Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

At fairgrounds full of young men, the government sets up shop to hire immigration agents.

Officials warn a rift in the Budshishiyya order could strengthen Islamist currents, particularly as protests over Gaza intensify.

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China holds its biggest-ever military parade to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War Two in Asia, a display of new weapons and projection of Beijing's military might amid regional tensions.

Researchers have unearthed tooth fossils in Ethiopia dating to about 2.65 million years ago of a previously unknown species in the human evolutionary lineage, one that lived in the same time and place as the earliest-known member of the genus Homo to which our own species belongs.

“I think the most important thing you need to know about Sudan is that it's a place where a group of countries that are sometimes called the middle powers – not superpowers, they’re not all big countries – are fueling the war for their own purposes,” says Atlantic staff writer and Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Anne Applebaum, after spending weeks in the country during its ongoing civil war, alongside Pulitzer Prize-winning Photojournalist Lynsey Addario. At the same time, the forces of peacemaking are no longer around – entities like the United Nations, the United States and the like. As a result, “The UNHCR was operating at a fraction of its budget because the donors just have not come through in recent years,” says Addario. “UNHCR didn't even have a budget to provide them with any shelter. They couldn't provide any hot meals. They couldn't provide anything, really, because they had no budget.”