Day: March 26, 2023

Women walk through shelters in Sebedow Internally displaced Person (IDP) camp, one of more than 500 that surround Baidoa hosting 900,000 displaced people, in Baidoa, Somalia, on November 9, 2022. (PHOTO / AFP) ADDIS ABABA – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) on Friday warned that "unprecedented" levels of acute food insecurity have persisted […]

This picture taken near the village of Los Peiros, on March 25, 2023, shows forest area burnt by a wildfire that began on March 23, 2023 near Villanueva de Viver, some 90 kilometres (55 miles) north of Valencia. (PHOTO / AFP) MADRID – A recent wildfire in eastern Spain has burnt around 4,000 hectares of […]

This picture taken near the village of Los Peiros, on March 25, 2023, shows forest area burnt by a wildfire that began on March 23, 2023 near Villanueva de Viver, some 90 kilometres (55 miles) north of Valencia. (PHOTO / AFP) MADRID – A recent wildfire in eastern Spain has burnt around 4,000 hectares of […]

Migrants from sub-Saharan Africa are rescued by the Tunisian National Guard off their makeshift boats which were used to make their way to the Italian coast, about 50 nautical miles in the Mediterranean sea off the coast of the central Tunisian city of Sfax on October 4, 2022. (PHOTO / AFP) TUNIS – At least […]

A projection marking Earth Hour is set up in front of Germany's landmark Brandenburg Gate shortly before Earth Hour in Berlin, Germany, March 25, 2023. (PHOTO / AP) GENEVA – As lights around the world turned off at 8:30 pm local time on Saturday to mark Earth Hour 2023, the World Wide Fund for Nature […]

Aerial view of a destroyed neighborhood in Rolling Fork, Mississippi, after a tornado touched down in the area March 25, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) SILVER CITY, Mississippi – Rescuers combed through rubble on Saturday after a powerful storm tore across Mississippi overnight, killing at least 25 people there and another in Alabama, leveling hundreds of […]

Dmitry Medvedev, deputy head of Russia's Security Council, speaks during an interview with Russian media at a residence outside Moscow, Russia, March 23, 2023. (PHOTO /POOL VIA REUTERS) VLADIVOSTOK, Russia – Russian Security Council's Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev on Friday condemned the British plan to provide depleted uranium rounds for Ukraine, warning that the use […]

n this file photo, international flags flutter outside of the UN headquarters during the opening of the International Atomic Energy Agency Board of Governors meeting at the IAEA headquarters in Vienna, Austria on Sept 10, 2018. (JOE KLAMAR / AFP) VIENNA – Most of the roughly 2.5 tonnes of natural uranium ore concentrate (UOC) recently […]