PARIS, France - The French government said Tuesday that it would soon shut down an activist climate group over a series of recent demonstrations including one that led to fierce clashes with police over a controversial irrigation project. Government spokesman Olivier Veran accused the...
MADRID, Spain - Spain's Supreme Court on Tuesday began examining a case filed by Greenpeace and other environmental groups accusing the central government of insufficient action to tackle climate change, the court and NGOs said. A spokeswoman confirmed the court had begun assessing the...
OSLO, Norway - Norway said Tuesday it plans to open parts of its continental shelf to commercial deep-sea mining exploration, a controversial move it hoped would set the standard for good practices. The announcement comes a day after the UN adopted the first international treaty to protect...
BORDEAUX, France - The French government faced accusations from the right on Tuesday of failing to ensure public security after a video of a woman and her granddaughter being attacked on their doorstep prompted shock in France. The grandmother, aged 73, and her granddaughter, 7, were attacked...
In this picture taken on June 8, 2023, a boy fills up a canister with water from a tanker truck on the outskirts of Yemen's third city of Taez. AHMAD AL-BASHA / AFP TAEZ, Yemen --Â Every day at dawn, 14-year-old Salim Mohammad leaves home to fetch water, trekking through his city in southwestern...
WASHINGTON, United States -- Singapore Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan said Friday that conditions were not yet right for ASEAN to open high-level talks with Myanmar on the country's political situation. "We believe it would be premature to re-engage with the junta at a summit level or even at...
Residents are seen at the premises of an attack in Mpondwe, Uganda, on June 17, 2023 at the Mpondwe Lhubiriha Secondary School. AFP MPONDWE, Uganda -- Militants linked to the Islamic State group hacked and burned 37 students to death in western Uganda in the country's worst such attack in over a...
(L-R) Britain's Prince George of Wales, Britain's Catherine, Princess of Wales, Britain's Prince Louis of Wales, Britain's Prince William, Prince of Wales, Britain's Princess Charlotte of Wales, Britain's King Charles III, Britain's Queen Camilla, Britain's Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh and...
TOKYO, Japan -- Japan's age of consent was raised from 13, among the world's lowest, to 16 years old on Friday as lawmakers passed key reforms to sex crime legislation. The reforms, which also clarify rape prosecution requirements and criminalise voyeurism, cleared parliament's upper house in a...
Children cycle along a street in Khartoum on June 14, 2023. AFP KHARTOUM, Sudan -- The conflict in Sudan has displaced more than one million children including 270,000 in the Darfur region, the United Nations children's agency said, warning many more were at "grave risk". Fighting has raged in...
VILLAROCHE, France -- France will pump hundreds of millions of euros into developing low-emission aircraft, engines and aviation fuel in the coming years, President Emmanuel Macron said Friday. Paris would dedicate 300 million euros ($330 million) to aircraft and motor research, Macron said during a...
LA ROCHE-SUR-YON, France -- A man confessed to the killing of his wife who has been missing for two and a half months in western France and has led investigators to her body, police said on Friday. Karine Esquivillon, 54, a mother-of-five, disappeared on March 27 without a trace from her home in the...
