This handout photo released on Sept 30, 2022 by the Danish Defence Command and taken on Sept 29, 2022 shows one of four gas leaks at one of the damaged Nord Stream gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea. (DANISH DEFENCE / AFP) MOSCOW – Without the participation of Russian experts, Moscow won't recognize any results […]
A Syrian soldier is seen in an oil field in the countryside of Qamishli, northeastern Hasakah province, Syria, on Nov 5, 2019. (STR / XINHUA) The OPEC+ decision to curb oil production by 2 million barrels per day from November anticipates an economic downturn and is rooted in deep strategic value, analysts said. They said […]
A video grab from footage broadcast by the UK Parliament's Parliamentary Recording Unit shows Britain's Prime Minister Liz Truss (center) speaking, flanked by, Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng (left) and Britain's Foreign Secretary James Cleverly during her first weekly Prime Minister's Questions session at the House of Commons, in London, on Sept 7, […]
A retail store with closing down sign is seen in London, Britain, Sept 30, 2022. (MAJA SMIEJKOWSKA / REUTERS) LONDON – Foreign minister James Cleverly shied away from confirming or denying whether the government would retain its policy on low corporation tax on Thursday, saying only it was important to keep businesses competitive. The chancellor […]
In this file photo taken on July 21, 2021, spectators wearing masks queue before they have their health pass checked as they enter the Grand Rex cinema in Paris, amid the COVID-19 pandemic. (ALAIN JOCARD / AFP) Another wave of COVID-19 infections may have begun in Europe as cases begin to tick up across the […]
WASHINGTON – Finance leaders from the Group of Seven on Wednesday pledged to increase emissions reductions efforts and climate support for developing countries despite energy cost and security challenges prompted by Russia's special military operation in Ukraine. The G7 finance ministers and central bank governors reaffirmed in a statement their commitment to achieving net zero […]
In this Oct 8, 2022 file photo, a helicopter drops water to stop fire on the Crimean Bridge connecting the Russian mainland and Crimean peninsula over the Kerch Strait, in Kerch, Crimea. (PHOTO / AP) MOSCOW/KYIV/WASHINGTON – The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Wednesday that the Ukrainian military was responsible for a recent […]
The national flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina (left) is pictured next to the European Union flag during a welcoming ceremony for Bosnia's Chairman of the Council of Ministers, at the Chancellery in Berlin, on Aug 13, 2018. (ADAM BERRY / AFP) SARAJEVO – The European Commission on Wednesday recommended that Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) be […]
Cargo vessels are seen at the Port of Durban harbor in Cape Town on July 27, 2021. (RAJESH JANTILAL / AFP) Staff shortages caused by an ongoing strike over wages are impacting container and car terminals at South Africa's Durban port, one of the busiest on the continent, a unit of state-owned logistics company Transnet […]
A vaccinator draws a Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pediatric vaccine in Lansdale, Pennsylvania, US, Dec 5, 2021. (HANNAH BEIER / REUTERS) MOSCOW / LOS ANGELES – US health regulators authorized the use of Omicron-tailored COVID-19 booster shots from Moderna Inc and Pfizer Inc in children as young as five, a move that will expand the government's fall […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin addresses a plenary session of the Russian Energy Week forum in Moscow on Oct 12, 2022. (ALEXEY MAISHEV / SPUTNIK / AFP) MOSCOW / PRAGUE – Russia is ready to deliver additional volumes of natural gas to the European Union in the autumn-winter period, President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday. One of […]
Photo taken on Aug 22, 2022 shows the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. (PHOTO / XINHUA) KIEV – The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (ZNPP) has lost external power for the second time in five days, the Ukrainian government-run Ukrinform news agency reported Wednesday. The report cited International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director-General Rafael Grossi, who described […]
A woman holds a dead fish at the Kalambari refugee camp 30km near N'Djamena on July 14, 2022. (AURELIE BAZZARA-KIBANGULA / AFP) N'DJAMENA – Severe drought followed by the worst floods in 30 years have led to rocketing food prices and left a record 2.1 million people in Chad acutely hungry, according to United Nations […]
Representatives from various countries and universities arrive in the Svalbard's global seed vault with new seeds, in Longyearbyen, Norway, Feb 25, 2020. (NTB SCANPIX/LISE ASERUD VIA REUTERS) OSLO – A vault built on an Arctic island to preserve the world's crop seeds from war, disease and other catastrophes will receive new deposits on Wednesday, including […]
A member of the SSNPS (South Sudan National Police Service) police gestures as they gather ahead of patrolling the streets of Juba, South Sudan on April 9, 2020. (ALEX MCBRIDE / AFP) UBA – At least 25 people have been killed in South Sudan, officials said, after youths from two neighboring communities in the country's […]
A no-gun sticker is displayed on a doorway at Oak Park and River Forest High School on Aug 25, 2022, in Oak Park, ILLINOIS. (MARTHA IRVINE / AP) NEW YORK – Murders and suicides involving guns have reached an all-time high in the United States, a recent report from the US Centers for Disease Control […]
Gasoline and diesel prices are displayed near a gas station in Rome, Italy, June 23, 2022. (PHOTO / XINHUA) BRUSSELS – The question of how, when and whether to cap gas prices is set to dominate another meeting of European Union countries on Wednesday, as they pursue a joint plan to target high gas prices […]
Former French prime minister and mayor of Le Havre Edouard Philippe arrives for the inauguration ceremony of French President Emmanuel Macron, at the Elysee palace in Paris, France on May 7, 2022. (LEWIS JOLY / AP) PARIS / THE HAGUE / MOSCOW – Former French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe will appear before the Court of […]
This handout picture obtained by the Italian Space Agency 's LICIACube shows the NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission just before its closest approach to the Dimorphos asteroid, on Sept 26, 2022. (HANDOUT/ ASI/NASA / AFP) LOS ANGELES – NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission has successfully changed the orbit of the asteroid […]
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov attends a session of the Russian State Duma, the lower house of parliament, to approve laws on annexing the Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia regions into Russia, in Moscow, Russia Oct 3, 2022. (RUSSIAN STATE DUMA/HANDOUT VIA REUTERS/FILE PHOTO) LONDON/WASHINGTON – Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday that […]