French lawmakers approved a bill banning social media for children under 15, paving the way for the measure to enter into force at the start of the next school year in September, as the idea of settin...
The worldâs billionaires grew richer than ever in 2025, charity Oxfam said on Monday, warning of âhighly dangerousâ political consequences as elites gather at the World Economic Forum in Davos. It sai...
Getty Images; Tyler Le/BI From Davos to Washington to America's high school classrooms, people are questioning the foundations of our economic system — and we at Business Insider are tracking wh...
The United Nations announced it will assume control of the Al-Hol camp in north-eastern Syria, which houses thousands of people suspected of having links to the Islamic State group, after Kurdish-led ...
El Salvador's gang-busting President Nayib Bukele on Wednesday laid the foundation stone for a prison in Costa Rica modeled on his own CECOT mega-jail that rights groups say is the setting for serious...
Venezuela released about 100 detainees classified as political prisoners, pressured by the Trump administration. Despite this, the interim government denies having political prisoners, claiming the de...
US President Donald Trump has unveiled his âBoard of Peace,â a $1 billion initiative aimed at resolving international conflicts through permanent membership. Meanwhile, medical sources at Al-Shifa Hos...
Billionaire wealth surged at three times âits recent pace âlast year to reach its highest level on record, deepening economic and political divides that threaten democratic â stability, anti-poverty gr...
Friday marks the fifth day since the last demonstrations in Tehran, FRANCE 24 correspondent Siavosh Ghazi reported from the Iranian capital. He said the news agency Tasnim, which is linked to the Revo...
Despite an increase in the number of women of childbearing age in France, the number giving birth is at a low. In 2025 there were more deaths than births which has some towns concerned that they are l...
Iran's judiciary chief on Wednesday called for fast-track trials for detained protesters, despite US President Donald Trump's threat of "very strong action" if the Islamic republic goes ahead with exe...
Getty Images; Alyssa Powell/BI In my early 30s, I was working long hours as the editor in chief of a magazine, juggling deadlines and the looming "should we have kids?" question — all wh...
UN âhuman rights chief Volker Turk said Tuesday he was "horrified" by the violence in Iran as a government crackdown continued. The Human Rights Activists News Agency estimated the death toll at 646 w...
Internet access was partially restored in Iran after two weeks of blackout during the anti-government protests which authorities violently cracked down on. This partial access allowed thousands of vid...
A day after the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) agreed to quit large parts of Syria under a ceasefire, the Syrian army said "a number of" Islamic State (IS) group prisoners, who had been un...
François Picard welcomes Venezuelan author Vicente UliveâSchnell who offers a thoughtful assessment of recent geopolitical developments in Venezuela, following the US military operation, and the reali...
As Minneapolis mourns 37-year-old VA intensive care nurse Alex Pretti, fatally shot by US Border Patrol agent, Eve Irvine is joined by Dr. Ernesto Castañeda, Director of the Center for Latin American ...
A jailed activist has lost a judicial review against a Hong Kong Correctional Services Department rule that prohibits female inmates from wearing shorts in summer, with the court ruling that the women...
Indonesiaâs ambitious free nutritious meals programme has fed more than 55 million people in its first year, a scale-up President Prabowo Subianto has hailed as a major step in tackling childhood maln...
An appeal trial opened in Paris on Monday for four men convicted over the 2020 beheading of schoolteacher Samuel Paty, which shocked France. Paty, 47, was murdered by an 18-year-old Islamist radical f...