1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (745+ words) Thimphu (Bhutan) (AFP) – Farmer Pema Dema had never even heard of hazelnuts when she was first recruited to begin growing them on her land in Bhutan's Thimphu region. Issued on: 12/09/2026 - 05:27 "I wondered what sort of a nut it was," the…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago   (687+ words) Hong Kong (AFP) – Asian stocks tumbled Friday as oil prices extended gains and bond yields held at multi-year highs as the Middle East crisis stoked supply concerns and a forecast-topping US inflation report ramped up rate hike bets. Issued on:…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago   (724+ words) Lugano (Switzerland) (AFP) – A revolution in forecasting natural disasters is underway, say researchers in Switzerland who are training AI models on vast troves of NASA climate data to produce potentially-lifesaving data at lightning speed. Issued on: 11/09/2026 - 04:35 They are feeding the…...

2+ day, 5+ hour ago   (629+ words) Washington (United States) (AFP) – A consumer inflation report due Friday could pave the way towards the US central bank's first interest rate hike in more than three years, as the war with Iran drives energy costs higher. Issued on: 11/09/2026 - 03:11 After…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago   (62+ words) France 24 Issued on: 10/09/2026 - 22:20 In tonight's edition, a dramatic struggle for control of a throne in Uganda. Also, Rwanda shut down 101 alcoholic beverage factories last month and declared a public health crisis after at least 50 people were killed by contaminated illegal…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (611+ words) Washington (United States) (AFP) – US President Donald Trump will offer $5,000 to all American adults if Republicans are successful in November midterm elections. He promises the handouts should the party retain control of both the House of Representatives and the Senates,…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (498+ words) Berlin (AFP) – The leader of the United Arab Emirates was on a state visit to Germany on Thursday that resulted in a promise to invest 40 billion euros ($46.5 billion) into Europe's top economy. Issued on: 10/09/2026 - 18:47 The money would partly pay for…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (120+ words) France 24 - We and our partners use cookies or similar technologies to access and store non-sensitive information such as your IP address. - The processing of your personal data allows us, for example, to improve your user experience, monitor audience ratings, offer…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (176+ words) President Donald Trump capped the first day of his Republican Party's ​first-ever midterm convention by proposing to pay every US adult a $5,000 "Trump dividend" if his party wins November's congressional elections. Trump delivered the extraordinary overture during a primetime speech…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (177+ words) An artificial intelligence researcher who left OpenAI to join Anthropic has decided to leave the industry, accusing both US companies of "gambling with our lives" in the race to develop AI models capable of self-improvement. Anthropic safety executive Evan Hubinger…...