The Earth's ozone layer is on course to be fully restored within decades as harmful chemicals are phased out worldwide.According to a new UN-backed assessment, approximately 99 percent of the prohibited ozone-depleting compounds have been phased out...

By AFPHundreds of Israeli high-tech workers protested against the government's judicial reform planTuesday, claiming the controversial measures will hurt the flourishing sector by undermining the rule of law.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's govern...

By AFPElon Musk on Monday told jurors that his 2018 tweet about taking Tesla private at $420 a share was no joke and that Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund was serious about helping him do it.The Tesla chief returned to the witness stand to answer...

By AFPFollowing the deaths of more than 300 children from contaminated cough syrup, the WHO appealed Monday for "immediate and coordinated action" to root out substandard and falsified medicines around the world.At least seven countries have reported...

By AFPThe Lebanese judge probing the devastating Beirut port blast has charged Prosecutor General Ghassan Oueidat and three judges, a first in the country's history, a judicial official told AFP on Tuesday.Judge Tarek Bitar decided Monday to resume h...

By AFPEvidence is emerging that climate-related disasters are becoming a cause of human trafficking as criminal gangs exploit a growing number of uprooted people, the UN said Tuesday.The continuing war in Ukraine is also another risk factor for incre...

By AFPPolice in Brazil have strong evidence that an alleged drug trafficker ordered the murders of a British journalist and an Indigenous activist in the Amazon last June, a police chief said on Monday.Police believe Ruben da Silva Villar, who uses t...

By AFPFrance repatriated Tuesday 15 women and 32 children held in jihadist prison camps in Syria, the foreign ministry said, in the third major return of French citizens from the Middle Eastern country.Rights groups have been pressing for years for F...

By AFPThe national power grid was restored in Pakistan, the energy minister said on Tuesday, a day after a nationwide breakdown left most of the country's 220 million people without electricity and caused tens of millions of dollars in industry losse...

By AFPTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned Sweden on Monday that it should not expect his backing to join NATO following the burning of the Koran outside Ankara's embassy in Stockholm.Erdogan's furious comments further distanced the prospect...