Thousands of impoverished Gazans received $100 payments from Qatar on Saturday, AFP journalists said, after the Gulf emirate brought in over $9 million in aid funds for the Palestinian enclave. Hundreds of people queued at post offices in the Gaza Strip to each collect a $100 bill....

US President Donald Trump has yielded to pressure to end the longest government shutdown in US history, dropping his previous insistence on immediate funding to build a wall along the Mexican border. Friday's announcement on the bipartisan deal marked a retreat by Trump, suspending a political...

Russia and the US resisted on Friday efforts by the UN Security Council to take a tougher stand on climate change -- a day after UN chief Antonio Guterres warned of a lack of political will to fight global warming. More than 80 people including about 15 ministers -- a record according to...

A deal between Serbia and Kosovo is possible this year but cannot include border changes, Kosovo's premier Ramush Haradinaj told AFP in an interview, warning that territory swaps could revive old demons in the war-scarred Balkans. The idea that Serbia and Kosovo -- a former southern...