This March 30, 2021 photo shows an exterior view of the World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. (PHOTO / XINHUA) LONDON – Drugs that combat obesity could for the first time be included on the World Health Organization's "essential medicines list," used to guide government purchasing decisions in low- and middle-income countries, the UN […]
In this file photo dated Sept 22, 2021, Fraidy Reiss, child marriage survivor and founder of "Unchained at Last" shows a tattoo of a broken chain on her wrist in Boston, Massachusetts. (PHOTO / AFP) BERLIN — Germany's Constitutional Court ruled on Wednesday that a law declaring marriages entered into by children under the age […]
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov (center) attends the 52nd UN Human Rights Council session, in Geneva, on March 2, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) Russia said on Wednesday that Washington's decision to stop sharing some data on its nuclear forces under the New START arms control treaty will not prompt Moscow to review its own […]
Protesters hold unions' flags and banners during a demonstration after the government pushed a pensions reform through parliament without a vote, in Limoges, on March 28, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) PARIS / NANTES, France – Black-clad groups set fire to garbage cans and threw projectiles at police in Paris, who charged at them and threw […]
Russia's President Vladimir Putin (right) and Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu (left) attend command-and-staff training exercise s outside Moscow, on May 7, 2014. Russia's Strategic Missile Forces have launched a large-scale command-and-staff exercise that will involve the Yars intercontinental ballistic missile system, the Russian Defense Ministry said on March 29, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) VLADIVOSTOK, Russia […]
Britain's Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex leaves the Royal Courts of Justice, Britain's High Court, in central London on March 28, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) LONDON – Britain's Prince Harry has accused Buckingham Palace in court documents of withholding information from him about phone-hacking and said he was exposing the alleged wrongdoing by tabloid "criminals" […]
Humza Yousaf speaks to the media after being voted the new First Minister at the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh, Scotland, March 28, 2023. (PHOTO / PA VIA AP) LONDON – Humza Yousaf was officially elected as Scotland's sixth First Minister on Tuesday, with a majority of 71 out of 128 votes. The 37-year-old is Scotland's […]
A seller serves a customer in a fruit and vegetable stall at the local market in the district of Trionfale, in Rome, on April 16, 2020. (PHOTO / AFP) ROME – Italy's government on Tuesday approved a bill banning the use of laboratory-produced food and animal feed as it aims to safeguard the country's agri-food […]
Former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn speaks at a rally in London on Feb 11, 2023, during a day of activities in support of Julian Assange. (PHOTO / AFP) LONDON – Britain's main opposition Labour Party blocked its former leader Jeremy Corbyn on Tuesday from standing as one of its candidates at the next parliamentary […]
A health worker prepares a dose of Pfizer COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine at a health center in Jakarta on Feb 1, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) The World Health Organization has tailored its COVID-19 vaccination recommendations for a new phase of the pandemic, suggesting that healthy children and adolescents may not necessarily need a shot but older, […]
Britain's King Charles III waves as he arrives for a visit to the new European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in London, March 23, 2023. (PHOTO / POOL / AP) BERLIN – King Charles travels to Germany on Wednesday in his first state visit abroad since becoming British monarch, as part of efforts to […]
This photo taken on Jan 19, 2023 shows the US Capitol building in Washington, DC, the United States. Washington is using the US-hosted Summit for Democracy as an ideological platform to exert control over other states and ultimately divide the world, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on March 28, 2023. (PHOTO / XINHUA) MOSCOW – Washington […]
Co-leader of Germany's Green Party Ricarda Lang (center) addresses journalists flanked by German Minister for Finance Christian Lindner (left) and Social Democratic Party (SPD) co-leader Lars Klingbei (right) at the Reichstag in Berlin following coalition top-level consultations on March 28, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) BERLIN – Germany's ruling coalition government on Tuesday presented the results […]
A customer walks past empty shelves at a Sainsbury supermarket, in east London, on Feb 24, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) LONDON – Britons already reeling from the biggest rise in food prices since 1977 may have to get used to shortages of fresh vegetables as soaring costs and unpredictable weather hit domestic production. British shoppers […]
Armed police officers speak to passing drivers near the scene of a shooting of an off duty policeman at the Killyclogher Road sports complex in the northern Irish town of Omagh on February 23, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) LONDON – Britain's MI5 intelligence agency has increased the threat level in Northern Ireland from domestic terrorism […]
Greece's Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis arrives for a EU Summit, at the EU headquarters in Brussels, on March 23, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) ATHENS – Greece will hold a parliamentary election on May 21, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Tuesday. The May 21 poll will take place under a newly-introduced system of proportional representation, […]
Migrants prepare to get on board the Ocean Viking ship sailing in the international waters off Libya in the Mediterranean Sea, after being rescued by European maritime-humanitarian organization "SOS Mediterranee" on Oct 25, 2022. (PHOTO / AFP) GENEVA – European Union backing for Libyan authorities who stop and detain migrants means the bloc has "aided […]
Protesters run from tear gas during a demonstration as part of a national day of strikes and protests, a week after the French government pushed a pensions reform through parliament without a vote, in Toulouse, southern France, on March 23, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) PARIS – France faces a new nationwide day of strikes and […]
Firefighters and Mexican soldiers rescue migrants from an immigration station in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua state on March 27, 2023, where at least 39 people were killed and dozens injured after a fire at the immigration station. (PHOTO / AFP) CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico – At least 39 migrants died after a fire broke out late on […]
This file photo dated Dec 3, 2021 shows Georgetown University in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, DC. (PHOTO / AFP) If the US Supreme Court bans the consideration of race in college admissions, enrollment of minority groups at selective colleges will likely stall or decline – even if the schools give more weight to factors such as […]
