By AFP 10 May 2024   |   9:15 am British Airways parent IAG slashed net losses in the first quarter thanks to growing travel demand, the group said on…

Israel launched fresh strikes in the Gaza Strip Friday after negotiators pursuing a long-stalled truce agreement left talks in Cairo without having secured a deal. AFP journalists in the Gaza…

With Mammoth’s 72 industrial fans, Swiss start-up Climeworks intends to suck 36,000 tonnes of CO2 from the air annually to bury underground, vying to prove the technology has a place…

In the heart of Cotonou’s large Dantokpa market, Diane Makpenon’s family corn shop is less busy than usual these days. The business run by her mother like others in Benin’s…

Heatstroke has killed 61 people in Thailand so far this year, more than in all of 2023, the health ministry said on Friday after weeks of scorching weather across the…

Britain exited recession with stronger-than-expected growth in the first quarter of 2024, official data showed Friday, in a boost to embattled Prime Minister Rishi Sunak ahead of this year’s election….

Thirty years after South Africa transitioned to democracy and a decade after Nelson Mandela’s death, the Nelson Mandela Foundation, the official custodian of his personal archive, has granted its long-time…

Chad’s junta chief Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno won this week’s presidential election in the first round, according to provisional official results released on Thursday, extending his family’s decades-long grip on…

Russia needs to modernise its weapons so it is “one step ahead” and will use whatever foreign parts it can get to make them despite sanctions, President Vladimir Putin said….

By AFP 09 May 2024   |   2:29 pm Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday officially appointed former commander-in-chief of the armed forces Valery Zaluzhny, 50, as ambassador to…