By AFP with Stuart WilliamsAmnesty International accused Israel on Tuesday of committing a "live-streamed genocide" against Palestinians by forcibly displacing Gazans and creating a humanitarian catastrophe in the besieged territory, claims Israel di...

By AFPThe summer of 2024 was the warmest in 2,000 years in the Lapland region of northern Finland, Norway and Sweden, driven by climate change, the Finnish Meteorological Institute told AFP on Monday."Last summer's average temperature in Lapland, or...

By AFP/Gregg Newton with Issam AhmedAmazon on Monday launched its first batch of Project Kuiper internet satellites, marking the start of its push to rival Elon Musk's Starlink.The mission, called Kuiper Atlas 1, lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space...

By AFP/Nina LARSONChina is deploying a growing army of organisations masquerading as NGOs to monitor and intimidate rights activists at the UN, a new investigation by the ICIJ media consortium said on Monday.Dubbed "China Targets", the fresh investig...

By AFPSocial media behemoth Meta unveiled its first standalone AI assistant app on Tuesday, challenging ChatGPT by giving users a direct path to its generative artificial intelligence models."A billion people are using Meta AI across our apps now, so...

By AFPBritain is not properly prepared for the disastrous effects of climate change from severe floods to unprecedented heatwaves, a group of experts tasked with advising the government warned Wednesday.Extreme weather events have been rising across...

By AFP/Paula RAMONRosalba Hernandez used to keep her children's birth certificates close at hand in case an earthquake struck her part of California. But since Donald Trump returned to the White House, it's more because she's worried about immigratio...

By AFPHarvard University task forces charged with investigating claims of anti-Semitism, and anti-Arab and Muslim hate reported Tuesday that such prejudice had taken root on campus, urging the college to champion the fight against bigotry.Harvard, wi...

By AFPUkrainian journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna, who died in Russian captivity, was tortured and had organs removed before her body was returned, according to a joint media report dubbed Forbidden Stories published Tuesday.In February, Russia returned...

By AFP/Thomas MORFINChina, Brazil and other members of the BRICS grouping on Tuesday slammed the "resurgence of trade protectionism" at a meeting in Rio de Janeiro dominated by US President Donald Trump's tariffs blitz.Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Y...

By AFPMore than 72,000 deaths and disappearances have been documented along migration routes around the world in the past decade, most of them in crisis-affected countries, the United Nations said on Tuesday.Last year saw the highest migrant death to...

By AFPMounds of waste have again been found dumped on the banks of Athens's main river, the Kifissos, despite repeated clean-up operations, a Greek environmental group said on Tuesday.Vassilis Sfakianopoulos of clean-up group Save Your Hood said the...