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French security forces do not have orders to "confront" protesting high school students, the prime minister said Wednesday, as allegations of police brutality mounted following days of protests that have shaken the country.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday flexed American power and called on Europe to shake off its "long slumber" in a rousing speech delivered beneath the Acropolis in Athens.

A remote island near Antarctica is no longer home to the world's largest penguin colony as climate-driven changes to ocean food chains likely devastated its once-thriving inhabitants, a new study said Wednesday.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday insisted on the US right to flex its "national power" in a fiery speech in Athens and said that Europe had to "awaken from its long slumber."

Wednesday's Nobel chemistry prize crowned a series of advances that started in the 19th century and led to breakthroughs for modern pharmaceutical manufacturing.

French luxury giant Louis Vuitton, part of the LVMH conglomerate of France's richest person Bernard Arnault, is to fund the redevelopment of two streets in central Paris around its future Champs-Elysees superstore, the Paris city hall announced Wednesday.

HSBC said Wednesday consultations were underway, after the Financial Times reported that hundreds of jobs were at risk from the bank's adoption of artificial intelligence.

The Court of Appeal in London on Wednesday quashed the criminal convictions of five former financial traders for manipulating the Libor and Euribor interest rate benchmarks, the latest twist in the long-running rigging scandal.

Guinea capped prices on bottled water on Wednesday amid a shortage after a plastic ban scuttled the selling of pocket-sized drinking water sachets used by a large part of the population.

The recognition highlights XM’s established global customer experience infrastructure and its continued focus on supporting traders across international markets.

Oil prices rose Wednesday on fresh concerns about Middle East supplies following a warning that Iran appeared to be stepping up attacks in the Strait of Hormuz, weighing on stock markets.

Nobel Prize for physics winner Francis Halzen spoke with pride on Wednesday about his early promotion of artificial intelligence in his research on neutrinos.

Ukraine's agriculture minister on Wednesday said his country would not agree to EU membership if that would entail permanent restrictions on farm subsidies and exports of agricultural products.

British energy giant Shell said Wednesday that its refining margins surged 75 percent in the third quarter compared with the second, as the Middle East and Ukraine wars hit supplies.

Streaming giant Spotify announced Wednesday it is expanding access to its audiobook service to more than 180 markets, up from 22 currently, as the format continues to gain popularity.

France's Henri Kagan and Japan's Kenso Soai on Wednesday won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for solving the mystery of why only one form of certain molecules appears in nature, a discovery decisive for the manufacture of pharmaceuticals.

German industrial production rose to its highest level for a year and a half in August, according to data released Wednesday, but officials warned that the economy's recovery was still fragile.

Top US diplomat Marco Rubio was in Athens on Wednesday ahead of a "strategic dialogue" with the NATO member on regional and energy security, the State Department said.

Flooding in Thailand since mid-September has killed 60 people nationwide, the government said on Wednesday, with river water levels still rising in some regions.

Hundreds of workers at a Micron Technology plant in Taiwan have voted to strike, their union said Wednesday, after talks with the US memory chip giant over bonus reforms collapsed.

South Korean activists campaigning for workplace safety in the nation's booming semiconductor industry called on the government on Wednesday to recognise the cancer diagnoses of three former SK hynix employees as work-related illnesses.

India's central bank hiked interest rates Wedneday for the first time since 2023 as the Middle East conflict stokes inflation in Asia's third-largest economy and batters a weakened rupee.

With scrawny arms and bellies swollen by malnutrition, a dozen children waited for a meal at a World Food Programme centre in an arid area of southern Madagascar scarred by famine and bracing for the looming El Nino.

Hotel Blacklist has launched a new free online resource designed to help hotels and accommodation providers identify high-risk guests and prevent potential financial losses, property damage, fraud, and disruptive behaviour. The service, available at hotelblacklist.org, provides a shared guest-risk database that supports the hospitality industry’s existing “Do Not Rent” (DNR) practices.

Oil prices rose Wednesday and stocks fell amid fresh concerns about Middle East supplies following a warning that Iran appeared to be stepping up attacks in the Strait of Hormuz.

Pacific leaders pressed wealthy nations for more funds to help them "survive" climate change Wednesday at a gathering aimed at drawing the world's attention to life on the frontline of global warming.

Ahead of COP31 next month, Turkish NGOs hope the UN climate summit will offer a rare opportunity to be heard in a country where space for public protest has steadily narrowed and arrests can happen "any time".

Molecules that regulate sleep and appetite or methods for editing genes are some of the research fields commentators say could be contenders for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry announced Wednesday.

Africa will launch its own credit rating agency on Wednesday, aimed at countering what many see as unfair assessments by global institutions that make it more expensive for African nations to borrow money.

The United States, China and the European Union are taking different paths to govern artificial intelligence, as calls grow worldwide to rein in its most powerful systems.

Australia announced new funds aimed at protecting frontline communities and infrastructure in the Pacific from the impacts of climate change on Wednesday, at a summit aimed at drawing the world's attention to life on the frontline of global warming.

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