French President Emmanuel Macron (left) and Algeria's President Abdelmadjid Tebboune (right) attend a signing ceremony in the pavilion of honour at Algiers airport, in Algiers, on Aug 27, 2022. (PHOTO / AFP) ALGIERS – Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune on Friday told his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron during a phone conversation that the Algerian ambassador to […]
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak (left rear) and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen (right rear) attend a joint press conference in Windsor, Britain, on Feb 27, 2023. (PHOTO / HANDOUT VIA XINHUA) LONDON – A new deal aimed at easing post-Brexit trade tensions in Northern Ireland was formally adopted on Friday by the […]
This photo grabbed from an aerial video made available by the Italian Coast Guards on March 11, 2023 shows a boat overloaded with migrants during a Coast Guards rescue operation on March 10, 2023 off the coast of Calabria, southern Italy. (HANDOUT / GUARDIA COSTIERA / AFP) MILAN – Europe risks seeing "tens, maybe hundreds […]
A photo shows a panel reading "Macron, get out or else ransacking" at a barricade and fires as protesters blck the access to the Frontignan oil depot a week after the government pushed a pensions reform through parliament without a vote, using the article 49.3 of the constitution, in Frontignan, southern France, on March 24, […]
This file aerial picture taken on Sept 13, 2022 at Glacier 3000 resort above Les Diablerets in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland shows the Tsanfleuron pass free of the ice that covered it for at least 2,000 years next to blankets covering snow from the last winter season to prevent it from melting. (PHOTO / […]
Locals walk past a truck carrying militarized police members during a police operation at the Salgueiro Complex, in Sao Goncalo, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, on March 23, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) RIO DE JANEIRO – At least 13 people were killed in clashes with police just outside Brazil's seaside city of Rio de Janeiro […]
In this file photo, firefighter helicopter drops water to put out a wildfire in the Baixa Limia – Serra do Xures Natural Park near the village of Lobeira, Ourense province, northwestern Spain, on Aug 25, 2022. A forest fire raged in eastern Spain on March 23, 2023, forcing hundreds of people to evacuate from nearby […]
Finnish President Sauli Niinisto attends a meeting to sign Finland's national NATO legislation in Helsinki, Finland, on March 23, 2023. (PHOTO / FINNISH GOVERNMENT / HANDOUT VIA REUTERS) HELSINKI – Finland's President Sauli Niinisto on Thursday signed into law his country's accession to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), which was ratified by parliament on […]
A car makes its way past a billboard calling on people to vote "yes" in the 26 March 2023 "Berlin 2030 Climate Neutral" referendum, in Berlin on March 20, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) BRUSSELS – Germany and the European Union are on course to resolve a dispute over the bloc's planned 2035 phaseout of CO2-emitting […]
A protester kicks a tear gas canister in front of the Opera at the end of a rally in Paris, on march 23, 2023. (PHOTO / AP) PARIS – Police fired tear gas and fought with violent black-clad anarchists in Paris and across France on Thursday as hundreds of thousands of protesters marched against President Emmanuel […]
A resident fetches water from a well at a residential area on the occasion of World Water Day in Quezon City, the Philippines, March 22, 2023. (PHOTO / XINHUA) UNITED NATIONS – Two-thirds of the world's population will continue to live in water insecurity well beyond 2030 if radical measures are not taken, UN water […]
Children look at an ice sculpture during the 2023 Bloor-Yorkville Icefest in Toronto, Canada, Feb 18, 2023. (PHOTO / XINHUA) OTTAWA – Canada's population increased by more than a million people for the first time in history in 2022, almost entirely due to a surge in immigrants and temporary residents, Statistics Canada said on Wednesday. Total population […]
Protesters march during a protest in Paris on March 22, 2023. Labor unions said The ninth nationwide day of action planned for March 23, 2023 would draw huge crowds against what they described as French President Emmanuel Macron's "scorn" and "lies." (PHOTO / AP) PARIS – Hundreds of thousands of people were set to strike […]
Boris Johnson is on his way to a hearing at Parliament in London, March 22, 2023. (PHOTO / AP) LONDON – A combative Boris Johnson fought for his political career on Wednesday, as the former British prime minister said "hand on heart" he did not lie to parliament over COVID-19 lockdown parties at a hearing […]
A fallen tree and debris are seen after a possible tornado damaged several buildings March 22, 2023 in Montebello, Calif. (PHOTO / AP) LOS ANGELES – The latest bout of harsh, wintry weather to lash California drifted into neighboring states of the Desert Southwest on Wednesday as authorities reported at least five storm-related deaths in […]
A gas leak is seen at the Nord Stream 2 pipeline on Sept 27 from a Danish F-16 jet off the Baltic island of Bornholm, south of Dueodde. (PHOTO / AFP) China hopes some Western member states of the United Nations Security Council will renounce their "selfish geopolitical interests" and play a constructive role in […]
Putin warns against UK plans to send ammunition with depleted uranium Ukrainian soldiers ride atop a tank on the frontline in Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Mar 22, 2023. (PHOTO / AP) The United States announced on Tuesday that it will speed up delivery of battle tanks to Ukraine, while the United Kingdom will send tanks […]
Men extract water from a well at the village of El Gel, 8 kilometres from the town of K'elafo, Ethiopia, on Jan 12, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) UNITED NATIONS – The United Nations used its first conference on water security in almost half a century on Wednesday to exhort governments to better manage one of […]
Sweden's Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson speaks during a news conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (not in image) after a meeting at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, March 15, 2023. (PHOTO / AP) STOCKHOLM – Sweden's lawmakers overwhelmingly voted on Wednesday in favor of the country joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Sweden and […]
A handout photograph released by the UK Parliament shows Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak standing at the despatch box and speaking during the weekly session of Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) at the House of Commons, in London, on March 22, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) LONDON – British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak won the backing of […]
