Nobel Peace Prize whilst behind bars. Bialiatski, 60, on Friday shared the...

A trio of human rights watchdogs from Belarus, Russia and Ukraine won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, a highly symbolic choice of laureates drawn from three nations at the...

Belarus on Friday denounced the Nobel Committee for handing its prestigious peace prize to imprisoned activist Ales Bialiatski, saying its founder Alfred Nobel was "turning in his grave." "In recent...

Russian President Vladimir Putin should face an "international tribunal", the head of Ukraine's Center for Civil Liberties said Friday after the group was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize. To "give...

Russian President Vladimir Putin should face an "international tribunal", the head of Ukraine's Center for Civil Liberties said Friday after the group was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize. To "give...

Here is the full list of Nobel Peace Prize laureates from 1901, when the prize was first awarded: 2022: Ales Bialiatski (Belarus), Memorial (Russia) and the Center for Civil Liberties...

Russian rights group Memorial, a key pillar of Russian civil society that has been forced to shut down, on Friday denounced a new court hearing after being awarded a Nobel...

The executive director of Ukraine's Center for Civil Liberties said Friday the group was "happy" after it was awarded the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize. "We are happy", executive director Oleksandra...

A trio of human rights champions from Belarus, Russia and Ukraine won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, a highly symbolic choice of laureates drawn from three nations at the...

Burkina Faso's new rulers say they seized power to better fight jihadists, but history in the Sahel suggests the coup will merely stoke turbulence and division, benefitting the insurgents, analysts...

French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday hailed the Belarusian, Ukrainian and Russian winners of this year's Nobel Peace Prize as "unswerving defenders of human rights in Europe". "Ales Bialiatski, the...

The Norwegian Nobel Committee said on Friday that Russian President Vladimir Putin was presiding over suppression of human rights as it handed out its annual peace prize. While the committee...

EU chief Ursula von der Leyen on Friday saluted the "courage" of the Ukrainian, Russian and Belarusian rights activists awarded this year's Nobel Peace Prize. "The Nobel Prize committee has...

Ales Bialiatski, the head of Belarus rights group Viasna who was jailed last year, won the Nobel Peace Prize in the wake of historic demonstrations and a severe crackdown in...

Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya said Friday that the decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize to jailed rights defender Ales Bialiatski was "recognition for all Belarusians fighting for freedom...

The Nobel Peace Prize was on Friday awarded to human rights champions Ales Bialiatski of Belarus, Russia's Memorial group and Ukraine's Center for Civil Liberties for their work to document...

The Norwegian Nobel Committee on Friday called for the release of Belarusian human rights advocate and Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski, currently held in Belarus for tax evasion. "Our message...

More than one million people have been displaced in Myanmar since the military coup last year, the United Nations children's agency has said. The Southeast Asian nation has been in...

US and Philippine marines stormed a beach near a disputed rocky outcrop in the South China Sea on Friday as part of joint military drills involving more than 3,500 troops....

Ukraine's Defence Minister Oleksiy Reznikov on Friday called on Russian troops to lay down their arms, promising them "life and safety." "You can still save Russia from tragedy and the...