By AFP/Sonia AVALOS"Dollars, selling dollars!" a money changer shouts to people streaming past in Buenos Aires' financial district.But there are no takers as Argentina's decades-long dollar craze finally shows signs of cooling.Over years of high infl...

By AFP/Hiba AslanTired and sad, Palestinian activist Fakhri Abu Diab stood amid the rubble of his home in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem, just a narrow valley away from the famed domes of the Old City.In early November, bulldozers from the Israeli-co...

By AFPSouth African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Friday signed a disputed education law on languages in schools, after reaching an agreement with his initially opposed coalition partner.The dispute over the Basic Education Laws Amendment (BELA) earli...

By AFPPalestinian officials reported on Friday that Israeli settlers had set fire to a mosque in the occupied West Bank, an act Israeli police said was under investigation.According to Abdallah Kamil, the governor of Salfit, the attack targeted the B...

By AFP/David Courbet, Philippe Siuberski and Isabelle WesselinghFrenchwoman Gisele Pelicot, who survived a decade of sexual abuse by her husband and dozens of strangers, said she hoped her ordeal would help make the world a better place for "women an...

By AFPSouth Sudan has detained a leading journalist, an international media organisation said Friday as it urged his immediate release.News of the apparent arrest followed a warning by the United Nations which denounced arbitrary detentions, includin...

By AFPUS immigration authorities removed over 270,000 people last financial year, figures showed Thursday, weeks before Donald Trump takes office threatening to deport millions of migrants.The tally of removals is the final annual report under Presid...

By AFPOpenAI on Monday said it is making ChatGPT-powered internet search available to all users, escalating its threat to Google's dominance.The San Francisco-based tech firm had beefed up its ChatGPT generative AI chatbot with search engine capabili...

By AFP/Mary YANGGruff men shout over an angry motor as they float huge blocks of ice towards a rusty conveyor belt on the bank of a frozen river in northeastern China.Every winter, dozens of workers brave subzero temperatures to hack ice from the mig...

By AFP/Jay Deshmukh and Daniel CapurroIsrael on Thursday faced accusations of "acts of genocide" and exhibiting "signs of ethnic cleansing" in its military offensive in Gaza, charges Israeli authorities dismissed as "lies".They are the latest in a se...

By UN NewsThe head of the UN aid coordination office in Gaza, Georgios Petropoulos, issued a harrowing update on the dire situation in the enclave on Thursday, describing it as “the most dangerous place on earth right now.”Speaking to correspondents...

By UN News/Vibhu MishraThe UN Secretary-General on Thursday urged the Security Council to act decisively to establish international guardrails for artificial intelligence (AI), warning that delays could heighten risks to global peace and security.Add...