By AFP/Lucie LEQUIERStablecoins -- a form of cryptocurrency backed by traditional assets -- are gaining traction, with the US Senate passing Tuesday a bill to regulate such digital tokens.But as stablecoins move closer to the financial mainstream, ex...

By AFP/Ahmad ParhiziFacing the camera with a defiant gaze, her index finger raised in the air, Iranian TV presenter Sahar Emami became an icon in her country after an Israeli attack on the state broadcaster."What you can see is the flagrant aggressio...

By AFP/Lucie PEYTERMANNEsther and Rio, two orphaned baby chimpanzees, clung tenderly to their caregiver's chest at a sanctuary inside one of Sierra Leone's flagship national parks, where unprecedented deforestation and illegal urban encroachment pose...

By AFP/Margioni BERMÚDEZIn the Venezuelan mining community of El Dorado, the majority of residents carry around gold instead of cards or cash to pay for groceries.They live in a town named after the mythical City of Gold and untold riches -- but most...

By AFP/Peter HUTCHISONUK MPs on Tuesday voted to end contentious prosecutions of women in England and Wales for terminating a pregnancy, paving the way for a huge overhaul of how the country's abortion laws are enforced.Currently, a woman can face cr...

By AFP/Antoine DE RAIGNIACSoweto's children call it the "yellow mountain": for decades, a gold mine dump that towers over the Snake Park neighbourhood of South Africa's largest township has been polluting the area and poisoning communities.The yellow...

By AFP/Johannes LEDELMost of the world's nuclear-armed states continued to modernise their arsenals last year, setting the stage for a new nuclear arms race, researchers warned Monday.The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) said...

By AFPGaza's civil defence agency said Israeli forces on Tuesday killed more than 50 Palestinians near an aid centre in the territory's south, the latest such incident amid severe shortages after more than 20 months of war.The war since October 2023...

By AFPThe European aviation industry is awash with misleading climate-related claims, consumer groups said Tuesday, over a year after the EU launched a probe into airlines' greenwashing.An analysis of 17 air carriers found many misled passengers by s...

By AFPTogo suspended French broadcasters RFI and France 24 for three months, the country's media regulator said Monday, accusing both of transmitting "inexact and tendentious" content.The temporary ban further reduces the two French public broadcaste...

By AFP/Annalena DÖRNERA German court on Monday handed a life sentence to a Syrian doctor who tortured opponents of former ruler Bashar al-Assad during the country's brutal civil war.The higher regional court in Frankfurt found Alaa Mousa, 40, guilty...

By AFP/Anne-Sophie LABADIE and Rusmir SMAJILHODZICIt took years for Zehra Murguz to be able to testify about what happened to her and other Muslim women in the "rape camps" run by Serb forces during the war in Bosnia.One of the awful memories that dr...