Oliver Farry is pleased to welcome Chiara Sangiorgio, Amnesty International's Death penalty specialist. In Amnesty International’s latest global report on the death penalty, 2025 emerges as a grim landmark year: at least 2,707 executions were reco...

One of the men, who identified himself as a 24-year-old college student, was arrested Sunday after climbing over a fence and dropping into a dry moat surrounding the monkey exhibit at Ichikawa City Zoo outside Tokyo. The other man, who was filming ...

Hong Kong, along with Macau, used to be the only places in China where people could publicly mourn Beijing's deadly crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989. Defendants Lee Cheuk-yan, 69, and Chow Hang-tung, 41, ...

Tucked among his expedition gear is the kite in red, black, white and green of the Palestinian flag, marked with handwritten messages from children in the battered territory. The war, sparked by Hamas's October 2023 attack on Israel, has killed mor...

France, which currently chairs the rotating presidency of the Group of Seven, faces the tricky task of keeping dialogue open as trade feuds spurred by US President Donald Trump's tariff blitz compound geopolitical tensions. Reducing reliance on Chi...

Lille lost to Auxerre (2-0) but retain third place at the end of the final matchday of Ligue 1. Lyon finish fourth and Marseille fifth.

"Hope" by Na, whose low-budget horror movie "The Wailing" became a huge hit in his home country, was able to give free rein to his dark imagination in this gory tale of alien invasion. "It's the most expensive film in the history of Korean cinema,"...

The freight train crashed into the public bus on Saturday afternoon at a busy junction in Bangkok, with the vehicle bursting into flames and 30 people left injured, authorities said. Police charged the train driver, who was also injured, and a rail...

A poster, T-shirt, and hoodie -- priced between $35 and $67 -- commemorating China's victories at the World Team Table Tennis Championships in London last week featured a Chinese flag with six stars instead of five. A later version appeared with th...

"These ships are a lifeline for the people," 18-year-old Washington told AFP, travelling between two tiny green specks in the 800-kilometre-long (500-mile) Indian Ocean chain, from Chowra to the slightly larger Car Nicobar. "If I had missed this on...

Anthropologist Anstice Justin, 71, took part in the government's limited contact missions to the restricted North Sentinel island in the Andaman Sea between 1986 and 2004. The island's inhabitants are famously resistant to engaging with outsiders, ...

Designed to rival China's investments around the Indian Ocean, New Delhi's colossal project will be built on Great Nicobar Island, a site offering a naval presence far closer to Southeast Asia than India's mainland. Authorities promise sweeping eco...

For several days, biologists from Buenos Aires will set traps at various locations on the southern island of Tierra del Fuego to analyze whether the captured rodents carry the Andes strain of the virus, the only one known to spread between people. ...

The world's second-largest economy has struggled to mount a strong recovery since the Covid-19 pandemic ended, despite a historic boom in exports. Economists have long argued that China should shift towards an economic model led more by household s...

The United States and Iran agreed to a truce in April but negotiations have stalled and sporadic attacks in the region have continued. US President Donald Trump issued a new warning to Tehran on Sunday, saying it must move quickly towards a peace d...