By AFPIsrael's raid on a major Gaza hospital and the arrest of its director over alleged links to Hamas have drawn global attention to the war-ravaged territory's crumbling healthcare system.For weeks, as fighting escalated around the Kamal Adwan Hos...

By AFPUnited Nations rights experts on Monday said Israel must face the consequences of "inflicting maximum suffering" on Palestinian civilians in Gaza, alleging Israel was defying international law and being sheltered by its allies."International hu...

By AFPThe US Defense Department said Monday it had repatriated to Tunisia one of the remaining detainees from the Guantanamo Bay military prison.Ridah Bin Saleh al-Yazidi was one of the first prisoners sent to Guantanamo Bay, which was hastily opened...

By AFPConversational artificial intelligence (AI) tools may soon "covertly influence" users' decision making in a new commercial frontier called the "intention economy", University of Cambridge researchers warned in a paper published Monday.The resea...

By AFPThe World Health Organization on Monday implored China to share data and access to help understand how Covid-19 began, five years on from the start of the pandemic that upended the planet.Covid-19 killed millions of people, shredded economies a...

By AFP/James Edgar with Beiyi SeowBeijing on Tuesday hit back at accusations that a China state-sponsored actor was behind a cyber breach at the US Treasury Department, calling the claims "groundless".The Treasury said the attack resulted in access t...

By AFPThe world ushered in 2025 on Tuesday, with huge crowds waving goodbye to the old year that brought Olympic glory, a dramatic Donald Trump return and turmoil in the Middle East and Ukraine.It is all but certain that 2024 will go down as the hott...

By AFPRussia and Ukraine swapped more than 300 prisoners of war on Monday in an exchange brokered by the United Arab Emirates ahead of New Year's Eve, officials from both countries said.The two sides have exchanged hundreds of captive soldiers since...

By AFP/Florian CAZERESDespite political upheavals, stock markets and bitcoin smashed records in 2024, fueled by investor enthusiasm for Artificial Intelligence (AI), falling interest rates, and hopes of tax cuts.Here are four of the most remarkable a...

By AFPVenezuela's highest court on Monday fined TikTok $10 million in connection with viral challenges that authorities say left three adolescents dead from intoxication by chemical substances.Supreme Tribunal of Justice Judge Tania D'Amelio said tha...

By AFP/Jonathan SawayaAbout half of school-age children in Syria are missing out on education after nearly 14 years of civil war, Save the Children told AFP on Monday, calling for "immediate action".The overwhelming majority of Syrian children are al...

By AFPSyria's new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa told Al Arabiya TV on Sunday that elections could take four years, noted the importance of ties with Iran and Russia, and called for the United States to lift sanctions.In a wide-ranging interview three weeks...