Porto Germeno (Greece) (AFP) – Two fire helicopters collided in Greece on Sunday as forces battled multiple wildfires that have devastated swathes of land, with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis warning of “extremely difficult” days ahead.
Seoul (AFP) – South Korea registered its highest temperature since records began more than a century ago on Sunday, as authorities warned people to “immediately” stop all outdoor activities in affected areas.
Colombo (AFP) – Sri Lanka deployed hundreds of troops and elite commandos on Sunday to contain riots at an overcrowded prison in which one inmate was killed and six others wounded, police said.
China (AFP) – The roar of engines fills the night air in China’s Chongqing city as tourists awkwardly clamber onto gleaming motorbikes and cling to muscular drivers to star in personalised videos.
Washington (United States) (AFP) – President Donald Trump said Saturday that the United States and Israel had agreed to hold off on new strikes on Iran – provided a deal to end the months-long conflict is “rapidly” reached.
Havana (AFP) – Havana and other parts of western Cuba were plunged into darkness Saturday due to the country’s latest power grid failure, the state-run electric company announced.
Nazca (Peru) (AFP) – A small plane carrying foreign tourists to view Peru’s famed Nazca Lines archaeological site crashed Saturday, killing all 13 people on board, police said.
Gaza City (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) – Gaza authorities said that seven people were killed in Israeli strikes Saturday that also damaged a hospital’s medical supplies, a day after Hamas said it agreed to the latest stage of a deal to end the war.
Dubai (AFP) – US embassies in capitals across the Middle East on Saturday warned their citizens to beware of “unforeseen escalation” in the regional conflict and urged them to be ready to leave.
Cúcuta (Colombia) (AFP) – At least 11 people were injured Saturday when a truck packed with explosives detonated next to a Colombian police station near the border with Venezuela, six days before President-elect Abelardo de la Espriella’s inauguration.
Tokyo (AFP) – Japanese officials said Saturday they had ended rescue operations at a shopping mall devastated by an explosion following a powerful earthquake that killed at least 36 people.
Zurbatiyah (Iraq) (AFP) – Under a blazing sun, clad in black and clutching portraits of their slain leader Ali Khamenei, Iranian pilgrims streamed across the border into Iraq to observe the Arbaeen, the most revered event in Shia Islam.
Ceuta (Spain) (AFP) – Almost all of the tens of thousands of migrants who entered Spain’s enclave of Ceuta in North Africa had left by Saturday, officials said, as some EU countries bolstered their border controls over the sudden influx.
Washington (United States) (AFP) – The US Justice Department on Friday dropped its case against a former Olympian accused of damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, saying the hurried renovations ordered by President Donald Trump had been botched.
Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) – Russian attacks on Ukraine’s capital killed at least nine people and wounded more than two dozen others, local officials said on Saturday, with strikes damaging homes and causing fires across the city.
New Delhi (AFP) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he wanted to “forgive” protesters who abused him during recent youth-led demonstrations that dealt a rare political setback to his government.
An Azerbaijani appeal court has upheld the 10-year sentence of a French national, Martin Ryan, for “espionage”, in a case that arose against a backdrop of tensions between Paris and Baku.
Some 60,000 migrants entered Spain’s north African enclave of Ceuta from Morocco in the space of 24 hours, between Thursday and Friday, leaving at least 34 dead and prompting France to tighten controls along its border with Spain.
Budapest (AFP) – Hungary’s sole nuclear power plant will be shut down next week because of low water levels in the river Danube, Prime Minister Peter Magyar said Friday as central Europe slogs through the latest in a series of heatwaves.
South Africa is suffering a drop in its workforce, following the departure of thousands of foreign workers in the wake of a wave of xenophobic attacks, anti-migrant protests and intensified immigration enforcement.
Nablus (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) – One Palestinian was shot and wounded during an Israeli settler march through several West Bank Palestinian towns Friday that sparked clashes with locals, first responders, the army and an AFP journalist said.
United Nations (United States) (AFP) – A strengthening El Nino that could shatter all-time records is “adding fuel to a planet already on fire” and pushing the world into “uncharted territory,” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Friday.
London (AFP) – A top British court on Friday threw out a challenge against planning permission for a Chinese “mega” embassy in central London, but residents seeking to block the contentious project vowed to fight on.
Mumbai (India) (AFP) – At a bustling factory in western India, technicians work around the clock to turn glass into hair-thin fibre-optic strands destined for data centres powering the global artificial intelligence boom.
Washington (United States) (AFP) – A man whose teenage son shot dead four people at a US high school was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Thursday in a rare case of a parent convicted over a shooting carried out by their child.
Gaza City (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) – Hamas said Friday it agreed to a deal to end the war with Israel that included provisions addressing its weapons and the gradual withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Gaza Strip.
The Democratic Republic of Congo’s Constitutional Court has approved a referendum law that critics say could pave the way for President Felix Tshisekedi to seek a third term in office, prompting a coalition of opposition parties to reject the ruling and vow to fight the change.
Washington (United States) (AFP) – Tehran’s forces have carried out frequent missile and drone attacks in the Middle East since the breakdown of the US-Iran ceasefire, raising renewed concerns about Washington’s supply of the weapons needed to intercept them.
Buenos Aires (Argentina) (AFP) – Argentine President Javier Milei on Thursday imposed a bar on foreigners who express “hate” toward the Latin American country, which he claims is the target of a sinister campaign.
Mexico City (AFP) – Mexico is deploying specialized navy ships to fight a massive influx of sargassum on the country’s Caribbean beaches, authorities said Thursday, as the smelly seaweed threatens the crucial tourism sector.
London (AFP) – Britain’s Supreme Court said on Thursday it has agreed to hear the high-profile case brought by the co-founder of activist group Palestine Action appealing against a contentious government ban which has led to thousands of arrests.
Ceuta (Spain) (AFP) – Madrid said on Thursday it would despatch soldiers to Ceuta to ensure security after hundreds of migrants entered Spain’s north African exclave from neighbouring Morocco and hundreds more headed there.
Tehran (AFP) – Mediator Pakistan insisted on Thursday that negotiations between Iran and the United States were ongoing, even as Washington carried out a “heavy wave of strikes” on its foe in retaliation for fresh attacks targeting Jordan.
Moscow (AFP) – Russia on Thursday added Telegram founder Pavel Durov to a blacklist of “terrorists and extremists”, a day after saying it was seeking his arrest over accusations he let his platform be used by Ukrainian intelligence.
Warsaw (AFP) – Poland said Thursday that a missile that blasted a 10-metre (33 feet) crater inside its territory was likely fired by Russia in its latest mass attack on Ukraine.
Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) – Russian strikes killed at least eight people and wounded more than a dozen others across Ukraine, authorities said on Thursday, after President Volodymyr Zelensky warned of Moscow launching another massive attack
Seoul (AFP) – Under banners emblazoned “Solidarity” and “We stand together with victims”, a group of South Korean women digital detectives dredges the internet for a scourge of illegal AI-enabled pornography.
Sydney (AFP) – Australia’s cyber safety watchdog took court action Thursday against Telegram, alleging the global messaging platform had failed to remove terrorism material.
Wellington (AFP) – New Zealand’s top diplomat Winston Peters drew the ire of Beijing’s ambassador in Wellington on Thursday after telling a lawmaker of Chinese descent to “go back to your own country”.
Tokyo (AFP) – The number of Japanese people living in the country has fallen below 120 million for the first time in 42 years, government data showed Wednesday, as the nation confronts a low birth rate and an ageing society.
Ijebu Ode (Nigeria) (AFP) – The cooking cauldrons and vats of chemicals were left behind in an abandoned shed, hidden in a Nigerian forest – remnants of an alleged multimillion-dollar transnational meth operation.
Washington (United States) (AFP) – A US citizen is facing charges for allegedly supplying US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents with a passcode that erased the contents of his phone during an airport interrogation.
Karachi (AFP) – Hundreds of transgender Pakistanis and supporters protested against surging inflation in the southern city of Karachi on Wednesday, as a spike in prices amid the Middle East war disproportionately hits the vulnerable community.
Havana (AFP) – Cuba moved to open crisis-ravaged parts of the state-run economy to private firms Wednesday, as the communist government struggles to ease acute shortages resulting from a US energy blockade.
Brasília (AFP) – Brazil’s Supreme Court has demanded an explanation from former president Jair Bolsonaro, after an AI-generated version of him appeared in a video urging supporters to back his son Flavio Bolsonaro in October elections.
Paris (France) (AFP) – France has ordered Russian commentator Xenia Fedorova to leave the country, the interior ministry said Wednesday, after accusations she was churning out Kremlin propaganda on French television and radio.
Uganda’s health minister on Tuesday declared the country Ebola-free, following the latest outbreak of the viral haemorrhagic disease which infected 20 people and killed two in the country.
Washington (United States) (AFP) – The former top US infectious disease official on Wednesday faced adversarial questioning from Republican senators about the origins of Covid-19, and on the advice of lawyers invoked his constitutional right not to answer, casting the hearing as a character assassination.
Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) – Ukraine said Wednesday that it had appealed against the International Olympic Committee’s decision to ease restrictions on Russian athletes, arguing the move was premature and violated the Olympic Charter.
Hong Kong (AFP) – A Hong Kong bookshop raided by national security police this month announced on Wednesday that it would close after 50 years in business, while another shut down ahead of schedule.
Paris (France) (AFP) – A specially modified Airbus A350 plane touched down in France Tuesday after a record 24-hour test flight from Australia, ahead of it joining Qantas’s fleet next year.
New York (AFP) – US President Donald Trump’s administration on Tuesday added humanoid and quadruped robots to a list of products and companies that are banned from being imported into the United States on national security grounds.
Tokyo (AFP) – Dozens of people were feared trapped in a shopping mall in Japan on Tuesday after a major earthquake toppled buildings, sparked fires and reportedly killed one person and injured more than 100.
Tokyo (AFP) – A total of 265 couples have married after meeting on an AI-powered dating app launched by the Tokyo government in 2024 to lift Japan’s low birth rate, according to official data.
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) (AFP) – The science has never been better, but political will has reached a new low: AIDS experts warned Monday that the fight against HIV was in real danger as funding fell by a fifth last year.
New Delhi (AFP) – India’s youth-led “cockroach” movement, whose nationwide protests forced the resignation of the education minister, urged authorities on Monday to release all detained demonstrators.
Tehran (AFP) – US President Donald Trump on Monday voiced optimism at the prospects for a negotiated peace deal with Iran, as the two sides held their fire for a third consecutive day.
N’Djamena (AFP) – Chad became on Monday the latest country to announce plans to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC), complaining the tribunal’s effectiveness was “limited and uneven” and its activities were focused on Africa.
El-Obeid (Sudan) (AFP) – Sudan paramilitary leader Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, whose Rapid Support Forces have been accused of genocide, told his fighters Monday to consider themselves “unleashed” in their war against the army.
Kingston upon Hull (United Kingdom) (AFP) – A British funeral director faced prison Monday over a scandal that saw bodies left “stored on racks” and uncremated while relatives were handed other people’s ashes, sparking calls for better regulation of the industry.
Berlin (AFP) – The German government on Monday pledged tougher security laws following a deadly vehicle and machete attack blamed on a known jihadist militant near Berlin’s Pride parade.
Midrand (South Africa) (AFP) – South African President Cyril Ramaphosa called on Monday for African countries to work together to manage migration, as his government faces mounting pressure over attacks on foreign nationals.
Iran and the United States have paused their attacks, offering Gulf shipping and global oil markets a respite after weeks of escalating strikes around the Strait of Hormuz.
The death toll from an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has climbed to 1,405, with confirmed cases now at 3,200, government data showed Sunday, as researchers race to develop a vaccine.
Manila (AFP) – Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, who declared a national energy emergency this year, said Monday that nuclear power might hold answers for a country paying the highest electricity prices in the region.
Sydney (AFP) – A popular far-right Australian politician failed on Monday to overturn a racial vilification finding that was handed down after she told a Muslim senator to go back to Pakistan.
Long Beach (United States) (AFP) – On a boat off the coast of California, Sara Lesser gazes wistfully at dozens of dolphins playing in the vessel’s wake. This summer, extreme heat is making such a scene increasingly rare.
A few keywords in a search engine will bring up any number of strange laws involving animals in the United States. Many are urban myths: there is no law specifically prohibiting driving a car in Massachusetts with a gorilla in the back seat, although no one would dispute that would be a questionable idea. Others, however, are very real.
Sao Paulo (AFP) – Brazil recalled its ambassador to Argentina for consultations Sunday following “insults” leveled by President Javier Milei against his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and others at a Sao Paulo political event, the foreign ministry said.
Comayagua (Honduras) (AFP) – Honduran ex-president Juan Orlando Hernandez – who was serving a 45-year prison sentence in the United States for drug trafficking until President Donald Trump pardoned him last year – returned to his home country on Sunday.
Durban (South Africa) (AFP) – Zimbabwean farmworker Aaron Majatamhe was heading home at sunset after a shift in one of South Africa’s top fruit-producing regions, where bushes laden with bright unpicked citrus stood in rows.
Tehran (AFP) – Iran passed another night without US airstrikes on Sunday, as Washington paused a war nearing its fifth month and reports emerged that concerns over dwindling munitions were restraining plans for further escalation.
Tell (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) – Palestinians in the occupied West Bank village of Tell on Saturday buried four men killed during a clash with Israeli settlers the previous day, local officials said.
Damascus (AFP) – A crash between two passenger buses in a central-eastern desert region of Syria on Saturday killed at least 35 people, state media said.
Sao Paulo (AFP) – Brazil’s right-wing Liberal Party on Saturday formally nominated Flavio Bolsonaro, a 45-year-old senator and son of imprisoned ex-president Jair Bolsonaro, as its candidate in the October presidential election.
Moscow (AFP) – Ukrainian drones struck a Siberian oil refinery in a fresh wave of strikes Saturday, as Kazakhstan’s president told Russia’s Vladimir Putin the Ukraine war should end during a forum in Siberia’s Omsk.
Damascus (AFP) – UN chief Antonio Guterres on Saturday called for an end to Israeli violations in Syria and urged international support for the country’s transition on his first visit under the new authorities following years of civil war.
New Delhi (AFP) – India’s Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigned on Saturday after mass youth-led protests demanded his ouster in anger over a string of irregularities in potentially life-changing exams.
Five NGOs on Wednesday filed a case before France’s highest administrative court, seeking a ruling that would oblige the French government to take measures preventing French companies and economic institutions from conducting commercial activities in Israeli settlements.
Concern is mounting in Haiti and in the United States ahead of the planned end of Temporary Protected Status for Haitians on 27 July, which could leave nearly 350,000 people at risk of deportation from the US.
Sanaa (AFP) – […] Houthi rebels claimed a missile strike on Saudi Arabia on Saturday, hours after vowing to retaliate against the kingdom for attacks as the Middle East war expanded.
United Nations (United States) (AFP) – The United Nations General Assembly voted Friday to renew Volker Turk’s mandate as high commissioner for human rights for four years despite strong opposition from the United States, Russia and Israel.
In Tunisia long power outages across the country have added to the strain of an intense heatwave, with temperatures as high as 49C. In neighbouring Algeria, more than 100 people were hospitalised after wildfires, the country’s interior minister said this week.
Caracas (AFP) – Venezuela will withdraw from the International Criminal Court over the tribunal’s perceived bias, the nation’s foreign minister said Friday.
Washington (United States) (AFP) – US President Donald Trump said Friday that he had not decided on whether to launch major strikes on Iran yet, as Tehran was now getting “serious” in talks with Washington.
Paris (France) (AFP) – The International Olympic Committee has rejected a complaint filed by the human rights NGO FairSquare against FIFA president Gianni Infantino for alleged breaches of rules on political neutrality, an IOC spokesperson told AFP on Friday.
Two Ghanaian nationals have petitioned the International Criminal Court to open a preliminary investigation into attacks on foreign nationals in South Africa, arguing the violence could amount to crimes against humanity, as Ghana’s president repeated his call on Thursday for the African Union to address the ongoing unrest.
Kara (Togo) (AFP) – The bare-chested young men emerged from a forest ceremony in northern Togo chanting war songs, ready for the initiation tradition of “Evala” in which they wrestle to become men.
Geneva (AFP) – The United Nations on Friday called for the safe evacuation and repatriation of some 6,000 sailors stuck in a “dire humanitarian and human rights crisis” in the Strait of Hormuz.
London (AFP) – A landmark legal case involving hundreds of former rugby players who allege they suffered brain injuries during their careers is on the brink of collapse.
Manila (AFP) – The Philippines accused China’s coast guard of blasting a Filipino government vessel with a water cannon near a disputed South China Sea reef on Friday, the third confrontation between the two sides this week.
Seoul (AFP) – A South Korean court ordered an AI chip-manufacturing tycoon on Friday to make a trimmed-down $644 million divorce payment to his former wife.
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