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Screenshot of the false post, taken October 3, 2024. The photo was shared thousands of times with the same false claim on Facebook and X. AFP debunked a similar claim after it emerged in…
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — With his major opponents imprisoned or left off the ballot, Tunisian President Kais Saied faces few obstacles to winning reelection on Sunday, five years after riding…
Footage of two unrelated events in Algeria and Indonesia has been viewed thousands of times alongside a false claim it shows the aftermath of a Hezbollah attack on Israel. The clips --…
I have flown more than a million miles with dozens of airlines around the world – and have lost count of how many times I’ve hopped on an Air China plane for the short trip from Beijing to…
The governor of the Falkland Islands has sought to calm concerns over the territory’s sovereignty following the UK’s deal to hand over the Chagos Islands. The UK has agreed to give up…
Apparent Israeli bombing has caused large explosions just outside Beirut's international airport during a further night of air strikes targeting Hezbollah in the city. It is not clear what…
(Bloomberg) -- Brookfield Asset Management and Mark Carney have been targeted by a member of Canada’s Conservative Party who wants Canada’s lobbying watchdog to investigate them. Most Read…
(Bloomberg) -- Mexico’s Supreme Court agreed to a request by judges and magistrates to consider a review of the judicial overhaul approved by congress last month, according a person with…
At least 18 people have been killed in an Israeli air strike in the occupied West Bank city of Tulkarm, the Palestinian health ministry said late on Thursday. The Palestinian Authority-run…
Israel continued to pound Lebanon on Thursday, as it launched further attacks on the Iran-backed Hezbollah militia, including in central Beirut, while calling on residents in southern…
Canadian authorities recently located and detained a Ferndale man who is wanted for questioning in a Whatcom County sexual assault investigation. John Aaron Brooks, 37, traveled to Canada…
At least 78 people have died after a ferry capsized on Lake Kivu, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, just a few hundred metres from its destination. The boat was travelling from the…
Israeli conducted strikes near the Syrian coast this morning, with explosions reported in the vicinity of the Russian-operated Khmeimim Air Base, near the city of Latakia. At this stage,…
BREST, France — The French Navy has ordered an autonomous underwater vehicle from Exail that will surveil critical infrastructure at depths of up to 6,000 meters, the company announced.…
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Rescuers searched Thursday for dozens of migrants from Africa still missing after smugglers apparently forced them out of two boats in the Red Sea off the coast…
The Israeli army has struck the media office of Lebanese militia Hezbollah south of Beirut, the Iran-backed militia says. Videos circulating on social media said to show the building…
Iranians have been expressing a mixture of pride, uncertainty and fear since their country launched a large-scale ballistic missile attack on Israel on Tuesday night. Within minutes of the…
Nigeria’s health sector has come under pressure following the exit of foreign pharmaceutical companies, a void that has led to surging medicine prices and fears of substandard products. A…
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says more people from the former East Germany should have senior posts in the nation's company boardrooms. The proportion of those in such jobs "can be…
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has sacked his powerful and long-serving spy chief Gen Akol Koor Kuc. He became head of the feared National Security Services (NSS) after independence in…
’Twas 85 nights before Christmas when the decorations went up – at least in Venezuela, where President Nicolás Maduro has decided festivities should start early in an apparent attempt to…
Lights flashed inside a theater on Norwegian Cruise Line’s newest ship. But they weren’t part of a stage show. A worker was welding on the second level of what will eventually be the…
German flag carrier Lufthansa, announced on Thursday that it is resuming certain flights to destinations in the Middle East. However, the airline has decided not to use Iranian and Iraqi…
STOCKHOLM (AP) — The Right Livelihood Award was awarded Thursday to three activists from the Palestinian territories, the Philippines and Mozambique and to a U.K. pioneering research…
