High representative of the EU for foreign affairs and security policy, Josep Borrell, speaks to the media as he arrives for a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels on, July 18, 2022. (VIRGINIA MAYO / AP) BRUSSELS – The foreign ministers of the European Union member states on Monday agreed to grant Ukraine an […]
Handout photo released by the Ecuadorean Police of a police operation at the Bellavista prison in Santo Domingo de los Colorados, Ecuador, on May 11, 2022. (STAFF / AFP) QUITO – Thirteen prisoners were killed at a prison in the Ecuadorean city of on Monday, Ecuador's prison agency said, the latest incident of deadly jail […]
This file photo taken on June 11, 2021 shows the entrance of the European Medicines Agency headquarters in Amsterdam. (FRANCOIS WALSCHAERTS / AFP) FRANKFURT / HELSINKI / BRUSSELS / LA PAZ – The European Medicines Agency on Monday started reviewing a low-dose version of BioNTech and Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for use in children between the age of […]
This combination of file pictures shows, from Left, Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak in Manchester, northwest England, on Oct 5, 2021; Foreign Minister Liz Truss in Prague on May 27, 2022; a handout photo of Conservative MP for Saffron Walden, Kemi Badenoch, posing for an official portrait photograph in London; and Secretary of […]
A flag flies in front of the facade of Raytheon's Integrated Defense Systems facility on June 10, 2019, in Woburn, Massachusetts. (ELISE AMENDOLA / AP) WASHINGTON – The United States has successfully tested a Raytheon Technologies Corp air-breathing hypersonic weapon capable of speeds faster than five times the speed of sound, making it the third […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting of the Presidential Council for Strategic Development and National Projects via a video link at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence, outside Moscow, on July 18, 2022. (MIKHAIL KLIMENTYEV / SPUTNIK / AFP) MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday that it was impossible to cut Russia off […]
Estonia's Prime Minister Kaja Kallas addresses media representatives during a press conference at the NATO summit at the Ifema congress centre in Madrid, on June 30, 2022. (GABRIEL BOUYS / AFP) TALLINN – The members of Estonia's new government coalition of the Reform Party, the conservative Isamaa (Fatherland) Party and the Social Democratic Party (SDE) […]
This combination of pictures created on July 14, 2022 shows the five candidates running to replace Boris Johnson as Conservative leader and Britain's prime minister. From left: Britain's Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, former finance minister Rishi Sunak,Conservative MP Olukemi Badenoch, Conservative politician Tom Tugendhat, and International Development Secretary and Minister for Women and Equalities Penny […]
An image of former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon is shown on a screen during a full committee hearing on "the January 6th Investigation," on Capitol Hill on July 12, 2022, in Washington, DC. The House committee probing the 2021 assault on the US Capitol is examining connections between associates of former US President […]
Farmer Andriy Zubko checks wheat ripeness on a field in Donetsk region, Ukraine, June 21, 2022. (EFREM LUKATSKY / AP) MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan will discuss the export of Ukrainian grain at their meeting in Tehran on Tuesday, a Kremlin aide has told reporters. Russia, Ukraine, Turkey […]
Commuters walk under a message board warning people of disruption over extreme heat at Victoria Station in London on July 18, 2022. (NIKLAS HALLE'N / AFP) MADRID/LISBON – A heatwave sweeping southern Europe that has caused hundreds of deaths and huge wildfires in past weeks showed some signs of abating on Monday but continued to […]
File photo shows people toast with their beer mugs at the 'Taxisgarten' beer garden in Munich, Germany, May 15, 2021. (MATTHIAS SCHRADER / AP) BERLIN – A Munich brewpub has found a novel way to beat Europe's cooking oil shortages – letting customers pay for their beer with sunflower oil to ensure plentiful stocks for […]
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz delivers a speech during the inauguration event at German carmaker Volkswagen's (VW) first own battery cell factory "SalzGiga" in Salzgitter, central Germany, on July 7, 2022. (RONNY HARTMANN / AFP) BERLIN – The European Union can no longer afford to keep national vetoes when deciding on European Union foreign and security […]
Shoppers leave the Greenwood Park Mall on May 4, 2020, in Greenwood, where Indianapolis Metropolitan Police said several people were killed and others injured in a shooting on July 17, 2022. (DARRON CUMMINGS / AP PHOTO) WASHINGTON – A gunman killed three people when he opened fire in the food court of a shopping mall […]
This drone photo shows the site where the AN-12 cargo plane crashed, in Palaiochori village near the town of Kavala, in northern Greece on July 17, 2022. (GIANNIS PAPANIKOS / AP PHOTO) ATHENS – No traces of dangerous substances for public health have been found at the site of the plane crash in northern Greece, […]
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky gestures while addressing a press conference with Netherland's prime minister (not in the picture), following their talks in Kyiv on July 11, 2022. (SERGEI SUPINSKY / AFP) KYIV/MOSCOW – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on late Sunday that he had decided to dismiss Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova and head of the […]
A sign about COVID-19 test is displayed at a testing site as people are seen inside for testing in Morton Grove, Illinois on Jan 9, 2022. (NAM Y. HUH / AP) LOS ANGELES – More than half of the US population are now living in areas with high COVID-19 levels and people are recommended to […]
Tina Quintanilla-Taylor raises her and voice as she tries to ask a question of the Texas House investigative committee at a news conference after they released its full report on the shootings at Robb Elementary School on July 17, 2022, in Uvalde, Texas. (ERIC GAY / AP PHOTO) A Texas legislators' probe of the Uvalde […]
A firefighter tackles a forest fire around the village of Eiriz in Baiao, north of Portugal, on July 15, 2022. (PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA / AFP) JERTE, Spain – Authorities across southern Europe battled on Sunday to control huge wildfires in countries including Spain, Greece and France, with hundreds of deaths blamed on soaring temperatures […]
Ethiopian refugees who fled the fighting in the Tigray region transport jerrycans of water at Umm Rakuba camp in eastern Sudan's Gedaref State on Aug 11, 2021. (ASHRAF SHAZLY / AFP) KHARTOUM – Sudan decided on Sunday to open the Galabat crossing on the border with Ethiopia in an effort to build confidence and resolve […]
