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World
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Africa
9/12/2024 9:36:55 PM
The head of the African Union's health watchdog said Thursday it was time for the West to show it had learnt from the Covid pandemic and not abandon Africa during the mpox outbreak.
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World
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Africa
9/4/2024 5:44:00 PM
The first delivery of mpox vaccines will arrive in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday, the African Union's health watchdog said.
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World
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Region
9/4/2024 11:01:52 AM
European aid sent to Lebanon in an attempt to regulate migration by sea is funding practices that violate human rights, according to a global watchdog report published Wednesday by Human Rights Watch.
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World
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Region
8/30/2024 4:11:31 PM
The head of the UN's nuclear watchdog hopes to visit Iran soon for talks with newly-elected Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, according to a confidential report seen by AFP on late Thursday.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
8/28/2024 12:00:20 PM
US President Joe Biden ordered the construction of a temporary pier to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza earlier this year even as some staffers for the U.S. Agency for International Development expressed concerns that the effort would be difficult to pull off and undercut the effort to persuade Israel to open “more efficient” land crossings to get food into the territory, according to a USAID inspector general report published Tuesday.
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Business
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Tech
8/26/2024 1:39:01 PM
The Dutch data protection watchdog said Monday it hit ride-hailing app Uber with a 290-million-euro ($324 million) fine over the transfer of personal data of European drivers to US servers.
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World
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Africa
8/13/2024 6:02:18 PM
The African Union's health watchdog on Tuesday declared a public health emergency over the growing mpox outbreak on the continent, saying the move is a "clarion call for action".
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Life & Style
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Health
7/26/2024 5:56:17 PM
Europe's medicines watchdog on Friday rejected a marketing request for a new Alzheimer's disease treatment, saying the risks of the medicine's side effects, including potential brain bleeding, outweighed the benefits.
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Paris 2024
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News
7/25/2024 3:54:10 PM
World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) chief Witold Banka said Thursday his organisation plans to review the USA's Rodchenkov Anti-Doping Act to ensure it was compliance with the global watchdog's rules.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
7/3/2024 2:54:16 PM
An anti-settlement watchdog says Israel has approved the largest seizure of land in the occupied West Bank in over three decades.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
7/3/2024 9:34:50 AM
An anti-settlement watchdog group says Israeli authorities are scheduled to approve or advance the construction of over 6,000 new settlement homes in the occupied West Bank in the coming days.
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World
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International
6/17/2024 2:31:30 PM
The world's nine nuclear-armed states continue to modernize their nuclear weapons as the countries deepened their reliance on such deterrence in 2023, a Swedish think tank said Monday.
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World
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Region
6/15/2024 3:38:01 PM
France, Germany and Britain on Saturday condemned Iran's "latest measures", after the United Nations atomic watchdog said the country was expanding its nuclear capacities.
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World
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Region
6/13/2024 8:45:27 PM
Iran is further expanding its nuclear capacities, the UN atomic watchdog said Thursday, one week after the agency's board of governors passed a resolution criticising Tehran's lack of cooperation with the IAEA.
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World
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International
6/5/2024 8:00:10 PM
The International Atomic Energy Agency's 35-nation board of governors has passed a resolution criticising Iran's lack of cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog, three diplomats told AFP on Wednesday.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
5/27/2024 10:07:43 AM
Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said on Monday it had filed a complaint with the International Criminal Court over Palestinian journalists killed or injured in Gaza.
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World
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Region
5/4/2024 2:04:44 PM
Media watchdog group Reporters Without Borders warned of declining government support for press freedom as it unveiled its annual world rankings on Friday, highlighting Argentina among the countries where the situation has deteriorated.
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Life & Style
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Health
5/2/2024 1:49:24 PM
The EU's drug watchdog urged that anti-Covid jabs be updated before another round of vaccinations to counter a new variant of the virus, which is still claiming thousands of lives.
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World
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Region
2/26/2024 8:45:43 PM
The UN nuclear watchdog has voiced growing concern over Iran's ability to build nuclear weapons, fuelled by public statements in the country, a confidential report seen by AFP on Monday said.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
2/15/2024 3:50:56 PM
Israeli settlers established a record number of wildcat outposts in the occupied West Bank in 2023, a watchdog said on Thursday.
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