The Israeli president is expected to nominate a candidate Tuesday to try to form a majority government following the latest inconclusive election, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the favourite. The March 23 election, Israel's fourth in unde...

Credit Suisse said Tuesday that it had taken a $4.7 billion hit from its links to troubled hedge fund Archegos Capital Management, cut dividends and announced the departure of two senior executives. The Swiss bank and Japan's Nomura warned last mon...

Lebanon's vaccine rollout is at risk of marginalising refugees and migrant workers who make up a third of the crisis-hit country's population, Human Rights Watch warned on Tuesday. "With one in three people in Lebanon a refugee or migrant, a third ...

More than one million households and businesses in Taiwan's heavily industrialised central regions were put on water rationing Tuesday, as the island battles its worst drought in 56 years. The shortage is expected to particularly impact the water-i...

Eight million inhabitants of Bogota will be put under strict lockdown from Saturday, mayor Claudia Lopez said as the Colombian city battles a third wave of the coronavirus pandemic. "This weekend, Saturday, Sunday and Monday, we are all going to st...

Credit Suisse said Tuesday that it had taken a $4.7 billion hit from its links to troubled hedge fund Archegos Capital Management, cut dividends and announced the departure of two senior executives. The Swiss bank and Japan's Nomura warned last mon...

The EU approved a plan Tuesday by the French government to inject up to four billion euros into Air France, hit by a collapse in passenger traffic during the pandemic. The agreement, worth $4.7 billion, follows weeks of negotiations with the EU com...

NASA's Ingenuity mini-helicopter has survived its first night alone on the frigid surface of Mars, the US space agency said, hailing it as "a major milestone" for the tiny craft as it prepares for its first flight. The ultra-light aircraft was drop...

A Tokyo Olympics water polo test event has been cancelled because sport officials cannot enter Japan due to coronavirus restrictions, reports said Tuesday. The event is only the latest victim of virus restrictions, which have forced the cancellatio...

New Zealand has approved quarantine-free travel with Australia, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Tuesday, completing a two-way corridor for travel between the largely Covid-free neighbours. "I can confirm that quarantine-free travel will begin in...

When in 2019 Nigerian painter Julius Agbaje depicted President Muhammadu Buhari as the Joker, he never imagined that a year later his portrait would become a symbol of youth protest. His image, "Joke's on You," showing Buhari with a red nose, white...

Rescuers were searching for dozens of people still missing after floods and landslides swept away villages in Indonesia and East Timor, killing more than 150 people and leaving thousands more homeless. Torrential rains from Tropical Cyclone Seroja ...

The first women's major of the season, the ANA Inspiration, concluded Sunday and is followed rapidly by the men at The Masters beginning on Thursday at Augusta, with both featuring in AFP Sport's golf talking points this week: - Move over Bryson - ...

The European Union's top two officials will pay a rare visit on Tuesday to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan aimed at testing his avowed commitment to improve uneasy ties. Years of disagreements over a growing list of issues threatened to boil...