Jerusalem (AFP) Mar 9, 2026 - As Israel's national consciousness rallies behind the country's second offensive against Iran in under a year, a small group of anti-war activists equipped with posters and loudspeakers have mobilised to voice dissent.
Paris, France Mar 9, 2026 - Antarctic sea ice coverage has likely rebounded this year, coming closer to its annual summer average after four years of extreme lows, US scientists said Monday.
Washington, United States (AFP) Mar 9, 2026 - The satellite image posted by an Iranian news outlet looked real: a devastated US base in Qatar. But it was an AI-generated fake, underscoring the accelerating threat of tech-enabled disinformation during wartime.
Paris, France (AFP) Mar 9, 2026 - With the selection of Mojtaba Khamenei to succeed his father Ali as Iran's supreme leader, the country's ultraconservatives have defied the United States and Israel and signalled their intent to keep the war going, experts told AFP.
Lausanne (AFP) Mar 9, 2026 - Four years after world sport rushed to ban Russia for invading Ukraine, the leading governing bodies are reacting guardedly to the US-led attack on Iran, raising accusations of double standards.
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Mar 09, 2026 - Crystalline silicon solar cells dominate the global photovoltaic industry, and tunnel oxide passivating contact (TOPCon) architectures are rapidly gaining market share because they offer strong perf
Nairobi (AFP) Mar 9, 2026 - Flash flooding after torrential rains in Kenya has killed at least 45 people and forced hundreds to leave their homes, police said Monday.
Paris, France (AFP) Mar 9, 2026 - The war in the Middle East is unlikely to trigger a collapse of the world economy on the scale of the 2008 global financial crisis, Nobel prize-winning economist Philippe Aghion said Monday.
Beirut, Lebanon (AFP) Mar 9, 2026 - Hezbollah on Monday said it was engaging Israeli forces who landed in eastern Lebanon, the second such operation since the outbreak of the latest conflict with Israel.
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Mar 30. 2026 - Researchers at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology have demonstrated a fully solvent free route to high performance perovskite solar cells using an all vacuum deposition process that
Beirut, Lebanon (AFP) Mar 9, 2026 - Lebanon's parliament on Monday postponed legislative elections by two years, according to a statement from the parliament speaker, due to the war between Israel and Iran-backed group Hezbollah.
Paris, France (AFP) Mar 9, 2026 - Ships anchored in the Gulf or transiting the Strait of Hormuz are changing their tracking data to boast links to China in an attempt to evade Iranian attacks, according to data from shipping tracker Marine Traffic analysed by AFP.
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Mar 09, 2026 - Microplastics are now recognized as a growing threat to farmland as well as oceans and rivers, with new research highlighting how plastic particles in soil host intricate interactions between microb
Washington, United States (AFP) Mar 9, 2026 - Anthropic filed suit Monday against the Trump administration, alleging the US government retaliated against the AI company for refusing to let its Claude AI model be used for autonomous lethal warfare and mass surveillance of Americans.
Paris, France (SPX) Mar 09, 2026 - Three years ago, the KM3NeT/ARCA neutrino detector in the Mediterranean Sea recorded the passage of an ultra-energetic cosmic neutrino, the most energetic neutrino ever detected, with an energy of a
Santiago, Chile (AFP) Mar 9, 2026 - Chile's outgoing president and his successor met Sunday to cool tensions, after publicly clashing over a Chinese fiber optic cable project, with both promising a smooth handover of power on March 11.
