By AFPHuman rights advocates including Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai criticised Pakistan on Wednesday for stopping a leading ethnic mino...

By AFPThe US Department of Justice said on Tuesday it would demand that Google make profound changes to how it does business and even consider the pos...

By AFP/Sara HusseinA few dozen kilometres from the Philippine capital Manila sits a coal plant that some hope could be a model for how developing coun...

By UN NewsThe UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, has concluded an urgent visit to Syria, highlighting the plight of 250,000 people who...

By AFP/Johannes LedelAmericans David Baker and John Jumper, together with Briton Demis Hassabis, shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday for...

By UN NewsThe prospect of all-out war in Lebanon appeared undiminished on Wednesday as the head of the UN agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, said t...

By AFP/Agnès PEDREROIncreasingly intense floods and droughts are a "distress signal" of what is to come as climate change makes the planet's water cyc...

By AFP/Benjamin LegendreTwo years after a landmark UN-brokered deal to protect nature from a massive wave of destruction, delegates will gather at a n...

By UN NewsAs Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine approaches its 1,000-day mark, the UN’s top human rights official reiterated his call for Russia...

By AFP/Cecile FeuillatreAsk a Lebanese person how they are, and you're likely to be met with a heavy pause or a pained smile. Years of crisis have dra...

By AFP/Remi BanetThe queue outside Istanbul's Our Lady of Vefa church stretched more than 200 metres, made up of Christians and Muslims chatting anima...

By UN NewsThe situation in Africa’s Great Lakes Region, in particular the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), has remained “alarming” amid ongoing...

By UN NewsAs online tools using various forms of artificial intelligence become increasingly common, calls are growing for more action to ensure that...

By UN NewsTwo bills before the Israeli parliament could put a halt to the lifesaving operations of UN Palestine relief agency, UNRWA, which has been i...

By AFPA group of 14 US states on Tuesday filed lawsuits accusing TikTok of ensnaring young users with addictive features, then harming their minds and...

By AFPAustralia moved Tuesday to protect a swathe of ocean territory by expanding an Antarctic marine park that is home to penguins, seals, whales and...

By UN NewsA Palestinian man living in a refugee camp in northern Gaza has talked of the ‘indescribable’ pain he has experienced over the past year as...

By AFPTaiwanese tech giant Foxconn said on Tuesday it is building the world's largest production plant for US hardware leader Nvidia's GB200 "superchi...

By AFPDeforestation continued last year at a rate far beyond pledges to end the practice by 2030, according to a major study published Tuesday.Forests...

By UN NewsUN humanitarians in Lebanon on Tuesday described the massive challenge of trying to reach some 1.2 million people who have fled heavy Israel...

By AFP/Johannes LedelBritish-Canadian Geoffrey Hinton and American John Hopfield won the Nobel physics prize on Tuesday for their pioneering work on t...

By AFPJila Mossaed fled Iran for Sweden in 1986, a 38-year-old poet who spoke no Swedish. Three decades later, she became the first foreigner inducted...

By UN NewsUN humanitarians have warned that conditions in northern Gaza are deteriorating rapidly, with over 400,000 people facing Israeli evacuation...

By AFP/Claire LeeSlated for demolition, the graffiti-covered building close to the inter-Korean border was once a "monkey house", a clinic for sex wor...