By AFPCommunities across Asia's Himalayan Hindu Kush region face heightened disaster risks this monsoon season with temperatures and rainfall expected to exceed normal levels, experts warned on Thursday.Temperatures are expected to be up to two degre...

By AFPThe number of people forcibly displaced from their homes worldwide has dropped slightly from a record peak but remains "untenably high", the United Nations said Thursday.A record 123.2 million people worldwide were forcibly displaced from their...

Police and FBI agents waged a huge manhunt Sunday for a gunman who killed a Democratic state lawmaker and her husband in Minnesota in what officials called a politically motivated attack.As the search stretched into its second day, police appeared to...

By AFP/Akshata KAPOORBritish strawberry farmers say this year's record-breaking spring sunshine and warm days have yielded the cream of the crop, with a bigger and sweeter harvest than usual.Long periods of sun and cool nights provided "perfect" cond...

By AFPNicaragua announced Thursday it was withdrawing from the United Nations refugee agency, after alleging that the organization had made "biased" statements about Nicaraguans seeking refuge in other countries."We hereby announce our sovereign deci...

By AFP/Robin MILLARDNuclear-armed states spent more than $100 billion on their atomic arsenals last year, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons said Friday, lamenting the lack of democratic oversight of such spending.ICAN said Britain...

By AFP/Juliette MANSOURSince seeing thousands of comments justifying the recent murder of a teenage TikTok star in Pakistan, Sunaina Bukhari is considering abandoning her 88,000 followers."In my family, it wasn't an accepted profession at all, but I'...

By AFPGoogle on Friday began letting people turn online searches into conversations, with generative artificial intelligence providing spoken summaries of query results.With Audio Overviews, Gemini AI models quickly sum up query results in conversati...

By AFP/Facundo Fernández BarrioApartment blocks and shopping centers sprout like mushrooms around a wild cat sanctuary that shelters pumas recovering from injuries suffered at the hands of mankind in Brazil's Sao Paolo state.The Mata Ciliar refuge st...

By AFP/Andrea BambinoA giant orange balloon depicting Donald Trump in a diaper towered over one "No Kings" protest Saturday, as hundreds of thousands thronged streets across the United States to decry the president's policies.Protest organizers expec...

By AFPUS President Donald Trump pocketed more than $57 million from token sales by the crypto venture he and his sons helped launch last year, according to federal financial disclosure forms released by the White House.The more than 230-page document...

By AFPPro-Palestinian activists seeking to march to Gaza with the stated aim of breaking Israel's blockade on the territory were stopped Friday in both Libya and Egypt, organisers said."Forty participants of the Global March to Gaza have had their pa...