By AFPIsrael must evacuate all settlers from the West Bank and make reparations for decades of illegal settlement, the UN rights chief said Tuesday, describing the policy as "a war crime"."The transfer by Israel of parts of its own civilian populatio...

By AFPElon Musk's SpaceX subsidiary Starlink is the most widely-known firm offering satellite communications, but the sector is the scene of hot competition between several groups.Depending on their technology, different players can offer widely vary...

By AFP/Pol-Malo LE BRISA pioneering rigid shipping mast has set off on its first journey, harnessing the wind to propel a cargo ship from England to Canada and using less fuel to help reduce emissions.After a night of work and a short nap, George Tho...

By AFP/Ebrahim HARRISAs dusk fell, hundreds of Muslims at a mosque in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur feast on bowls of fragrant rice porridge known locally as "bubur lambuk", part of a Ramadan tradition dating back decades.Slow-cooked with var...

By AFP/Amélie BOTTOLLIER-DEPOISSeveral countries united with campaign groups Monday to call for caution in regulating the divisive practice of deep-sea mining at a meeting on the issue in Jamaica.Members of the International Seabed Authority (ISA) ar...

By AFPIranians on Tuesday lit bonfires in the streets and jumped over them, carrying on an ancient tradition ahead of the Persian New Year to purify themselves and ward off evil spirits.The fire festival, called Chaharshanbe Suri, is celebrated every...

By AFPLegislators in Mexico City, home to the world's largest bullring, voted Tuesday to ban bullfights where the animals are killed or wounded, as opponents and supporters staged rival protests.The initiative, which was promoted by the capital city'...

By AFPMore than 60,000 people have been displaced in one month in Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince which is "under siege" from a resurgence in gang violence ravaging the country, United Nations migration agency IOM said Tuesday."This alarming surge in...

By AFPA South African court order issued Tuesday barred for at least 10 years commercial fishing at key breeding colonies for African penguins that are facing extinction in part because of threats to their food supply.Bird conservation groups that pu...

By AFP/Richard CARTERArtificial intelligence is turbocharging organised crime, from creating child sexual abuse images to money laundering via cryptocurrency, Europol warned Tuesday, with advances like quantum computing only poised to make things wor...

By AFP/Robin MILLARDUN chief Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said the two rival Cypriot leaders had made the first meaningful progress in years towards healing the Mediterranean island's divisions, following talks at the United Nations.Guterres said ther...

By AFP/Hiroshi HIYAMAThree decades since Shizue Takahashi's husband and a dozen others were killed with a nerve agent on Tokyo's subway, she fears Japan could see a repeat of the doomsday cult attack.Takahashi, whose husband worked for the metro syst...