Men extract water from a well at the village of El Gel, 8 kilometres from the town of K'elafo, Ethiopia, on Jan 12, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) ADDIS ABABA – Close to 1 million people are at high risk of cholera disease in the 10 affected districts of southeastern Ethiopia, according to the United Nations […]
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova gestures while Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's annual news conference in Moscow, Russia, Jan 18, 2023. (PHOTO / AP) MOSCOW – The United States, by its actions, has undermined the principles of implementing the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Wednesday. […]
In this photo taken on Jan 18, 2023, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen speaks during a debate on the conclusions of the latest European Council meeting, at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France. (PHOTO / AFP) BRUSSELS – The European Commission will present plans on Wednesday to try to ensure Europe can […]
In this file photo taken on Dec 31, 2020, traffic passes a billboard for Irish unification outside Newry, Northern Ireland near the border with Ireland. (PHOTO / AFP) LONDON – Britain and the European Union have struck a customs deal that could help end post-Brexit wrangling over Northern Ireland, The Times newspaper said on Tuesday, […]
This July 25, 2022, photo shows abortion-rights protestors march between the Indiana Statehouse and the Indiana State Library where US Vice President Kamala Harris was meeting with Indiana legislators to discuss reproductive rights in Indianapolis. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) on Wednesday called for countries in the Americas to reinforce protections for women […]
In this image from video provided by the New York State Attorney General, former President Donald Trump listens during an Aug 10, 2022, deposition, in New York. Trump's fundraising for his presidential bid gets off to a modest start. (PHOTO / AP) WASHINGTON – Donald Trump's bid for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024 got […]
In this photo taken on Jan 31, 2023, Colombian President Gustavo Petro (left) and Ecuadorean President Guillermo Lasso (right) shake hands during the XI Binational Cabinet in Tulcan, Ecuador. (PHOTO / AFP) QUITO — Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso met Tuesday with his Colombian counterpart Gustavo Petro in the northern Ecuadorian city of Tulcan, with the […]
Cargo ship Super Bayern (center), carrying Ukrainian grain, sails at the entrance of Bosphorus, in the Black Sea off the coast off Kumkoy, north of Istanbul, on Nov 2, 2022. (PHOTO / AFP) KIEV / MOSCOW – Ukraine's Black Sea ports have shipped 19 million tons of foodstuffs since August under a key deal on […]
The number of students from the European Union studying in the United Kingdom has fallen by half since Brexit, newly published figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency, or HESA, have revealed. The data coincides with the third anniversary of the UK finally leaving the 27-member bloc at the start of 2020, four years after […]
A bartender works at a pub in Cambridge on Jan 24. British consumers are battling an escalating cost-of-living crisis. (PHOTO / REUTERS) LONDON — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Monday defended Brexit, insisting that leaving the European Union had brought significant achievements and offered a "huge opportunity", as the International Monetary Fund slashed the […]
Before release of draft plan, experts warn against zero-sum mentality The European Commission is to unveil the industrial plan underpinning its Green Deal on Wednesday, but experts warn against a zero-sum mentality in a race that might harm global efforts to counter climate change. A draft document of "A Green Deal Industrial Plan for the […]
Prices have risen on almost 1,000 drugs in the United States in the first three weeks of January, the most increases in January since at least 2011, according to a nonprofit organization that tracks drug prices. The price increases on 985 drugs ranged from 1 to 26 percent, with median increases of 5 percent, data […]
This image from NASA released on Jan 25 shows a formation on Mars that resembles a bear. (PHOTO / AFP) LOS ANGELES — Move over, Yogi and Paddington. There is a new bear in town. Or on Mars, anyway. The beaming face of a cute Teddy bear appears to have been carved into the surface […]
In this file photo dated Nov 27, 2020, a Sudanese girl from an Arab tribe nearby pours water into gallons, at Umm Rakouba refugee camp in Qadarif, eastern Sudan.The United Nations High Commission for Refugees and 41 global and national parterners call for raising $556 million to help refugees living in Sudan. (PHOTO / AP) […]
People walk at a plaza in the Medina of Tunis, Tunisia, on Jan 5, 2023. (PHOTO / XINHUA) TUNIS – Tunisian President Kais Saied decided on Tuesday to extend the state of emergency imposed across the country until the end of 2023. "The state of emergency in the entire territory will be extended from Tuesday […]
In this photo taken on Jan 31, 2023, protesters clash with police on the Place Vauban in Paris during a rally on a second day of nationwide strikes and protests over the government's proposed pension reform. (PHOTO / AFP) PARIS — Huge crowds marched across France on Tuesday to say "non" to President Emmanuel Macron's […]
A handout picture provided by the press service of Tunisian presidency shows President Kais Saied casting his ballot at a polling station in the Ennasr district near Tunis on Dec 17, 2022, during the parliamentary election. (TUNISIAN PRESIDENCY PRESS SERVICE / HO / AFP) TUNIS – Tunisia's president on Monday blamed ultra-low turnout for parliamentary […]
This photo dated Dec 9, 2020 shows flags of the Union Jack and the EU ahead of Britain's prime minister's meeting on post Brexit trade deal with European Commission president, in Brussels. (PHOTO / POOL / AFP) LONDON – Three years after its departure from the European Union, Britain is yet to benefit from the […]
The Union Flag flaps in the wind outside the Houses of Parliament in London, Oct 24, 2022. (PHOTO / AP) British spies unlawfully retained people's intercepted data over almost five years, a tribunal said on Monday in a ruling that blamed “widespread corporate failure” at the domestic intelligence agency MI5 and the interior ministry. The […]
In this file photo taken on Jan 19, 2023 passengers stand next to a board displaying the closure of the Montparnasse metro station in Paris, as workers go on strike over French President's plan to raise the legal retirement age from 62 to 64. (PHOTO / AFP) PARIS – A second nationwide strike disrupted French […]