12 February 2024
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By AFPHuman rights advocates including Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai criticised Pakistan on Wednesday for stopping a leading ethnic minority activist from travelling to accept a US award.Mahrang Baloch, one of Pakistan's most prominent...
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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 possibility of a breakup, after the tech juggernaut was found to be running an illegal monopoly.Determi...
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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 countries can quit the polluting fossil fuel.An alliance led by The Rockefeller Foundation, a philanthro...
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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 have crossed into the country fleeing airstrikes in Lebanon.“Families I spoke with had run for thei...
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By AFP/Johannes LedelAmericans David Baker and John Jumper, together with Briton Demis Hassabis, shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday for work revealing the secrets of proteins through computing and artificial intelligence.The three were...
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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 that there was “no end to hell” in northern Gaza, where lifesaving relief has shut down.The warning f...
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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 cycle ever more unpredictable, the United Nations warned Monday.Last year the world's rivers were their...
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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 new COP in Colombia in late October to assess their progress.Representatives from some 200 countries...
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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 to cease its attack immediately and comply with its international obligations to protect civilians.I...
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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 drained them, and now Israeli air strikes are pushing many to breaking point.Cartoonist Bernard Hage, w...
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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 animatedly as they waited to make a wish inside this Greek Orthodox sanctuary.It was a scene which plays...
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By UN NewsThe situation in Africa’s Great Lakes Region, in particular the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), has remained “alarming” amid ongoing violence in the restive country’s east, said the UN Special Envoy to the Region in a briefing to th...
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