Wildfire wreckage is seen in Lahaina, Hawaii, Aug 9, 2023. (PHOTO VIA AP) MAALAEA, Hawaii – The death toll from the Maui wildfires rose to 67 on Friday as search teams combed through the smoldering ruins of Lahaina, and Hawaiian officials sought to determine how the inferno spread so rapidly through the historic resort town […]
Hunter Biden, son of US President Joe Biden, departs federal court after a plea hearing on two misdemeanor charges of willfully failing to pay income taxes in Wilmington, Delaware, US, July 26, 2023. (PHOTO / REUTERS) WASHINGTON – US President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden may be headed for a criminal trial, US Special Counsel […]
Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the head of Poland's ruling Law and Justice party, speaks to a party convention in Warsaw, Poland, on May 14, 2023. (PHOTO / AP) WARSAW – Poles will vote on whether they support the privatization of state companies, Poland's ruling party leader said on Friday, as he announced the first question in a […]
Police officers block off an area around a damaged office block of the Moscow International Business Center (Moskva City) following a reported drone attack in Moscow on Aug 1, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) MOSCOW — Russia's air defense system has downed a drone that attempted to fly over Moscow, the Russian Defense Ministry said Friday. […]
Former South African President Jacob Zuma appears at the Pietermaritzburg High Court in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, on April 17, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) JOHANNESBURG — South Africa's former president Jacob Zuma appeared at the Estcourt correctional facility on Friday morning and was released under a remission process, a senior prisons official said. The announcement comes […]
A security officer stands next to the ship Navi-Star which sits full of grain as it waits to sail from the Odesa Sea Port, in Odesa, Ukraine, on July 29, 2022. (PHOTO / FILE / AP) KYIV – The Ukrainian Naval Forces said on Thursday it has designated temporary corridors for merchant vessels sailing from […]
Move may hit industry and undermine development goals, top executives say Industry leaders in the United States are expressing concerns that restricting the sale of semiconductors to China could be detrimental to the US. During a recent meeting in Washington with the administration of US President Joe Biden, the CEOs of the largest US chipmakers […]
A general view of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia Sept 30, 2014. (PHOTO / REUTERS) WASHINGTON – The number of people who died by suicide in the United States hit an estimated record 49,000 in 2022, a 2.6 percent increase over the previous year, government data showed on […]
A handout picture released on Aug 10, 2023 by the Ecuadorian Police shows six Colombian men arrested in connection with the assassination of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio in Quito. (HANDOUT / ECUADORIAN POLICE / AFP) QUITO – Six suspects arrested in connection with the assassination of Ecuadorian presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio and another suspect who […]
A Boeing CH-47 Chinook undertakes its flying display at the ILA Berlin Air Show in Schoenefeld, Germany, on June 23, 2022. (PHOTO / MESSE BERLIN GMBH) BERLIN – Germany will own NATO's second largest helicopter fleet with the 60 Chinooks it announced it was buying last month, German Air Force Chief Ingo Gerhartz was quoted […]
ECOWAS leaders attend an extraordinary summit in Abuja, Nigeria, on Aug 10, 2023. (PHOTO / XINHUA) ABUJA – The 15-member Economic Community of West African States on Thursday said it has resolved to activate its standby force in response to the recent coup in Niger while underscoring its continued commitment to restore constitutional order in […]
In this photo taken from video and released by Roscosmos State Space Corporation, the Soyuz-2.1b rocket with the moon lander Luna-25 automatic station takes off from a launch pad at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Russia's Far East, Aug 11, 2023. (PHOTO / AP) MOSCOW – Russia launched its first moon-landing spacecraft in 47 years […]
Wildfire wreckage is seen in Lahaina, Hawaii, Aug 9, 2023. (PHOTO VIA AP) KAHULUI, Hawaii – The death toll from Maui's wildfires rose to 53 on Thursday as the fast-moving conflagration that turned the resort town of Lahaina into smoldering ruins was 80 percent contained, officials said. The island that forms part of the US […]
The hall of historic Waiola Church in Lahaina and nearby Lahaina Hongwanji Mission are engulfed in flames along Wainee Street on Aug 8, 2023, in Lahaina, Hawaii. (PHOTO / THE MAUI NEWS VIA AP) KAHULUI, Hawaii – At least 36 people have died after wildfires, fanned by winds from a faraway hurricane, devastated much of […]
This photo shows the Amazon Summit at the Hangar Convention Centre in Belem, Para State, Brazil, on Aug 9, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) BELEM, Brazil – A dozen rainforest countries formed a pact on Wednesday at a summit in Brazil to demand developed countries pay to help poorer nations combat climate change and preserve biodiversity. […]
This illustration photograph taken on April 11, 2023, shows the US instant messaging software WhatsApp's logo on a smartphone screen in Moscow. (PHOTO / AFP) LONDON — British technology minister Michelle Donelan defended plans to require messaging apps to provide access to encrypted private messages when needed to protect children from abuse, which major platforms […]
Stranded trucks with goods are seen at the border between Nigeria and Niger in Jibia, Nigeria, Aug 7, 2023. (PHOTO / AP) NIAMEY/ABUJA – Niger's junta named a new government overnight, forcing its agenda before a summit on Thursday of regional leaders who have demanded that they end their military takeover. West African heads of […]
An Extinction Rebellion protestor is arrested by police at City Airport in London, Britain, on Oct 10, 2019. (PHOTO / XINHUA) BERLIN – Simon Lachner had plans to glue himself to a German city thoroughfare in June to call public attention to climate change. Instead, he ended up in police custody before he'd even left […]
US President Joe Biden walks on the South Lawn at the White House in Washington, DC, the United States, May 10, 2023. (PHOTO / XINHUA) The executive order that US President Joe Biden signed on Wednesday to restrict critical technology investments in China will "seriously" undermine the interests of businesses and investors of both countries […]
This grab from UGC video footage posted on social media on Aug 8, 2023 shows a member of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) firing an automatic machine gun turret mounted on the back of a truck (technical) towards positions held by the Rapid Support Forces in central Omdurman, Sundan. (UGC IMAGE / AFP) UNITED NATIONS […]