Hundreds of Taliban fighters were killed in fierce battles with government forces across several provinces of Afghanistan, officials said Saturday, as Washington announced it would finish withdrawing its troops from the country by the end of August....

Protesters in coup-hit Myanmar marked the birthday of junta leader Min Aung Hlaing Saturday by burning his portrait and staging fake funerals. The nation has experienced mass protests and a brutal military response since the February 1 coup which o...

Former France captain and current team manager Raphael Ibanez admitted Saturday two weeks in quarantine had hurt their chances ahead of the opening Test against Australia, but expressed confidence in his young team. Les Bleus have been in a strict ...

A huge landslide swept away homes and left 19 people missing at a popular resort town in central Japan on Saturday after days of heavy rain, local officials said. Television footage showed a torrent of mud obliterating some buildings and burying ot...

Japanese two-way player Shohei Ohtani belted two home runs and scored the winning run to lift the Los Angeles Angels to a thrilling 8-7 win over the Baltimore Orioles on Friday night. The 26-year-old Angels phenom showed his record-setting power on...

TikTok was running again in Pakistan Saturday after a provincial court lifted suspension of the popular social media service but ordered it to address complaints that it hosted objectionable content. The Pakistan Telecoms Authority (PTA) blocked ac...

A US IT company urged customers to shut down their servers Friday after cyberattackers smuggled ransomware onto its network platform. Kaseya said Friday evening that it had limited the attack to "a very small percentage of our customers" who use it...

Journalist Nathan Maung turned to meditation when he was jailed for reporting on Myanmar's bloody coup, but even back home in sleepy Virginia, he can't forget those left behind, including a colleague still at the mercy of their jailers. In March, a...

NBA veterans Patty Mills and Joe Ingles spearhead Australia's Olympic basketball squad announced Saturday, with coach Brian Goorjian saying anything less than a gold medal will be disappointing. Ranked three in the world, the Boomers boast plenty o...

Roger Federer has often been the spectators' darling on Centre Court for two decades but the eight-time Wimbledon champion will have to cede that role to British opponent Cameron Norrie on Saturday. Federer's clinical performance against Richard Ga...

Tyler Johnson scored twice as Tampa Bay are one win away from claiming back-to-back Stanley Cup titles after the Lightning clobbered the Montreal Canadiens 6-3 in game three of the Stanley Cup finals on Friday night. Johnson scored twice on the bac...

With just four women among the directors behind the 24 films in competition for the Palme d'Or, a familiar script is playing out at Cannes. Only one woman has ever won the film industry's most prestigious prize: Jane Campion for "The Piano" in 199...

The Cannes Film Festival has vowed to go green, even trimming its red carpet in half -- but can it make any difference to an industry built around private jets and rampant consumption? Movie stars from Leonardo DiCaprio to Juliette Binoche have mad...

Ahead of its return on Tuesday, AFP spoke to Cannes Film Festival director Thierry Fremaux about the nail-biting build-up and efforts to address criticism on questions of the environment and gender. Q: It's the first edition since the pandemic. Wil...

It will be a feast for the ears as well as the eyes on the Croisette this year with a string of films celebrating musical heroes across different eras and cultures. - Opening Sparks - Wild film-maker meets legendary band in the opening film of th...