By AFP/Kilian FICHOU with Anne-Marie PROVOST and Glenn CHAPMANFive years on from a first wave of harassment scandals that rocked the world of gaming, multiple women working in the industry tell AFP they have seen or experienced sexism in the workplac...

By AFP/Sara HUSSEINRules for the emerging deep-sea mining sector should take a "precautionary approach" that protects the environment, the head of the body drafting regulations for the practice told AFP Friday.At stake is a potential new frontier for...

By AFP/Oscar BATRESThe United States flew more than 200 alleged members of a Venezuelan gang to be imprisoned in El Salvador, President Nayib Bukele said Sunday, after US counterpart Donald Trump controversially invoked wartime legislation to expel t...

By AFP/Hugo RUAUDTrade tensions and geopolitical uncertainties are weighing on economic perspectives, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development said on Monday as it lowered its projections for global growth in 2025."We are navigating...

By AFP/Nina LARSONUNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini acknowledges that it has been "stressful" leading the embattled UN agency for Palestinian refugees, but says he is confident he is "on the right side of history".The 61-year-old head of the United Nati...

By AFPSri Lanka carried out a nationwide census Saturday of nuisance wildlife, including monkeys and peacocks, in a bid to prepare countermeasures to protect crops, officials said.Some 40,000 local officials were deployed to count wild boar, lorises,...

By AFP/Sheikh Sabiha ALAMArrested for sexually harassing a Bangladeshi university student, Asif Sardar Arnab was soon released -- greeted by a cheering crowd who presented him with flower garlands and a Quran.His alleged victim was a student who enth...

By AFP/Natsuko FUKUEThe Unification Church has come under intense scrutiny in Japan since a former prime minister was assassinated, but it could soon fall even further from grace.Authorities said in October 2023 they were seeking to dissolve the infl...

By AFP/Rusmir SMAJILHODZICA relentless drive for sovereignty by the nationalist leader of Bosnia's Serbs poses the toughest test for the volatile country's stability since its bloody ethnic war 30 years ago, observers say.Milorad Dodik, leader of Rep...

By AFP/Shaun TANDONPresident Donald Trump's administration on Saturday put journalists at Voice of America and other US-funded broadcasters on leave, abruptly freezing decades-old outlets long seen as critical to countering Russian and Chinese inform...

By AFP/Lucie LEQUIERThe creation of a "Strategic Bitcoin Reserve" in the United States is further proof of President Donald Trump's support for the cryptocurrency sector.Trump earlier this month signed an executive order establishing the reserve, whi...

By AFP/Leslie FAUVELWith a few taps on his phone, Dandam Nangor knows exactly what temperature his greenhouse is at, when to water his crops and even the pH of the soil.Backed by artificial intelligence, it's all designed to make growing his peppers...