Police officers work at the scene after a knife attack, June 8, 2023 in Annecy, French Alps. (PHOTO / AP) PARIS – A man on Thursday stabbed people with a knife in a park in the city of Annecy, southeast France, injuring several people, including nursery children, French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin confirmed. While speaking […]
In this file photo, AU Trade and Industry Commissioner Albert Muchanga speaks during the opening ceremony of the 18th African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) forum in Abidjan on Aug 5, 2019. Muchanga said on June 8, 2023 that the continental body was on course with its plans to introduce a single African currency. (PHOTO […]
Migrants wait in line prior to board a boat at the port of the the island of Lampedusa, Italy, on June 8, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) BRUSSELS – European Union ministers agreed on Thursday on how to share out the responsibility for looking after migrants and refugees, after 12 hours of negotiations got Italy and […]
Ukrainian servicemen take part in a military training exercise not far from front line in Donetsk region on June 8, 2023. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said that foreign countries will not send their troops to Ukraine before the end of the conflict, the government-run Ukrinform news agency reported on the same day. (PHOTO / […]
The US Capitol is blanketed by a thick layer of smoke on June 8, 2023, in Washington. (PHOTO / AP) WASHINGTON – The shroud of polluted air emanating from Canadian wildfires pushed further down the Atlantic Seaboard on Thursday, blanketing Washington, DC, in an unhealthy haze and prompting many residents of the nation's capital to […]
The European flag (left) flies on April 18, 2023 at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France. (PHOTO / AP) Most Europeans want their countries to remain neutral in a conflict between the United States and China over China's Taiwan region while they also want to reduce the continent's military dependence on the US, according […]
A French police officer (left) and French elite mountain infantry force 'Chasseurs Alpins' stand guard near the lake in Annecy, central-eastern France on June 8, 2023, following a mass stabbing in the French Alpine town. (PHOTO / AFP) PARIS – A man on Thursday morning stabbed people with a knife in a park in the […]
Storage tanks hold treated water at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima prefecture, Japan, as seen on April 13, 2021. (PHOTO / KYODO NEWS VIA AP) VLADIVOSTOK — Russia has called on Japan to be more transparent regarding its plans to discharge radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the […]
German minister of the interior Nancy Faeser attends a meeting with the representatives of six European countries to fight against cocaine trafficking, in Antwerp on June 5, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) BRUSSELS – EU countries could reach an agreement on a migration deal on Thursday, but the proposed compromise needs to be improved, Germany's Interior […]
Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto speaks during a press conference in Helsinki, June 8, 2023. (PHOTO / AP) HELSINKI – Finland's Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto said on Thursday he will run for president in next year's election, hoping to succeed Sauli Niinisto who is stepping down after two terms. Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto is expected to step […]
This file photo shows Russia's President Vladimir Putin (right) shakes hands with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman during a meeting on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Osaka on June 29, 2019. (PHOTO / AFP) VLADIVOSTOK – Russian President Vladimir Putin and Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman Al […]
A Ukrainian tank fires in Chasiv Yar, Ukraine, on June 7, 2023. (PHOTO / AP) MOSCOW/UNITED NATIONS – A "Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group" blew up the Togliatti-Odessa pipeline in Kharkov region on Monday night, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Wednesday. The ministry in a statement called the explosion of the ammonia pipeline "a […]
A girl gets a shot of the CoronaVac vaccine at a vaccination center in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 15, 2022, on the first day of a COVID-19 vaccination campaign for children ages 3 and 4. (PHOTO / AP) STOCKHOLM – The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the European Medicines Agency […]
An aerial view shows New York City in a haze-filled sky from the Empire State Building observatory on June 7, 2023, in New York. (PHOTO / AP) NEW YORK – Schools across the US East Coast canceled outdoor activities, commercial airline traffic was slowed and millions of Americans were urged to stay indoors on Wednesday […]
Photo taken on September 14, 2020 shows the outside view of the United Nations headquarters in New York, the United States. (PHOTO / XINHUA) UNITED NATIONS – Representatives from various UN agencies in Ukraine were in Kherson on Wednesday to assess the impact of the destruction of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant dam and coordinate […]
This undated photo shows the national flags of the BRICS countries member – (from left) Brazil, India, Russia, China and South Africa. (PHOTO / AFP) NAIROBI – Ministers and senior officials from BRICS member states on Tuesday pledged enhanced partnership aimed at promoting sustainable urban development in the face of multiple challenges including pollution and […]
A herd of sheep take a rest under solar panels of the Francisco Pizarro photovoltaic power plant in Caceres, Spain, on March 24, 2023. (PHOTO / XINHUA) The world is not on track to meet the United Nations' sustainable development goals for energy by the target year of 2030, new research from the International Energy […]
Britain's Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, waves as he arrives to the Royal Courts of Justice, Britain's High Court, in central London on June 7, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) LONDON — Prince Harry said phone-hacking was carried out on an industrial scale across the British press and he would feel a sense of injustice if […]
Pope Francis ponders during the weekly general audience on June 7, 2023 at St Peter's square in the Vatican. (PHOTO / AFP) ROME – Pope Francis was admitted to a Rome hospital on Wednesday for another abdominal operation under general anaesthesia, this time to repair a hernia most likely caused by scars from surgery in […]
A journalist captures images of the Christophe de Margerie icebreaking liquefied natural gas carrier at the Port of Sabetta in the Autonomous Okrug of Yamlo-Nenets, March 30, 2017. (PHOTO / XINHUA) VLADIVOSTOK – Russia has unveiled plans to invest 2 trillion rubles (about $24.58 billion) in the development of its Northern Sea Route (NSR) over […]