By AFPArgentina's President Javier Milei vowed on Friday to install nuclear reactors to power artificial intelligence servers, which consume vast amounts of electricity."Nuclear energy is the only source that is sufficiently efficient, abundant and r...

By AFP/Danny KEMPUS President Joe Biden on Monday commuted the death sentences of 37 of the 40 inmates on federal death row, ahead of the return to power of Donald Trump, who has indicated that he would restart federal executions.Three men were exclu...

By AFPNigerian police on Sunday raised the total death toll from two stampedes at food distribution centres to 32, as the country grappled with a spate of deadly crowd crushes at charity events.Twenty-two people were killed on Saturday as people queu...

By AFP/Sheikh Sabiha ALAMFor generations, the small Hindu temple outside the capital in Muslim-majority Bangladesh was a quiet place to pray -- before arsonists ripped open its roof this month in the latest post-revolution unrest.It is only one of a...

By AFP/Louis BAUDOIN-LAARMANOn Bethlehem's Manger Square, Christmas decorations and pilgrims are notably absent for a second wartime festive season in the Israeli-occupied West Bank city.The Church of the Nativity that dominates the square is as empt...

By AFP/Zain Zaman JANJUAIn Pakistan's largest city, cars inch forward in bumper-to-bumper traffic. But some seamlessly carve through the jam: SUVs flanked by Toyota Hilux pickup trucks.The Hilux has become a symbol of power, affluence and intimidatio...

By AFP/Agnes ANYAIn the mid-19th century, Dutch colonial officials climbing an Indonesian volcano spotted an ancient statue meant to serve as protection against misfortune, looted it, and took it to the Netherlands.Today, the volcanic rock likeness o...

By AFP/Rouba el HusseiniThe visiting head of a UN investigative body for Syria said Sunday it was possible to find "more than enough" evidence to convict people of crimes against international law, but there was an immediate need to secure and preser...

By AFP/Josh EDELSON with Brian KNOWLTONPresident-elect Donald Trump on Sunday pledged to "stop the transgender lunacy" on day one of his presidency, as Republicans -- set to control both chambers of Congress and the White House -- continue their push...

By AFP/Aymen JAMLIOn a hillside in Tunisia's northwestern highlands, women scour a sun-scorched field for the wild herbs they rely on for their livelihoods, but droughts and rising temperatures are making it ever harder to find the precious plants.Ye...

By AFP/Dave CLARKSchool lessons ended in Syria's biggest Palestinian refugee camp on October 18, 2012, judging by the date still chalked up on the board more than a decade later."I am playing football"; "She is eating an apple"; "The boys are flying...

By AFP/Camille Laffont and Seros MuyisaLife seems almost normal in the streets of Lubero but the calm is deceptive -- the town nestled in the forested, misty hills of eastern DR Congo is under threat from an advancing rebel militia."The enemy is righ...