Persistent efforts by developers and powerful individuals to seize chunks of the bush as their own were defeated under historic laws enacted to protect Kenya's dwindling forests from unchecked logging and environmental destruction. But a proposal e...

So what are the must-see moments? AFP picks out some suggestions: Thursday, February 3: King defends his crown The freestyle skiers make an early start with the moguls in which Canadian Mikael Kingsbury, an 18-time world champion and perhaps the m...

The operation was thought to be the biggest of its kind by US forces in the jihadist-controlled Idlib region since the 2019 raid that killed Islamic State group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. The targets of the latest operation around the town of Atm...

Shell said in a statement that net profit stood at $20.1 billion after a loss after tax of $21.7 billion in 2020, as economies reopened from pandemic lockdowns. "2021 was a momentous year for Shell," said chief executive Ben van Beurden, noting tha...

Consumer prices surged by a stronger-than-expected 48.7 percent from the same period in January last year, up from an annual rate of 36.1 percent in December, according to the Turkish statistics agency. The reading came out just days after Presiden...

In an interview with Chinese media, Putin denied his government had orchestrated a massive doping programme at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Russia, revelations that spurred a raft of penalties from international sporting bodies. "Russia has been and...

The Japanese giant posted its highest-ever annual profit in 2020-21, buoyed by a surge in interest as the coronavirus pandemic forced people to seek indoor entertainment. Even as restrictions ease, Nintendo said it expects to post a 400 billion yen...

Pullin, the Australian team flag bearer at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, was found unresponsive on the ocean floor off the Australian coast in 2020. Cameron Bolton, a member of Australia's snowboard cross team, said Pullin's memory lives on with ...

Net profit stood at $20.1 billion following a loss after tax of $21.7 billion in 2020, Shell said in a statement on Thursday. "2021 was a momentous year for Shell," said chief executive Ben van Beurden, noting that the group also simplified its nam...

The National Butterfly Center in Texas, located on the banks of the Rio Grande that separates the United States from Mexico, had filed a complaint to block construction of the border wall that became a centerpiece of Trump's presidency, saying it th...

When offered the chance to protect her children with the world's first vaccine against the deadly parasitic disease, Akinyi jumped at the chance. More than 100,000 children in malaria-endemic western Kenya have received the new vaccine against the ...

But Kilde admitted after the men's first downhill training run on Thursday that living in the same Yanqing Olympic Village as Shiffrin with strict Covid-19 protocols in place was a "tease". "Everybody says 'Yeah, now you can spend so much time toge...

Cambodia, which currently holds the bloc's rotating chairmanship, said there had been too little progress on a "five-point consensus" agreed by leaders last year to try to defuse the crisis gripping Myanmar. The country has been in turmoil since th...

In his first interview since returning from talks with Western powers in Oslo, Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi also urged Washington to unlock Afghanistan's assets to help ease a humanitarian crisis. No country has formally recognised the govern...

"It seems like the video and the efforts of my Olympic committee have really paid off," the 25-year-old Belgian said in a video message. "At 11.35pm there was a knock on my door and I was escorted to the Olympic Village. "I am now in a wing that's...