NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg gestures as he addresses media after a meeting of the North Atlantic Council, following yesterday's explosion in Eastern Poland close to the border with Ukraine, at the Nato headquarters in Brussels on Nov 16, 2022. (JOHN THYS / AFP) BRUSSELS/WARSAW/MOSCOW – Jens Stoltenberg, secretary-general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, said […]
A registered nurse inoculates a man with a COVID-19 vaccine at a clinic set up in the parking lot of CalOptima in Orange, California, Aug 28, 2021. (JAE C HONG / AP) LOS ANGELES / MOSCOW / HARARE – New Omicron subvariants BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 accounted for nearly half of new COVID-19 cases in the […]
Former US president Donald Trump speaks at a rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Sept 3, 2022. (MARY ALTAFFER / AP) PALM BEACH, Florida – Donald Trump, who has mounted relentless attacks on the integrity of US voting since his 2020 election defeat, on Tuesday launched a bid to regain the presidency in 2024, aiming to pre-empt […]
Spectators watch as the Artemis I unmanned lunar rocket lifts off from launch pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Nov 16, 2022. (JIM WATSON / AFP) CAPE CANAVERAL — NASA's towering next-generation moon rocket blasted off from Florida early on Wednesday on its debut flight, a crewless voyage inaugurating […]
Italian writer Roberto Saviano leaves on Nov 15, 2022 the City of Justice (Citta Giudiziaria) in Rome, following a hearing in a defamation lawsuit from Italy's current prime minister. (FILIPPO MONTEFORTE / AFP) ROME – Roberto Saviano, Italy's best-known anti-Mafia author and a leading human rights campaigner, went on trial for libel on Tuesday for […]
A woman fills up water containers at a tap in a camp for internally displaced people in Baidoa, Somalia, on Nov 9. (GUY PETERSON / AFP) Experts, leaders and social groups at the ongoing United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP27, have called for action on water adaptation and resilience in the fight against climate […]
Former US president Donald Trump speaks at a rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Sept 3, 2022. (MARY ALTAFFER / AP) PALM BEACH, Florida – Donald Trump, who has mounted relentless attacks on the integrity of US voting since his 2020 election defeat, on Tuesday launched a bid to regain the presidency in 2024, aiming to pre-empt […]
This picture taken Jan 1, 2022 shows the European Union flag under the Arc de Triomphe, on the Place de l'Etoile in Paris.(ALAIN JOCARD / AFP) BRUSSELS – The Council of the European Union (EU) on Tuesday announced the launch of a special military mission to support Ukraine in the ongoing conflict with Russia. The […]
EU climate chief Frans Timmermans speaks at the COP27 UN Climate Summit on Nov 15, 2022, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. (PETER DEJONG / AP) SHARM EL SHEIKH, Egypt – The European Union plans to update its emissions-cutting target under the Paris climate accord, the EU climate policy chief told the COP27 summit on Tuesday, with […]
The sun sets behind the coal-fired power plant 'Scholven' of the Uniper energy company in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, Oct 22, 2022. (MICHAEL SOHN / AP) ROME – Analysts agree that the severe economic impacts of the energy crisis are being felt in almost all economic sectors in Europe, and the problems are bound to remain until […]
A registered nurse inoculates a man with a COVID-19 vaccine at a clinic set up in the parking lot of CalOptima in Orange, California, Aug 28, 2021. (JAE C HONG / AP) LOS ANGELES / MOSCOW – New Omicron subvariants BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 accounted for nearly half of new COVID-19 cases in the United States […]
Police officers gather outside a grain depot in Przewodow, eastern Poland, on Nov 15, 2022 where the Polish Foreign Ministry said that a missile fell and killed two people. (PHOTO / AP) WARSAW – Polish government confirmed on Tuesday night that two Polish citizens were killed in explosions in the Polish city of Hrubieszow near […]
A participant walks at the Sharm el-Sheikh International Convention Centre, in Egypt's Red Sea resort city of the same name, during the COP27 climate conference, on Nov 14, 2022. (FAYEZ NURELDINE / AFP) SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt – Government ministers and negotiators from nearly 200 countries on Tuesday began the hard slog of finding common ground […]
An areal view shows people protesting against the electoral reform proposed by Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and in support of the National Electoral Institute (INE), in Monterrey, Mexico, November 13, 2022. REUTERS/Daniel Becerril/File Photo MEXICO CITY — Mexico's president on Monday shrugged off a major demonstration against his plan to overhaul the country's […]
In this photograph taken on October 31, 2022, people walk through a crowded commercial street in Chennai. India is projected to see an explosion in its urban population in the coming decades, but its cities already cannot cope and climate change will make living conditions harsher still. (ARUN SANKAR / AFP) SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt – […]
RCI3FLYCLNO7NJNUGKEQ4ZPSBE.jpg SHARM EL-SHEIKH — The European Union is ready to update its emissions-cutting target, climate policy chief Frans Timmermans told the COP27 summit in Sharm el-Sheikh on Tuesday, pointing to recently agreed EU policies to cut emissions faster than planned. READ MORE: COP27: Developed countries urged to 'make pie bigger' "I'm happy to announce here […]
Democratic Republic of the Congo youth get the first steps of basic military training in Goma, eastern Congo, Nov 7, 2022. (MOSES SAWASAWA / AP) GOMA/KINSHASA – Fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo between the army and M23 rebels has moved close to the key eastern city of Goma, said an army spokesperson on […]
A compostable plastic bag full of food scraps is seen alongside non-compostable plastic bags in a recently received truckload of food waste at Recology Blossom Valley Organics North near Vernalis, California, US, Nov 10, 2022. (BRITTANY HOSEA-SMALL / REUTERS) Every Thursday, California resident Richard Redmond takes a gallon-sized container of food scraps to the farmers […]
US President Joe Biden holds a press conference on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Nusa Dua on the Indonesian resort island of Bali, Nov 14, 2022. (SAUL LOEB / AFP) WASHINGTON – US President Joe Biden admitted on Monday that he did not expect Democrats to have enough votes in the next Congress […]
Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at a rally to support Republican candidates ahead of midterm elections, in Dayton, Ohio, US November 7, 2022. REUTERS/Gaelen Morse/File Photo WASHINGTON — The US Justice Department in a court filing unsealed on Monday accused Donald Trump's lawyers of "gamesmanship" for arguing that some of the documents seized by […]