A woman holds a malnourished child at the nutrition unit of the Kelafo Health Center in the town of Kelafo, 120 kilometers from the city of Gode, Ethiopia, on April 7, 2022. (EDUARDO SOTERAS / AFP) ADDIS ABABA – The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) on Saturday called the donor community for funding to provide […]
Sweden's Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson arrives for an EU summit in Brussels, Oct 20, 2022. (GEERT VANDEN WIJNGAERT / AP) HELSINKI – Ways to further enhance cooperation between Finland and Sweden, especially on their path to membership of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), topped the agenda of talks here between the prime ministers of […]
Livestock are seen in a dried field due to drought in Kidemu sub-location in Kilifi County, Kenya, March 23, 2022. (PHOTO / XINHUA) UNITED NATIONS – Amid the worst drought in 40 years, Horn of Africa countries have been hit by outbreaks of cholera and acute watery diarrhea, while fighting in northern Ethiopia continues, a […]
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her husband Paul Pelosi arrive at the State Department for the Kennedy Center Honors State Department Dinner, Dec 7, 2019, in Washington. (AP PHOTO/KEVIN WOLF, FILE) WASHINGTON – US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband was "violently assaulted" by an individual who broke into his home in San Francisco, California, […]
A United States-bound passenger walks in Toronto Pearson Airport's Terminal 3, days before new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) testing protocols to enter the US come into effect, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada Dec 3, 2021. (CHRIS HELGREN / REUTERS) OTTAWA / MOSCOW – Canada confirmed 21,810 new COVID-19 cases for the week ending Oct 22, the Public […]
In this handout photo released by Roscosmos State Space Corporation on Oct 26, 2022, the Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket with the Progress MS-21 spacecraft blasts off at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Oct 26, 2022. (ROSCOSMOS STATE SPACE CORPORATION VIA AP) VLADIVOSTOK – Russia's Progress MS-21 cargo spacecraft successfully docked with the Russian […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at the plenary session of the 19th annual meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club outside Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Oct. 27, 2022. (Sergei Karpukhin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP) MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir Putin has said the historical period of boundless Western domination in world affairs is coming […]
This Nov 14, 2007 picture shows a view of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) headquarters in Vienna. The IAEA has praised China's efforts and progress in stepping up nuclear security and contributing to global governance of nuclear security. (JOE KLAMAR / AFP) UNITED NATIONS – Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency are on their […]
Doctors walk inside the Ebola isolation section of Mubende Regional Referral Hospital, in Mubende, Uganda, Sept 29, 2022. In this remote Ugandan community facing its first Ebola outbreak, testing trouble has added to the challenges with symptoms of the Sudan strain of Ebola now circulating being similar to malaria. (HAJARAH NALWADDA / AP) KAMPALA – […]
The Finnish-Russian Imatra border crossing is pictured in Imatra, south-eastern Finland, on May 13, 2022. (ALESSANDRO RAMPAZZO / AFP) HELSINKI – The government of Finland has earmarked six million euros ($5.98 million) for the construction of a three-km pilot section of a fence on the country's border with Russia, it said in a press release […]
The Panama-flagged Navi Star carrying 33,000 tonnes of grain, arrives at the Foynes Port in County Limerick, Ireland, on Aug 20, 2022 after leaving southern Ukraine's main port of Odessa two weeks ago. (LIAM BURKE / PRESS 22 / AFP) KIEV – Ukraine's Black Sea ports have shipped 9 million tons of foodstuffs under a […]
A medical worker holds a sign as Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) (out of frame) delivers a press conference after receiving a COVID-19 booster shot at AltaMed Medical clinic in Los Angeles, California, on Oct 6, 2022. (RINGO CHIU / AFP) LOS ANGELES / WASHINGTON / MOSCOW – Health experts are concerned emerging Omicron subvariants would […]
A thermoelectric power station works near the frozen Moskva river in central Moscow, Russia on March 11, 2021. (YURI KADOBNOV / AFP) PARIS – Today's energy crisis is causing profound and long-lasting changes that have the potential to hasten the transition to a more sustainable and secure energy system, according to World Energy Outlook 2022 […]
Smoke comes out of a steam pipe across from Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City Oct 24, 2022. (TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP) NEW YORK – Climate activists from multiple non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are implementing week-long protests against climate change and inequality ahead of the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Sandy. Activists briefly shut […]
North Macedonia's Prime Minister Dimitar Kovacevski (right) shakes hand with President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen after they delivered a press conference in Skopje, on Oct 26, 2022. (ROBERT ATANASOVSKI / AFP) SKOPJE – The European Union (EU) will provide 500 million euros ($504 million) in grants for the Western Balkan countries […]
Photo taken on Oct 26, 2022 shows a view of a UN Security Council meeting on the situation in the Great Lakes region at the UN headquarters in New York. (ESKINDER DEBEBE / UN PHOTO via XINHUA) UNITED NATIONS – It is only through coordinated, coherent and harmonious action that the Great Lakes nations can […]
Medical workers treat patients in the COVID-19 ward at the US Department of Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare system campus and medical center in West Roxbury, Massachusetts on Jan 11, 2022. (JOSEPH PREZIOSO / AFP) NEW YORK / MOSCOW – The United States could very well face what some doctors have dubbed a "tripledemic" this winter, […]
People walk amid a traffic jam during a public transport strike for the high price of oil derivates, in the southern outskirts of Tegucigalpa, on April 7, 2022. (ORLANDO SIERRA / AFP) BUENOS AIRES – Foreign ministers and other top officials from Latin America and the Caribbean on Wednesday agreed on the urgent need to […]
In this screenshot taken in Paris on Oct 26, 2022 French President Emmanuel Macron (right) speaks during the TV show "L'evenement", which is airing on the national television France 2. (LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP) PARIS – French President Emmanuel Macron pledged on Wednesday to "never leave the French without a solution" in the face of […]
Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic poses for a photograph during an interview with Reuters in Belgrade, Serbia, Jan 11, 2022. (ZORANA JEVTIC / REUTERS) BELGRADE – The Serbian parliament elected the new government led by Prime Minister Ana Brnabic here on Wednesday. Brnabic vowed that Serbia will continue with its European integration process, while also […]
