The flags of United Nations member states (L to R) Lithuania, Liechtenstein, Libya, Liberia, Lesotho, Lebanon, Latvia, Laos, Kyrgyzstan, Kuwait, Kiribati, Kenya, Kazakhstan, Jordan, Japan, Jamaica, Italy, Israel, Ireland, Iraq, Iran, Indonesia, India, and others fly in alphabetical order during the COP27 climate conference at the Sharm el-Sheikh International Convention Centre, in Egypt's Red Sea […]
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni speaks during the Uganda-Turkey Investment summit at the Munyonyo Speke Resort in Kampala, Uganda, on May 12, 2022. (BADRU KATUMBA / AFP) KAMPALA – Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has said East African nations working with the Congolese government will bring order in war-torn eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Museveni, according […]
Asl Tia, a cargo vessel carrying Ukrainian grain, sails on Bosphorus to Marmara sea, in Istanbul, on Nov 2, 2022. (OZAN KOSE / AFP) GENEVA / KIEV / ISTANBUL / MOSCOW – A breakthrough has been made on hundreds of thousands of tons of Russian-made fertilizer blocked in European ports, which is vital to avoid a […]
Former US president Donald Trump speaks at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, Nov 18, 2022. (REBECCA BLACKWELL / AP) WASHINGTON – US Attorney General Merrick Garland on Friday named Jack Smith, a war crimes prosecutor, to serve as special counsel to oversee Justice Department investigations related to Donald Trump including the former president's handling of […]
Egyptian Foreign Minister and Egypt's COP27 President Sameh Shoukry attends an informal stocktaking session during the COP27 climate summit, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, Nov 18, 2022. (MOHAMED ABD EL GHANY / REUTERS) SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt – Negotiators were poised to make a final push for a deal at the COP27 climate talks in Egypt on […]
Delegates attend the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) during a vote on shark protection at the Panama City Convention Center on Nov 17, 2022. (LUIS ACOSTA / AFP) PANAMA CITY – A global convention on the trade of endangered species on Thursday backed a Panama-led proposal to expand the regulation of the […]
European Union flags fly outside the European Commission building in Brussel on June 16, 2022. (KENZO TRIBOUILLARD / AFP) AMSTERDAM – EU home affairs ministers will hold an extraordinary meeting to discuss current problems with migration on Nov 25, the Czech EU Presidency said on Thursday. "Ministers will address the current situation in all migratory […]
Syringes with children's doses of Comirnaty, the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19 are seen at a practice of a children's doctor in Bonn, Germany, Dec 15, 2021. (WOLFGANG RATTAY / REUTERS) FRANKFURT / MOSCOW / LONDON – Germany's vaccine advisory panel on Thursday recommended that Pfizer-BioNTech's, COVID-19 vaccine for children from six months to four years […]
Lawmakers stand and applaud as US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California, pauses as she speaks on the House floor at the Capitol in Washington, Nov 17, 2022. (CAROLYN KASTER / AP) WASHINGTON – Nancy Pelosi, the trailblazing Democrat who as the first woman US House of Representatives speaker shepherded landmark legislation and led two […]
In this file photo taken on Aug 1, 2014, Australian and Dutch investigators examine a piece of the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 plane, near the village of Hrabove, Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine. (DMITRY LOVETSKY / AP) Russia's foreign ministry said on Thursday it would "examine" the opinion of a Dutch court which said that […]
Participants arrive at the Sharm el-Sheikh International Convention Centre, during the COP27 climate conference in Egypt's Red Sea resort city of the same name, on Nov17, 2022. (MOHAMMED ABED / AFP) SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt – The first draft of a deal being hashed out at the COP27 climate summit in Egypt would keep a target […]
Tesla, Inc electric vehicles charge at supercharger location in Hawthorne, California, on Aug 9, 2022. (PATRICK T. FALLON / AFP) NUSA DUA, Indonesia – Electric vehicles (EVs) shuttled G20 delegations and security forces across the southern tip of Bali this week in a symbolic show of Indonesia's ambitious energy transition plans. But virtually none of […]
This handout picture taken and released by the Turkish Defense Ministry press office on Aug 3, 2022 shows an inspection delegation member inspecting the Sierra Leone-flagged cargo ship Razoni carrying 26,000 tonnes of corn from Ukraine, off the coast of north-west Istanbul. (TURKISH DEFENSE MINISTRY / AFP) The United Nations Secretary General said on Thursday […]
Italian Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi attends a debate at the Senate ahead of a confidence vote for the government, in Rome, Oct 26, 2022. (ANDREW MEDICHINI / AP) ROME – Italy said on Wednesday it regretted tensions with Paris over migrants, which soared last week after a charity ship it turned away docked in southern […]
This Sept 27, 2004 file photo shows French priest Jean-Pierre Grallet. (CHRISTIAN HARTMANN / AFP) PARIS – A retired French archbishop is under investigation from judicial and church authorities for what he called "an inappropriate gesture" towards an adult young woman at the end of the 1980s. Monseigneur Jean-Pierre Grallet, 81, the retired former archbishop […]
House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) speaks to reporters after McCarthy was nominated by fellow Republicans to be their leader or the Speaker of the House if they take control in the next Congress, following House Republican leadership elections at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., November 15, 2022. (Michael A. McCoy / REUTERS) WASHINGTON […]
A man is tested for COVID-19 at a private health center in Harare, Zimbabwe, Feb 3, 2022. (TSVANGIRAYI MUKWAZHI / AP) HARARE / MOSCOW / OTTAWA – Zimbabwe's COVID-19 response chief coordinator, Agnes Mahomva, has warned that the country is not yet out of danger of a resurgence of the pandemic, amid concerns that people […]
This undated composite handout image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) released by NASA and STScl, shows the Protostar within the dark cloud L1527 with ejections from the star above and below appear orange and blue in infrared view. (HANDOUT / ESA, NASA, CSA, STSCI / AFP) LOS ANGELES – NASA's James […]
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg gestures as he addresses media after a meeting of the North Atlantic Council, following yesterday's explosion in Eastern Poland close to the border with Ukraine, at the Nato headquarters in Brussels on Nov 16, 2022. (JOHN THYS / AFP) BRUSSELS/WARSAW/MOSCOW – Jens Stoltenberg, secretary-general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, said […]
A registered nurse inoculates a man with a COVID-19 vaccine at a clinic set up in the parking lot of CalOptima in Orange, California, Aug 28, 2021. (JAE C HONG / AP) LOS ANGELES / MOSCOW / HARARE – New Omicron subvariants BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 accounted for nearly half of new COVID-19 cases in the […]
