The incident at Scarborough Shoal, which took place during an attempt to resupply Filipino fishermen, came as top diplomats wrapped up a Southeast Asian regional forum in Manila. Beijing claims most of the South China Sea, including the flashpoint ...

Abandoned by his mother and spurned by some peers, the young macaque shot to stardom after he was seen clinging to a plush orangutan toy from IKEA for comfort at Ichikawa City Zoo outside Tokyo. In February, the zoo started releasing social media v...

The total area of land burnt so far this year in EU countries is the second largest on record, according to satellite data from the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS). The blazes are breaking out faster because of climate change caused...

Two years after the riots that shook New Caledonia in 2024, FRANCE 24 returns to a French overseas territory still grappling with the consequences of one of the darkest chapters in its recent history. Travelling from the Kanak independenc...

Starting this Friday, the United States will impose new tariffs on imports from 60 trading partners, covering 99 percent of all goods entering the country. The new measures replace the temporary 10 percent global tariff introduced 150 days ago after...

In France, fires raging near the country's prized wine country of Bordeaux forced hundreds of people to flee the Cap Ferret peninsula in the middle of the summer vacation season as the blaze devoured an area nearly twice the size of Manhattan. In S...

Chey Tae-won, 65, is the chairman of the SK Group, which owns world-leading memory chipmaker SK hynix -- a pillar of South Korea's tech-led economy. Seoul High Court in 2024 had told him to pay 1.38 trillion won ($940 million) to his ex-wife Roh So...

Every mid-July, thousands of ethnic Kabye men aged 18 to 20 take part in the ancestral rite of passage in the west African nation's Kara region, hundreds of kilometres (miles) from the capital, Lome. And authorities hope it will soon be recognised...

Boats have ferried more than 400 people so far from the Cap Ferret peninsula that stretches along France's Atlantic coast west of the city of Bordeaux, city authorities said. The fire raging near one of France's prized wine regions has so far devou...

A record 16-nation line-up -- up from 12 at the previous edition -- will compete with 10-time title-holders and defending champions Nigeria the team to beat. The last success of the Super Falcons was spectacular. Trailing Morocco by two goals at h...