By AFPSudan has become the "biggest humanitarian crisis ever recorded" after 20 months of devastating war between rival generals, the International Rescue Committee said in a report released Wednesday."The country accounts for 10 percent of all peopl...

By AFPThe cooling weather phenomenon La Nina could appear in coming months, but if it does it will likely be too "weak and short-lived" to significantly impact soaring global temperatures, the UN said Wednesday.There is currently a 55-percent likelih...

By AFP/Marchio GorbianoIndonesian fruit seller Budi was seeking better prospects when he signed up for an IT job in Cambodia. But he found himself detained in a heavily guarded compound where he was forced to carry out online scams."When I arrived th...

By AFP/Dylan Gamba"I don't know when I'll be able to go back to school," 14-year-old Desta said, one of millions of children in northern Ethiopia's Amhara region deprived of school.Desta has not been in a classroom for nearly four months and now divi...

By AFPGoogle on Wednesday announced the launch of Gemini 2.0, its most advanced artificial intelligence model to date, as the world's tech giants race to take the lead in the fast developing technology.CEO Sundar Pichai said the new model would mark...

By AFP/Ognjen ZoricSerbian journalist Radmilo Markovic has gone over every full stop and comma of an article about the powerful mayor of Belgrade that has landed him in court.Aleksandar Sapic is demanding 100,000 euros ($105,000) in damages from the...

By UN NewsThe number of victims of human trafficking detected globally is rising again after falling off during the COVID-19 pandemic, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said in its latest report on the issue, covering 156 countries.The 2024 Gl...

By AFP/Frédérique PRISThe 2030 FIFA World Cup will send dozens of football teams and hordes of fans crisscrossing the globe for matches on three continents, sparking alarm over the environmental cost.An announcement on the 2030 and 2034 World Cups wi...

By AFP/Nina LarsonUN investigators who for years have been gathering evidence of horrific crimes committed in Syria hope Bashar al-Assad's downfall will finally mean they can access "the crime scene" and "massive evidence"."There is a sea change," sa...

By AFP/Bekai NJIEAs Paul Techy queued with dozens of others in his coastal Gambian fishing village, he hoped to move one step closer towards finally belonging in the only country he had ever called home.Gambian citizenship has long been an elusive go...

By AFP/Gregory WaltonThe man charged with brazenly gunning down a top health insurance CEO in New York carried a handwritten manifesto of grievances against the industry, police said Tuesday, giving a possible motive for the first time.Luigi Mangione...

By AFP/Thomas Cabral"We should be the new El Dorado of medical cannabis production," said agronomist Jose Martins as dozens of workers harvested marijuana in bright sunshine at a farm in southeastern Portugal.The country is fast becoming a European h...