UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks to reporters at the UN headquarters in New York, on Oct 17, 2022. (XIE E / XINHUA) UNITED NATIONS – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday called for urgent global action to reverse the negative trend in poverty eradication. "As we mark the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, […]
Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto arrives at the EU Informal Meeting of EU Foreign Ministers (Gymnich) in Prague, Czech Republic on Aug 30, 2022. (MICHAL CIZEK / AFP) BUDAPEST – Hungary was the only European Union member state not to back the proposal for the European Union to start a training mission for Ukrainian military […]
A shopper puts fruit in her basket in a supermarket in London, Aug 17, 2022. (FRANK AUGSTEIN / AP) LONDON – The United Kingdom government on Monday announced a reversal of the bulk of its September tax-cutting measures in yet another emergency action to ensure economic stability and provide confidence in its commitment to fiscal […]
Members of Doctors without borders NGO set up an Ebola treatment isolation unit at the Mubende regional referral hospital in Uganda on Sept 24, 2022. (BADRU KATUMBA / AFP) KAMPALA – Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has put the country's capital Kampala on a high Ebola response alert as the east African country grapples with the […]
The leader of Sweden's Moderate Party and newly elected Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson holds a press conference after the voting at the Swedish parliament Riksdagen in Stockholm, Sweden, on Oct 17, 2022. (JONATHAN NACKSTRAND / AFP) STOCKHOLM – Ulf Kristersson, leader of the Moderate Party, was on Monday voted by the parliament to be Sweden's […]
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres addresses the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York City on Sept 20, 2022. (TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP) UNITED NATIONS – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday called for efforts to renew the commitment to a better world for all in his […]
In this May 25, 2020 file photo, crewmen speak aboard the Iranian oil tanker Fortune during its arrival to El Palito refinery near Puerto Cabello, Venezuela. (ERNESTO VARGAS / AP) TEHRAN – Iranian Petroleum Minister Javad Owji said on Sunday that Iran has started refining its crude oil in Venezuela, SHANA news agency affiliated to […]
A votive candle and flowers are left for a teen who was fatally shot at a department store in the North Hollywood section of Los Angeles on Dec 25, 2021. (RICHARD VOGEL / AP) More and more US schools are confiscating guns from students and having to deal with calls falsely reporting school shootings. The […]
Britain's Prime Minister Liz Truss holds a press conference in the Downing Street Briefing Room in central London on Oct 14, 2022, following the sacking of the finance minister in response to a budget that sparked markets chaos. (DANIEL LEAL / POOL / AFP) PORTLAND, Oregon — US President Joe Biden on Saturday called embattled […]
This handout photograph posted on Oct 14, 2022 on the Telegram account of the governor of Russia's Belgorod region shows flames which are to come from a power station in Belgorod, Russia, following Ukrainian shelling on Oct 14, 2022. (STRINGER / TELEGRAM / VVGLADKOV / AFP) MOSCOW/KYIV – A "terrorist "attack on a Russian military […]
Captain Ibrahim Traore, Burkina Faso's new president, attends a ceremony in Ouagadougou, on Oct 15, 2022. (OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT / AFP) OUAGADOUGOU – Captain Ibrahim Traore, who led a coup to topple Lieutenant Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba on Sept 30, has been officially appointed to lead the transitional period of Burkina Faso, according to a […]
International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva speaks during the 2022 annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group, Oct 14, 2022, in Washington. (MANUEL BALCE CENETA / AP) WASHINGTON – There is a risk of geopolitical fragmentation, as geopolitics turn into geo-economics with negative impacts, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) […]
Deputy Federal Secretary of the League party Lorenzo Fontana reacts after being elected as the new speaker of the lower House of Parliament, in Rome, Italy, Oct 14, 2022. (Guglielmo Mangiapane / Reuters) ROME – Lorenzo Fontana, a two-time minister from a party likely to be a junior member of the next Italian government coalition, […]
People gather during a rally decrying rising gun violence while urging politicians to take action in Washington, D.C., the United States, June 11, 2022. (XIAO XIAO/XINHUA) NEW YORK – Each day, 28 US children and teens, the equivalent of a high school classroom, die from gun violence, making it the No. 1 killer of youth […]
A man receives a dose of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine at Babington Hospital in Belper on Dece 16, 2021 as the UK steps up the country's booster drive to fight a "tidal wave" of Omicron. (OLI SCARFF / AFP) LONDON / OTTAWA / MOSCOW – Long Covid is now estimated to affect 2 million people […]
In this July 8, 2019 photo, the then British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt listens to a question during a press conference with the Bishop of Truro Philip Mounstephen about the Bishop's final report into the Foreign Office's support for Persecuted Christians around the world, in London. (AP PHOTO/ALASTAIR GRANT, POOL, FILE) LONDON – Jeremy Hunt, […]
Vice-President Wang Qishan attends the sixth summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia in Astana, Kazakhstan, on Oct 13, 2022. (PHOTO / XINHUA) Vice-President Wang Qishan called for efforts to implement the Global Security Initiative to seek common, comprehensive, cooperative and sustainable security to safeguard peace and stability in Asia, […]
UN General Assembly should play active and constructive role, envoy says Ukrainian Ambassador to the United Nations Sergiy Kyslytsya scans the general assembly with his binoculars prior to a vote on the resolution over the Ukrainian crisis, at the UN Headquarters in New York, on Wednesday. (PHOTO / REUTERS) A Chinese ambassador to the United […]
In this file photo dated Sept 9, 2022, United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres speaks during a joint press conference with Pakistani Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari (not pictured) at the Foreign Ministry in Islamabad. (GHULAM RASOOL / AFP) UNITED NATIONS – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday called on the Group of 20 (G20) […]
A medical worker collects a swab from a woman for a COVID-19 test at a health center in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on March 16, 2022. (WANG TIANCONG / XINHUA) SAO PAULO / MOSCOW – As many as 4,500 health workers died in Brazil after contracting COVID-19 while working to save lives during the pandemic, […]
