US President Joe Biden attends an event on fighting "ghost guns" crimes at the White House in Washington, DC April 11, 2022. (PHOTO/XINHUA) WASHINGTON – US President Joe Biden said the Supreme Court decision overturning the right to an abortion was an exercise in "raw political power" and signed an executive order on Friday to […]
Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves from 10 Downing Street in central London on July 6, 2022 to head to the Houses of Parliament for the weekly Prime Minister's Questions session. (JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP) LONDON – As many as a dozen candidates were on Friday eyeing up replacing Boris Johnson as British prime minister […]
A video grab from footage broadcast by the UK Parliament's Parliamentary Recording Unit shows Conservative MP for Tonbridge and Malling, Tom Tugendhat, speaking during an extraordinary session of parliament called to discuss the collapse of the Afghan government in the House of Commons in London on Aug 18, 2021. (AFP / PRU) LONDON – British […]
Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin addresses the court as Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill presides over Chauvin's sentencing at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis, June 25, 2021. (COURT TV VIA AP / POOL / FILE) Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, convicted last year of murdering George Floyd, was sentenced on Thursday to […]
A man gets tested with an antigenic test for COVID-19 in Paris on July 6, 2022. (ALAIN JOCARD / AFP) GENEVA / STOCKHOLM / JOHANNESBURG / LONDON / OTTAWA / THE HAGUE / CAIRO / BOGOTA – Europe is facing a new wave of COVID-19 driven by the highly-transmissible BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants of Omicron, said the European Medicines Agency (EMA) on […]
European lawmakers gather to vote at the European Parliament on July 6, 2022 in Strasbourg, eastern France. (JEAN-FRANCOIS BADIAS / AP PHOTO) BRUSSELS – Members of the European Parliament on Thursday voted in favor of a resolution to add the right to abortion to the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, condemning the recent US Supreme […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks to members of the State Duma and the Federal Assembly of The Russian Federation in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia on July 7, 2022. (ALEXEI NIKOLSKY / SPUTNIK / KREMLIN POOL PHOTO VIA AP) MOSCOW – Russia is open to peace talks, and the negotiations with Ukraine will get more […]
Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson makes a statement in front of 10 Downing Street in central London on July 7, 2022. Johnson quit as Conservative party leader, after three tumultuous years in charge marked by Brexit, COVID-19 and mounting scandals. (JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP) Scandal-ridden Boris Johnson announced on Thursday he would quit as British prime […]
Homeless people receive food at Sao Martinho de Lima Community Center, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on May 30, 2022. (FILIPE ARAUJO / AFP) LONDON – The global cost-of-living crisis is pushing an additional 71 million people in the world's poorest countries into extreme poverty, a new report published by the UN Development Programme on Thursday […]
A child, 11, receives the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for children in Montreal, Quebec on Nov 24, 2021. (ANDREJ IVANOV / AFP) BRUSSELS / ROME / OTTAWA – Half of the Canadian population, or more than 17 million people, were infected with Omicron in only five months starting December 2021, local media reported Wednesday. The National […]
Ukrainian journalists walk in the yard of National Pedagogic university destroyed by a Russian attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, July 6, 2022. (EVGENIY MALOLETKA / AP) BRUSSELS/KYIV – Managing the consequences of the Russia-Ukraine conflict will top the list of priorities of the Czech Republic, which took over the six-month rotating presidency of the Council of […]
A Congolese army tank heads towards the front line near Kibumba in the area surrounding the North Kivu city of Goma on May 25, 2022 during clashes between the Congolese army and M23 rebels. (ARLETTE BASHIZI / AFP) KINSHASA – President Felix Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and his Rwandan counterpart, Paul […]
World Health Organisation Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus delivers a speech on the opening day of 75th World Health Assembly of the World Health Organisation in Geneva on May 22, 2022. (JEAN-GUY PYTHON / AFP) LONDON – More than 6,000 cases of monkeypox have now been reported from 58 countries in the current outbreak, the World […]
In this photo dated May 13, 2022, a mother looks on as two children lie on a bed in the recovery section for of malnourished patients in the Alliance for International Medical Action-managed nutrition unit of the hospital Tchad/ Chine in N'djamena, Chad. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP) LONDON/ROME/SANTIAGO – World hunger levels rose again last […]
Flags of the EU fly in front of the headquarters of the European Commission in Brussels, Belgium, on June 29, 2020. (ZHANG CHENG / XINHUA) BRUSSELS – The European Parliament on Wednesday backed EU rules labeling investments in gas and nuclear power plants as climate-friendly, throwing out an attempt to block the law that has […]
Brazilian Supreme Court Judge Edson Fachin speaks during a hearing on Turkey's extradition request for Brazilian-Turkish businessman Ali Sipahi in Brasilia on Aug 6, 2019. (EVARISTO SA / AFP) BRASILIA – Brazil is at risk of facing a more serious incident than the Jan 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol, said the head of […]
Food and Drug Administration building is shown Thursday, Dec 10, 2020 in Silver Spring, Md. (MANUEL BALCE CENETA / AP) BRUSSELS / ROME – The US Food and Drug Administration said on Wednesday it had authorized state-licensed pharmacists to prescribe Pfizer Inc's COVID-19 pill to eligible patients to help improve access to the treatment. The […]
A video grab from footage broadcast by the UK Parliament's Parliamentary Recording Unit shows Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson answering questions at a parliamentary Liaison Committee hearing in the House of Commons in London on July 6, 2022. (PRU / AFP) LONDON – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson defied pressure to quit on Wednesday from […]
A video grab from footage broadcast by the UK Parliament's Parliamentary Recording Unit shows Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaking next to Britain's newly appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer Nadhim Zahawi (right) and Britain's Justice Secretary and deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab (left) during the weekly session of Prime Minister's Questions at the House of […]
In this file photo taken on June 30, 2022 Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson gestures ahead of a meeting of The North Atlantic Council during the NATO summit at the Ifema congress center in Madrid. (GABRIEL BOUYS / AFP) LONDON – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was clinging to power on Wednesday, gravely wounded by […]