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...

By AFP/Christophe VOGTThe United Nations said on Monday that it was drastically scaling back its global humanitarian aid plans due to the "deepest funding cuts ever" -- leaving tens of millions of people facing dire straits.The UN's Office for the Co...

By AFP/Tom BARFIELDAway from the heady rush to build ultra-capable, sci-fi style artificial intelligence in Silicon Valley, ambitious Nairobi-based startup Amini AI is betting on the technology addressing emerging countries' prosaic problems in the h...

By AFP/Mathieu RABECHAULTGeopolitical tensions roiled the opening of the Paris Air Show on Monday as French authorities sealed off Israeli weapons industry booths amid the conflicts in Iran and Gaza, a move that Israel condemned as "outrageous".The d...

By AFPThousands of Malians have replastered the iconic earthen mosque in the historic city of Djenne during an annual ceremony that helps preserve the World Heritage site.To the sound of drums and festive music, townsmen on Thursday coated the toweri...

By AFPThe World Bank said in a report Monday that foreign direct investment (FDI) into developing economies has hit the lowest level since 2005, citing growing trade and investment barriers.Developing countries received just $435 billion of such inve...