From orbit, Emi Koussi’s dramatic caldera and lava-scarred slopes hint at its fiery past, while dried lakebeds and erosion ...

A wide swath of eastern Morocco is part of the Sahara Desert, shared with neighboring Algeria and several other African nations including Libya, Chad, Niger, Mali and Egypt. We arrived in the heat ...

The French Development Agency (AFD) said it would invest 150 million euros ($167 million) in Western Sahara in 2025-2026, following Paris' recognition of Morocco's sovereignty over the disputed desert ...

Algeria, Africa’s largest country, is throwing its doors open to record numbers of visitors. Roman ruins and trekking through ...

Today's news: Hamas announces it will release an Israeli-American hostage; In South Korea, the presidential election campaign begins ahead of the 3 June vote; The ceasefire between India and ...

PALO ALTO, CA – Stanford University has announced that Usha Iyer will lead the Center for South Asia in the 2025–26 academic year. Iyer, an associate professor in the Department of Art and Art ...

The archbishop emeritus of Bombay (Mumbai), representative of Asia on Pope Francis’s Council of Cardinals, wrote to AsiaNews about the new pope. “He brings hopes, expectations, understanding ...

Highs will climb above those in Death Valley, California and parts of the Sahara Desert. Del Rio, Texas is expected to see temperatures up to 110 degrees. A heat wave coming to Texas this week is ...

Temperatures will break the 100-degree mark across Texas this week. Highs will climb above those in Death Valley, California and parts of the Sahara Desert. Del Rio, Texas is expected to see ...