Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin (left), Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko (center) and Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko pose ahead of their meeting at the Independence Palace in Minsk on Sept 3, 2020. (PHOTO / AFP) MOSCOW – Russia and Belarus on Monday inked 13 documents on integration between the two countries in the framework of their […]
Newly elected Scottish National Party leader Humza Yousaf speaks after being announced new SNP leader, at Murrayfield Stadium, in Edinburgh, Scotland, March 27, 2023. (PHOTO / PA VIA AP) LONDON – Scottish nationalists picked Humza Yousaf to be the country's next leader on Monday after a bitterly fought contest that exposed deep divisions in his […]
This image released by the Metro Nashville Police Department on their Twitter account on March 27, 2023, shows officers responding to a shooting at Covenant School, Covenant Presbyterian Church, in Nashville, Tennessee. (PHOTO / AFP) NASHVILLE, Tennessee – A heavily armed 28-year-old fatally shot three children and three adult staffers on Monday at a private […]
Workers handle the bodies of some of the migrants that are thought to have died after their boat sunk off the coast of Libya on Feb 15, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) GENEVA — A UN fact-finding mission on Libya said on Monday that it had reasonable grounds to believe war crimes and crimes against humanity […]
Migrants are escorted ashore from the UK Border Force vessel 'BF Ranger' in Dover, southeast England, on Mar 6, 2023, after having been picked up at sea while attempting to cross the English Channel. (PHOTO / AFP) LONDON — The Council of Europe's commissioner for human rights on Monday urged Britain's parliament to block a […]
In this June 16, 2022 file photo, European Union flags fly outside the European Commission building in Brussel. (PHOTO / AFP) BRUSSELS – The European Commission has agreed to propose a legal route to exempt cars than run on e-fuels from the EU's 2035 phaseout of new combustion engine cars to resolve a row with […]
This handout picture released on Sept 27, 2022 by the Danish Defence Command shows the gas leak at the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline as it is seen from the Danish Defence's F-16 rejection response off the Danish Baltic island of Bornholm, south of Dueodde. (HANDOUT / DANISH DEFENCE COMMAND/ AFP) MOSCOW – Moscow may […]
Emergency responders and heavy equipment are seen at the site of a deadly explosion at a chocolate factory in West Reading, Pennsylvania, March 25, 2023. (PHOTO / AP) WASHINGTON – The death toll from an explosion and fire at a chocolate factory in West Reading, the US state of Pennsylvania, had risen to seven, authorities […]
This handout picture released on Sept 27, 2022 by the Danish Defence Command shows the gas leak at the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline as it is seen from the Danish Defence's F-16 rejection response off the Danish Baltic island of Bornholm, south of Dueodde. (HANDOUT / DANISH DEFENCE COMMAND/ AFP) MOSCOW – Moscow may […]
A women walks in a empty terminal of the Franz Josef-Strauss airport in Munich, southern Germany, during a warning strike on March 26, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) BERLIN/FRANKFURT – Airports and bus and train stations across Germany were at a standstill on Monday morning, disrupting millions of commuters and travellers at the start of the work […]
A Russian submarine takes part in the "Vostok-2022" military exercises at the Peter the Great Gulf of the Sea of Japan outside the city of Vladivostok on Sept 5, 2022. (KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP) Russia plans to complete in early 2024 the construction of its coastal infrastructure in the Pacific Ocean for basing nuclear submarines […]
A man (top center) salvages a jacket as he looks over a tornado damaged home, March 26, 2023, in Rolling Fork, Mississippi. (PHOTO / AP) SILVER CITY, Mississippi – Rescuers combed through rubble on Saturday after a powerful storm tore across Mississippi late on Friday, killing at least 25 people there and one person in […]
Migrants from sub-Saharan Africa siting in a makeshift boat make its way towards the Italian coast, Oct 4, 2022. (PHOTO / AFP) TUNIS – At least 29 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa died when their two boats sank off the coast of Tunisia as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to Italy, the Tunisian coast guard […]
In this file photo taken on Dec 13, 2019, Scottish National Party (SNP) leader and Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon speaks with members of the media at the count centre in Glasgow as votes are counted as part of the UK general election. The SNP, which runs Scotland's semi-autonomous government, has been plunged into crisis […]
French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne speaks to the lawmakers at the National Assembly in Paris, March 20, 2023. (PHOTO / AP) PARIS – French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne plans to meet with opposition leaders and trade unions in the hope of ending weeks of protests against a new pension law, her office said on Sunday. […]
Sudan's army chief and defacto leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan speaks during the 5th Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC5) in Doha on March 4, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) Sudan's leader General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan said on Sunday that the country's army will be brought under the leadership of a new civilian government. Speaking before […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with Transport Minister at the Kremlin in Moscow on March 25, 2023. (PHOTO / SPUTNIK / AFP) Russia will station tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday, adding that the move would not violate nuclear non-proliferation promises. Putin likened his plans to the US […]
Volunteers sift through sand to collect microplastics on Laida beach in the Spanish Basque village of Ibarrangelu on June 8, 2019 as part of a cleanup campaign to mark World Oceans Day. (PHOTO / AFP) Walk along any beach in the world, no matter how isolated, you will find plastic of some kind washed up […]
General view of the plenary session of the XXVIII Ibero-American Summit of Heads of State and Government at the Dominican Foreign Ministry building in Santo Domingo, on March 25, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) SANTO DOMINGO – Leaders attending the Ibero-American Summit meeting in the Dominican Republic on Saturday discussed the need to address Haiti's deepening […]
Flowers and candles are seen on March 11, 2023 in Hamburg, northern Germany, at the tatort where several people were killed in a shooting in a church on March 9, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) FRANKFURT – Two people have died after a shooting in Hamburg, police said on Sunday, in a second deadly shooting in […]