By AFP/Steven TRASKChina tried to mislead foreign governments in 2024 by playing down the importance of a nuclear-capable missile test over the Pacific Ocean, New Zealand diplomats privately warned in documents obtained by AFP.Beijing sent shivers th...

By AFP/Johannes LEDELMost of the world's nuclear-armed states continued to modernise their arsenals last year, setting the stage for a new nuclear arms race, researchers warned Monday.The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) said...

By AFP/Robin MILLARDNuclear-armed states spent more than $100 billion on their atomic arsenals last year, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons said Friday, lamenting the lack of democratic oversight of such spending.ICAN said Britain...

By AFP/Menna Zaki and Ramin Khanizadeh with Benoit Finck and Alice ChancellorIran fired a barrage of ballistic missiles at Israel in a counter-strike Friday, after the Zionist regime's unprecedented onslaught hammered the Islamic republic's top milit...

By AFP/Amélie BOTTOLLIER-DEPOISThe UN General Assembly on Thursday adopted a resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and urging nations to take "all measures necessary" to place pressure on Israel.Following the United States' veto of a si...

By AFP/Agnès PEDREROAn independent United Nations commission said Tuesday that Israeli attacks on schools, religious and cultural sites in Gaza amount to war crimes and constitute an attempt to "obliterate" Palestinian life."Israel has obliterated Ga...

By AFP/Stuart Williams and Celia LeburUS President Donald Trump should tell Israel's leader Benjamin Netanyahu "enough is enough", a former Israeli prime minister told AFP, denouncing the continuation of the war in Gaza as a "crime" and insisting a t...

By AFPGazan mother Amal Abu Shalouf ran her hand over her son's face and hair, a brief farewell before a man abruptly sealed the body bag carrying the three-year-old who was killed just hours earlier on Tuesday."Amir, my love, my dear!" cried his mot...

By AFP/Julia Pavesi, Guillaume Daudin and Alice HackmanFrench anti-terror prosecutors have opened probes into "complicity in genocide" and "incitement to genocide" after French-Israelis allegedly blocked aid intended for war-torn Gaza last year, they...

By AFP/Jack Guez with Benoit FinckA Gaza-bound aid boat reached Israel's Ashdod port on Monday after being intercepted by Israeli forces, preventing the dozen activists on board including Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg from reaching the blockaded...

By AFP/Benoit FinckIsrael on Sunday ordered the military to stop a humanitarian ship carrying activists, including Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg, breaking the blockade of the war-ravaged Gaza Strip."I have instructed the military to preve...

By AFP/Luana Sarmini-BuonaccorsiAbeer Ghazzawi had little time to visit her two sons' graves for the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha before Israeli soldiers cleared the cemetery near the refugee camp in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin.The Israeli...