Opinion

The US forces that led the coalition against the Islamic State group will complete their withdrawal from Syria within a month, three sources told AFP on Monday, as troops began leaving a major base.

An estimated seven million Venezuelans have fled their homeland due to the political and economic crisis and many opposition figures live in exile.

Farmers' unions engaged a US lobbying firm late last year to raise their plight in Washington in the hopes of a funding breakthrough, according to a public disclosure filing.

The new Dutch government will be sworn in on Monday, with 38-year-old centrist Rob Jetten set to be the country's youngest-ever prime minister and the first openly gay one.

More than 200 Venezuelan political prisoners were on hunger strike on Sunday to demand their release under a new amnesty law that excludes many of them.