Burkina Faso's new self-proclaimed leader captain Ibrahim Traore (center) attends a meeting in Ouagadougou on Oct 2, 2022. (PHOTO /AFP) OUAGADOUGOU – Burkina Faso's self-declared military leader Captain Ibrahim Traore said Sunday that the situation was under control after he announced the eviction of President Lieutenant Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba late Friday. "We would like […]
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who is running for another term, leaves the polling post where he voted in the general election in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Oct 2, 2022. (ANDRE COELHO / POOL / AP) BRASILIA/RIO DE JANEIRO – Brazil's presidential election is headed for a run-off vote, electoral authorities said on Sunday, after President […]
Brazil's former President and presidential candidate Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva leads a silent march, in Sao Paulo, Brazil Oct 1, 2022. (MARIANA GREIF / REUTERS) BRASILIA – Brazilians are voting on Sunday in the first round of their country's most polarized election in decades, with leftist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva favored to beat […]
Latvian Prime Minister and Head of board of leading political party Jauna Vienotiba (New Unity) Krisjanis Karins smiles as he speaks to the media while awaiting the results of parliament elections, in Riga, Latvia on Oct 1, 2022. (ROMAN KOKSAROV / AP) RIGA – Latvian Prime Minister Krisjanis Karins' center-right party New Unity on Saturday […]
Doctors walk inside the Ebola isolation section of Mubende Regional Referral Hospital, in Mubende, Uganda, Sept 29, 2022. In this remote Ugandan community facing its first Ebola outbreak, testing trouble has added to the challenges with symptoms of the Sudan strain of Ebola now circulating being similar to malaria. (HAJARAH NALWADDA / AP) KAMPALA – […]
A vial of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus disease (COVID-19) booster vaccine targeting BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron sub variants is pictured at Skippack Pharmacy in Schwenksville, Pennsylvania, US, Sept 8, 2022. (HANNAH BEIER / REUTERS) Only a third of US adults polled said they either already received the updated shots or plan to get the booster as […]
A woman stands in front of a damaged house, in Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, on Sept 12, 2022. (JUAN BARRETO / AFP) UNITED NATIONS – United Nations Security Council on Friday failed to adopt a draft resolution, which "condemns" the referendums held in four Ukrainian regions under Russian control from Sept 23 to 27. READ MORE: Kremlin […]
Amid sliding pound, financial jitters, UK's PM holds firm on radical policies British Prime Minister Liz Truss (left) and Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng visit Berkeley Modular, in Northfleet, Kent, Britain, Sept 23, 2022. (DYLAN MARTINEZ / POOL PHOTO VIA AP) British Prime Minister Liz Truss insisted her government has "done the right thing" […]
(From left to right) Brazilian presidential candidates Jair Bolsonaro (PL), Padre Kelmon (PTB), Luiz Felipe D'Avila (Novo), Soraya Thronike (Uniao), Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (PT), Simone Tebet (MDB) and Ciro Gomes (PDT) pose before a presidential debate ahead of the October 2 general election, at the Globo television network in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, […]
Eric Emeraux, head of the Gendarmerie's Central Office for Combating Crimes Against Humanity, Genocides and War Crimes, displays documents with a wanted poster depicting a photograph of Felicien Kabuga during an interview with Reuters at his office, about the arrest of Rwandan genocide fugitive suspect Felicien Kabuga, in Paris, France, May 19, 2020. (BENOIT TESSIER […]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan holds a news conference during the NATO summit at the Alliance's headquarters in Brussels, Belgium June 14, 2021. (YVES HERMAN / REUTERS) ANKARA – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday asked his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to engage in negotiations to resolve the Ukrainian crisis, according to a statement […]
A photo taken on Sept 28, 2022 from an aircraft of the Swedish Coast Guard (Kustbevakningen) shows the release of gas emanating from a leak on the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, in the Swedish economic zone in the Baltic Sea. (PHOTO / SWEDISH COAST GUARD VIA AP) Russia and European nations have launched investigations […]
In this photo taken by a drone, boats lie scattered amid mobile homes after the passage of Hurricane Ian, on San Carlos Island, in Fort Myers Beach, Florida, Sept 29, 2022. (REBECCA BLACKWELL / AP) Fort MYERS, Florida – Emergency crews tried on Thursday to reach stranded Florida residents as a resurgent Hurricane Ian veered […]
A healthcare worker holds a vial of the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine at a pop-up vaccination site operated by SOMOS Community Care during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Manhattan in New York City, New York, US, on Jan 29, 2021. (MIKE SEGAR / REUTERS) New York / HELSINKI / MOSCOW – Around 3.2 million people […]
Commuters pass beneath a tribute image of Queen Elizabeth II as they travel through Kings Cross train station in London on Sept 10, 2022. (ISABEL INFANTES / AFP) LONDON – Britain's Queen Elizabeth died of old age, according to her death certificate, which was published by the National Records of Scotland on Thursday. Elizabeth, Britain's […]
A young womann from the Turkana community waters goats from a shallow well dug into a dry riverbed at Eliye springs on the western shore of Lake Turkana in Turkana county, Kenya on Sept 28, 2022. (TONY KARUMBA / AFP) LODWAR, Kenya – In a dry river bed in Kenya's arid northwest, pastoralists dig ever-deeper […]
A man looks at his mobile phone while walking on the Concorde square in Paris at sunset on Feb 7, 2022. (LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP) PARIS / STOCKHOLM / MILAN – Once unthinkable, mobile phones could go dark around Europe this winter if power cuts or energy rationing knocks out parts of the mobile networks […]
This handout picture taken and released by the Turkish Defence ministry press office on Aug 3, 2022, shows an inspection delegation member inspecting the Sierra Leone-flagged cargo ship Razoni carrying 26,000 tonnes of corn from Ukraine, off the coast of north-west Istanbul. (TURKISH DEFENSE MINISTRY / AFP) ROME – The head of the United Nations […]
UNITED NATIONS – Despite the many crises of the past two years, e-government strategies have been advanced although many countries and municipalities have fallen short in providing adequate online services, according to a new UN survey whose results were released on Wednesday. The 2022 edition of the E-Government Survey shows that Denmark, Finland and South Korea […]
In this file photo taken on Sept 07, 2020, a road sign directs traffic towards the Nord Stream 2 gas line landfall facility entrance in Lubmin, north eastern Germany. (ODD ANDERSEN / AFP) OSLO – Sweden's coast guard discovered a fourth gas leak on the damaged Nord Stream pipelines earlier this week, a spokesperson told […]