GENEVA, Switzerland -- A third of the world's population is still without access to the internet, even though the number of people connected has never been so high, according to the latest UN statistics published on Tuesday. Around 100 million more people are able to access the internet since last...
PARIS, France -- French regulators on Tuesday ordered Apple to halt sales of the iPhone 12 for emitting too much electromagnetic radiation, and to fix existing handsets. The French agency that regulates radio frequencies, the ANFR, said testing found that the model emits more electromagnetic waves...
This handout photograph released on September 12, 2023 by ETH Zurich shows the 'mythen' electric vehicle during test at Dubendorf airport. (Photo by ALESSANDRO DELLA BELLA / ETH ZURICH / AFP) GENEVA, Switzerland -- From zero to 100 km/h in less than a second: a racing car built by students has...
Overturned cars lay among other debris caused by flash floods in Derna, eastern Libya, on September 11, 2023. Flash floods in eastern Libya killed more than 2,300 people in the Mediterranean coastal city of Derna alone, the emergency services of the Tripoli-based government said on September 12....
US Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) speaks to reporters outside of his office at the US Capitol Building on September 12, 2023 in Washington, DC. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced Tuesday that he endorsed launching a formal impeachment inquiry into US President Joe Biden. (Photo by...
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the Far Eastern Federal University campus on Russky island in the far-eastern Russian port of Vladivostok on April 25, 2019. North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un departed Pyongyang on September 12, 2023 on a train to Russia...
PARIS, France - For the first time, world demand for oil, gas and coal is forecast to peak this decade due to the "spectacular" growth of cleaner energy technologies and electric cars, the International Energy Agency's chief said Tuesday. The IEA's annual World Energy Outlook, due out next...
BEIJING, China - China outlined on Tuesday a raft of measures for strengthening integration with Taiwan, in an indication that Beijing aims to expand links with the self-ruled island that were severed during the Covid-19 pandemic. China claims the democratic island as part of its territory and...
MARRAKESH, Morocco - Hopes dimmed on Tuesday in Morocco's search for survivors, four days after a powerful earthquake killed more than 2,800 people, most of them in remote villages of the High Atlas Mountains. Search-and-rescue teams from the kingdom and from abroad kept digging through the...
WARSAW, Poland - The Polish government on Tuesday agreed to extend a ban on Ukrainian grain imports unilaterally even if the current EU restrictions expire on September 15. "Regardless of the (European) Commission's further decision, we will not open the border to Ukrainian grain after that...
MARSEILLE, France - A 24-year-old woman has died after being hit by a stray bullet in an attack on a drug-dealing hotspot in the French Mediterranean city of Marseille, prosecutors said on Tuesday. The woman was hit late on Sunday evening when a burst of fire from a Kalashnikov rifle tore...
GENEVA, Switzerland - Climate change is sparking human rights emergencies in numerous countries, the UN rights chief said Monday, stressing the need to fight the impunity of those who "plunder our environment." Speaking before the United Nations Human Rights Council, Volker Turk pointed to recent...
