By AFP/Didier LAURASDonald Trump on Tuesday announced his intent to "take over" and "own" Gaza but despite the US president's escalating rhetoric there are overwhelming obstacles to his proposal.The idea aligns with other grandiose schemes he's float...

By AFPIsraeli military offensives in two West Bank refugee camps have displaced nearly 5,500 Palestinian families since December, local and UN officials said Tuesday, amid escalating violence in the occupied territory.The Israeli military describes i...

By AFP/Tom BARFIELDCountries and economic blocs around the world are at different stages of regulating artificial intelligence, from a relative "Wild West" in the United States to highly complex rules in the European Union.Here are some key points ab...

By AFP/Majid Sourati and Sebastien RicciIran may seem an unlikely setting for women's ice hockey, but a fledgling league has seen its young players confront the country's deeply conservative values and financial obstacles to blaze a trail for the spo...

By AFPThe level of emissions from maritime transport is too high, an EU watchdog said Tuesday, imploring the industry to take steps to accelerate efforts to decarbonise the sector.According to a new report from the European Environment Agency (EEA),...

By AFP/Issam AHMEDMedical researchers forced to compile national data by hand, silence on a major tuberculosis outbreak, and the erasure of gender references: the Trump administration has pushed the US public health system into uncharted territory.He...

By AFP/W.G. DUNLOPThe United States is starting to fly detained migrants to America's notorious Guantanamo military base in Cuba as part of President Donald Trump's crackdown on illegal migration, officials said Tuesday.Guantanamo is primarily known...

By AFP/Issam AHMEDUS President Donald Trump's administration is moving to roll back protections for endangered species and their habitats in a bid to advance his "drill, baby, drill" energy agenda.A directive signed late Monday by Interior Secretary...

By AFP/Daniel ARONSSOHNMass surveillance, detecting emotions, social scoring: EU regulators laid out Tuesday what types of artificial intelligence tools are to be outlawed as too dangerous under the bloc's pioneering AI Act.Provisions banning uses of...

By AFPPresident Donald Trump on Tuesday backed an offer by El Salvador to take in prisoners -- including US citizens -- despite clear legal problems with such an outsourcing under American law."If we had the legal right to do it, I would do it in a h...

By AFPThe United States has frozen its financial contributions to a United Nations fund for a multinational security support mission in Haiti, a UN spokesperson said, a move that would stop $13.3 million in pending aid."We received an official notifi...

By AFP/Agnès PEDREROWhile US President Donald Trump unleashes trade wars and tariffs, the system for settling such disputes within the World Trade Organization has been paralysed for years -- by the United States.Having returned to the White House, T...