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 […]
French President Emmanuel Macron (left) and Algeria's President Abdelmadjid Tebboune (right) attend a signing ceremony in the pavilion of honour at Algiers airport, in Algiers, on Aug 27, 2022. (PHOTO / AFP) ALGIERS – Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune on Friday told his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron during a phone conversation that the Algerian ambassador to […]
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak (left rear) and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen (right rear) attend a joint press conference in Windsor, Britain, on Feb 27, 2023. (PHOTO / HANDOUT VIA XINHUA) LONDON – A new deal aimed at easing post-Brexit trade tensions in Northern Ireland was formally adopted on Friday by the […]
This photo grabbed from an aerial video made available by the Italian Coast Guards on March 11, 2023 shows a boat overloaded with migrants during a Coast Guards rescue operation on March 10, 2023 off the coast of Calabria, southern Italy. (HANDOUT / GUARDIA COSTIERA / AFP) MILAN – Europe risks seeing "tens, maybe hundreds […]
A photo shows a panel reading "Macron, get out or else ransacking" at a barricade and fires as protesters blck the access to the Frontignan oil depot a week after the government pushed a pensions reform through parliament without a vote, using the article 49.3 of the constitution, in Frontignan, southern France, on March 24, […]
This file aerial picture taken on Sept 13, 2022 at Glacier 3000 resort above Les Diablerets in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland shows the Tsanfleuron pass free of the ice that covered it for at least 2,000 years next to blankets covering snow from the last winter season to prevent it from melting. (PHOTO / […]
Locals walk past a truck carrying militarized police members during a police operation at the Salgueiro Complex, in Sao Goncalo, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, on March 23, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) RIO DE JANEIRO – At least 13 people were killed in clashes with police just outside Brazil's seaside city of Rio de Janeiro […]
In this file photo, firefighter helicopter drops water to put out a wildfire in the Baixa Limia – Serra do Xures Natural Park near the village of Lobeira, Ourense province, northwestern Spain, on Aug 25, 2022. A forest fire raged in eastern Spain on March 23, 2023, forcing hundreds of people to evacuate from nearby […]
Finnish President Sauli Niinisto attends a meeting to sign Finland's national NATO legislation in Helsinki, Finland, on March 23, 2023. (PHOTO / FINNISH GOVERNMENT / HANDOUT VIA REUTERS) HELSINKI – Finland's President Sauli Niinisto on Thursday signed into law his country's accession to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), which was ratified by parliament on […]
A car makes its way past a billboard calling on people to vote "yes" in the 26 March 2023 "Berlin 2030 Climate Neutral" referendum, in Berlin on March 20, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) BRUSSELS – Germany and the European Union are on course to resolve a dispute over the bloc's planned 2035 phaseout of CO2-emitting […]
A protester kicks a tear gas canister in front of the Opera at the end of a rally in Paris, on march 23, 2023. (PHOTO / AP) PARIS – Police fired tear gas and fought with violent black-clad anarchists in Paris and across France on Thursday as hundreds of thousands of protesters marched against President Emmanuel […]
A resident fetches water from a well at a residential area on the occasion of World Water Day in Quezon City, the Philippines, March 22, 2023. (PHOTO / XINHUA) UNITED NATIONS – Two-thirds of the world's population will continue to live in water insecurity well beyond 2030 if radical measures are not taken, UN water […]
Children look at an ice sculpture during the 2023 Bloor-Yorkville Icefest in Toronto, Canada, Feb 18, 2023. (PHOTO / XINHUA) OTTAWA – Canada's population increased by more than a million people for the first time in history in 2022, almost entirely due to a surge in immigrants and temporary residents, Statistics Canada said on Wednesday. Total population […]