South Sudan’s Kiir pledges country’s first election
South Sudan's leader Salva Kiir on Tuesday pledged that delayed elections set for next year would go ahead as planned...
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Argentina, Brazil take aim at EU’s environmental trade deal conditions
Argentina and Brazil, South America's largest economies, took aim Tuesday at an "unacceptable" EU stance in negotiations with the Mercosur...
Tunisia’s Jabeur ‘100% there’ for WTA in Saudi link
Tunisian star Ons Jabeur has backed the Women's Tennis Association over their decision to evaluate the potential for playing a...
Tunisian stabbed to death in clash with African migrants
Youths in Tunisia called for vengeance on Tuesday at the funeral of a man stabbed to death during a scuffle...
Relief in Senegal and beyond after Sall averts election crisis
Relief swept Senegal and its foreign allies on Tuesday after President Macky Sall said he would not seek a contested...
CAF boss Motsepe intervenes in South Africa women’s team dispute
Africa football boss Patrice Motsepe has intervened to resolve a dispute between the South African women's 2023 World Cup squad...
India’s headhunter warriors sever past, fret over future
Once, the way to get ahead among India's Konyak warriors was by chopping off an enemy's skull. Today, the last...
Crashed N. Korean spy satellite had ‘no military utility’: Seoul
North Korea's first spy satellite had "no military utility" at all, South Korea said Wednesday after analysing its wreckage. In...
Study trips, livestreamed fish: Japan’s Fukushima charm campaign
The problem is massive: the Fukushima Daiichi plant, where several reactors melted down after the 2011 tsunami overwhelmed cooling systems,...
‘Love letters’ from death row: Singapore’s pre-execution photo shoots
Death row inmate Nazeri Lajim beams at the camera, fingers raised in a "V" sign, wearing a shirt emblazoned with...
Dead fish wash up on riverbank in drought-hit Iraq
Thousands of dead fish have washed ashore in southeast Iraq, prompting an official investigation into the wildlife disaster that officials...
Jordan foreign minister, Assad discuss Syria refugees, drug smuggling
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Jordan's top diplomat Ayman Safadi met Monday in Damascus and discussed war refugees and a...
Health fears for Georgia’s jailed ex-leader Saakashvili after TV footage
Former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili appeared on television for the first time in months on Monday, looking frail and emaciated,...
‘Mr. Stony Face’: Senegalese President Macky Sall
Senegal's President Macky Sall, who announced Monday that he would not seek a controversial third term in office, has a...
US ambassador says jailed journalist in Russia in good health
Russia on Monday granted the United States consular access to jailed Wall Street Journal journalist Evan Gershkovich after a more...
UK, Australian PMs wade into Ashes row
The British and Australian prime ministers have traded verbal bouncers after a controversial Test match between the two sides that...
Legal battle looms over London’s expanding vehicle pollution fee
A UK court will on Tuesday consider contentious plans to extend a scheme obliging the most polluting vehicles to pay...
Most Asian markets up as traders weigh outlook on rates, economy
Asian markets mostly rose on Tuesday as investors weighed signs of a slowing US economy against hopes the Federal Reserve's...
Hong Kong leader says wanted activists should give up or live ‘in fear’
Hong Kong's leader called on eight overseas activists to turn themselves in on Tuesday, a day after police put out...
UN talks aim to harness AI power and potential
The United Nations is convening this week a global gathering to try to map out the frontiers of artificial intelligence...
Polish mountaineer dies on Pakistan’s ‘killer mountain’
A Polish mountaineer has died after summiting the world's ninth-highest peak, officials said Tuesday, becoming the first casualty reported in...
France says overnight protest violence falls sharply
Overnight violence in French cities has halved in 24 hours, the interior ministry said Tuesday, a week after riots erupted...
Saudi Deputy Foreign Minister holds High-level meetings with British officials
Saudi Arabia's Deputy Foreign Minister, Waleed Elkhereiji, convened with several high-ranking British officials on Monday. The meetings aimed to foster...
Australia, UK, US condemn Hong Kong bounty for exiled activists
Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States have expressed strong disapproval of the Hong Kong police's recent actions, offering...
China tightens rare metal export rules amid US chip export deliberations
China has announced its decision to impose restrictions on the export of rare metals essential for semiconductor manufacturing. The move...
Kenya’s Ruto lifts six-year logging ban
Kenyan President William Ruto announced Sunday the lifting of a near six-year ban on logging, despite the concerns of environmental...
Kenya’s Ruto lifts six-year logging ban
Kenyan President William Ruto announced Sunday the lifting of a near six-year ban on logging, despite the concerns of environmental...
Climate activists block holes on Spanish golf courses over water use
Climate activists said Sunday they had plugged the holes on 10 golf courses across Spain to protest at the sport's...
Ukraine says Russian troops advancing in ‘fierce fighting’
Ukraine said on Sunday that Russian troops were advancing in four areas in the east of the country amid "fierce...
Sonko urges Senegalese to ‘come out en masse’ ahead of president’s speech
Popular Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko called on the public to "come out en masse" on the eve of a...
‘Drive-throw’ recycling aims to ease Lebanon garbage crisis
Beirut motorists pull up to a drive-through counter -- not for fast-food, but to exchange empty bottles and cardboard for...
Mali’s Junta implements partial government reshuffle
Mali's junta has executed a partial reshuffle of the government. The reshuffling occurred on Saturday, just one day after the...
Moscow launches drone attacks on Kyiv, Ukrainian capital targeted
Russian forces have launched a series of drone attacks on Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, in the early hours of Sunday, marking...
Dozens killed in horrific Kenya road crash
At least 48 people were killed when a truck lost control and ploughed into other vehicles and pedestrians at a...
Police arrest 1,000 in French riots ahead of teen’s funeral
Violence and looting hit France in a fourth night of protests as massively deployed police made nearly 1,000 arrests and...
Dutch king expected to apologize for slavery
King Willem-Alexander is widely expected to make a royal apology for the Netherlands' involvement in slavery on Saturday at an...
Polluting shipping to face climate reckoning
The hefty carbon footprint of global shipping networks that crisscross our oceans and keep the world's economy afloat will come...
Hong Kong leader warns of ‘resistance’ on handover anniversary
Hong Kong's leader said the city must guard against "destructive forces engaging in soft resistance" as it marked the 26th...
Europe’s space telescope to target universe’s dark mysteries
Europe's Euclid space telescope is scheduled to blast off Saturday on the first-ever mission aiming to shed light on two...
Night of fires, looting in Lille as protests sweep France
A burned district office, another pelted with stones, "lots of looting": in Lille, in the north of France, a game...
DR Congo sets up scheme to save informal cobalt miners from swindlers
Scruffy depots packed with bags of ore line a road leading to the Democratic Republic of Congo's mining capital Kolwezi,...
‘Significant threat’: Around world, doctors battle impersonators
AFP's fact-checkers have exposed a slew of cases around the world in which fraudsters impersonated doctors, fabricating their comments or...
IMF, Pakistan reach $3 billion deal
Pakistan could get temporary relief for its ballooning foreign debt with a new deal worth $3 billion, the IMF has...
‘No future’: Egyptians risk lives at sea to reach Europe
Hoping to escape a dire economy and bleak prospects, Egyptians are increasingly attempting the perilous sea crossing to Europe that...
Indian court dismisses Twitter plea on takedown orders
An Indian court on Friday fined Twitter $61,000 after dismissing its plea challenging orders to remove tweets and accounts critical...
French President Macron calls for end to riots, urges parents, social media firms to act
French President Emmanuel Macron has made an appeal to parents to prevent their children from participating in the ongoing riots...
Protests erupt in Baghdad after Quran burning incident in Sweden
In response to a highly controversial incident involving the burning of a Quran outside a mosque in Stockholm, Sweden, hundreds...
US urges appeals court to uphold Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex trafficking conviction
The US government has urged an appeals court to uphold Ghislaine Maxwell’s conviction and 20-year prison sentence for helping the...
Astronomers reveal evidence of universe’s ‘background hum’
Astronomers across the world announced on Thursday that they have found the first evidence of a long-theorized form of gravitational...
Guard, gunman die in attack at US consulate in Jeddah: police
A security guard and a gunman were killed in an exchange of gunfire in front of the US consulate in...
‘Presumed human remains’ discovered in Titan sub wreckage
Experts have recovered presumed human remains from what is left of the Titan sub that imploded during a dive to...
‘Godfather of AI’ urges governments to stop machine takeover
Geoffrey Hinton, one of the so-called godfathers of artificial intelligence, urged governments on Wednesday to step in and make sure...
Rwandan ex-policeman gets life over genocide: Paris court
A Paris court on Wednesday found a former Rwandan military policeman guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity during the...
UN troops set to leave Mali, but how fast?
With the imminent end of the UN's Mali peacekeeping mission seemingly no longer in doubt, negotiations at the UN are...
After long wait, Virgin Galactic begins commercial spaceflights
Virgin Galactic is set Thursday to finally begin commercial spaceflights, a major milestone for the company founded in 2004 by...
Iraq’s prized modern art plagued by forgery, trafficking
Many masterpieces of Iraqi painting were looted or destroyed during the years of war, but now the country's artistic heritage...
‘Hostage situation’: Egypt’s decade-long rights crackdown
Ten years ago, Egypt's then-defense minister Abdel Fattah al-Sisi rallied citizens by promising to move the country out of the...
Gulf oil states on a Pacific charm offensive
Gulf oil states are using their vast wealth to build influence across the far-flung South Pacific, experts have told AFP,...
Sri Lanka unveils debt restructure plan to tackle economic crisis
Sri Lanka's central bank on Thursday unveiled a far-reaching domestic debt restructuring plan aimed at restoring stability after an economic...
EU presses Tunisia in bid to stem Med migrant flow
EU leaders meeting in Brussels on Thursday are to look at ways to press aid on Tunisia in a bid...
