Sweden's Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson arrives for an EU summit in Brussels, Oct 20, 2022. (GEERT VANDEN WIJNGAERT / AP) HELSINKI – Ways to further enhance cooperation between Finland and Sweden, especially on their path to membership of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), topped the agenda of talks here between the prime ministers of […]
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UN: Horn of Africa hit by drought, cholera
Livestock are seen in a dried field due to drought in Kidemu sub-location in Kilifi County, Kenya, March 23, 2022. (PHOTO / XINHUA) UNITED NATIONS – Amid the worst drought in 40 years, Horn of Africa countries have been hit by outbreaks of cholera and acute watery diarrhea, while fighting in northern Ethiopia continues, a […]
Pelosi’s husband ‘assaulted’ at home, attacker in custody
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her husband Paul Pelosi arrive at the State Department for the Kennedy Center Honors State Department Dinner, Dec 7, 2019, in Washington. (AP PHOTO/KEVIN WOLF, FILE) WASHINGTON – US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband was "violently assaulted" by an individual who broke into his home in San Francisco, California, […]
Canada confirms 21,810 new COVID-19 cases in one week
A United States-bound passenger walks in Toronto Pearson Airport's Terminal 3, days before new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) testing protocols to enter the US come into effect, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada Dec 3, 2021. (CHRIS HELGREN / REUTERS) OTTAWA / MOSCOW – Canada confirmed 21,810 new COVID-19 cases for the week ending Oct 22, the Public […]
Russia’s Progress MS-21 cargo spacecraft docks with ISS
In this handout photo released by Roscosmos State Space Corporation on Oct 26, 2022, the Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket with the Progress MS-21 spacecraft blasts off at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Oct 26, 2022. (ROSCOSMOS STATE SPACE CORPORATION VIA AP) VLADIVOSTOK – Russia's Progress MS-21 cargo spacecraft successfully docked with the Russian […]
Period of West-dominated world is ending, says Putin
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at the plenary session of the 19th annual meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club outside Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Oct. 27, 2022. (Sergei Karpukhin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP) MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir Putin has said the historical period of boundless Western domination in world affairs is coming […]
IAEA inspectors to visit Ukraine on ‘dirty bombs’ allegations
This Nov 14, 2007 picture shows a view of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) headquarters in Vienna. The IAEA has praised China's efforts and progress in stepping up nuclear security and contributing to global governance of nuclear security. (JOE KLAMAR / AFP) UNITED NATIONS – Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency are on their […]
WHO chief says Ebola spread in Uganda a matter of concern
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 – […]
Finnish govt earmarks 6m euros for Russia border pilot section
The Finnish-Russian Imatra border crossing is pictured in Imatra, south-eastern Finland, on May 13, 2022. (ALESSANDRO RAMPAZZO / AFP) HELSINKI – The government of Finland has earmarked six million euros ($5.98 million) for the construction of a three-km pilot section of a fence on the country's border with Russia, it said in a press release […]
US experts concerned over emerging Omicron subvariants
A medical worker holds a sign as Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) (out of frame) delivers a press conference after receiving a COVID-19 booster shot at AltaMed Medical clinic in Los Angeles, California, on Oct 6, 2022. (RINGO CHIU / AFP) LOS ANGELES / WASHINGTON / MOSCOW – Health experts are concerned emerging Omicron subvariants would […]
Ukrainian seaports ship 9m tons foodstuffs under grain deal
The Panama-flagged Navi Star carrying 33,000 tonnes of grain, arrives at the Foynes Port in County Limerick, Ireland, on Aug 20, 2022 after leaving southern Ukraine's main port of Odessa two weeks ago. (LIAM BURKE / PRESS 22 / AFP) KIEV – Ukraine's Black Sea ports have shipped 9 million tons of foodstuffs under a […]
Climate activists stage week-long protests in New York City
Smoke comes out of a steam pipe across from Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City Oct 24, 2022. (TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP) NEW YORK – Climate activists from multiple non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are implementing week-long protests against climate change and inequality ahead of the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Sandy. Activists briefly shut […]
IEA: Energy crisis a potential turning point to cleaner future
A thermoelectric power station works near the frozen Moskva river in central Moscow, Russia on March 11, 2021. (YURI KADOBNOV / AFP) PARIS – Today's energy crisis is causing profound and long-lasting changes that have the potential to hasten the transition to a more sustainable and secure energy system, according to World Energy Outlook 2022 […]
UN envoy: Peace can only be achieved through coordinated action
Photo taken on Oct 26, 2022 shows a view of a UN Security Council meeting on the situation in the Great Lakes region at the UN headquarters in New York. (ESKINDER DEBEBE / UN PHOTO via XINHUA) UNITED NATIONS – It is only through coordinated, coherent and harmonious action that the Great Lakes nations can […]
EU to provide €500m for Western Balkans to tackle energy crisis
North Macedonia's Prime Minister Dimitar Kovacevski (right) shakes hand with President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen after they delivered a press conference in Skopje, on Oct 26, 2022. (ROBERT ATANASOVSKI / AFP) SKOPJE – The European Union (EU) will provide 500 million euros ($504 million) in grants for the Western Balkan countries […]
UN: LatAm countries agree to spur change in development pattern
People walk amid a traffic jam during a public transport strike for the high price of oil derivates, in the southern outskirts of Tegucigalpa, on April 7, 2022. (ORLANDO SIERRA / AFP) BUENOS AIRES – Foreign ministers and other top officials from Latin America and the Caribbean on Wednesday agreed on the urgent need to […]
US may face ‘tripledemic’ amid exodus of health care workers
Medical workers treat patients in the COVID-19 ward at the US Department of Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare system campus and medical center in West Roxbury, Massachusetts on Jan 11, 2022. (JOSEPH PREZIOSO / AFP) NEW YORK / MOSCOW – The United States could very well face what some doctors have dubbed a "tripledemic" this winter, […]
Macron promises to solve high inflation, strikes
In this screenshot taken in Paris on Oct 26, 2022 French President Emmanuel Macron (right) speaks during the TV show "L'evenement", which is airing on the national television France 2. (LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP) PARIS – French President Emmanuel Macron pledged on Wednesday to "never leave the French without a solution" in the face of […]
New Serbian govt headed by PM Brnabic sworn in
Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic poses for a photograph during an interview with Reuters in Belgrade, Serbia, Jan 11, 2022. (ZORANA JEVTIC / REUTERS) BELGRADE – The Serbian parliament elected the new government led by Prime Minister Ana Brnabic here on Wednesday. Brnabic vowed that Serbia will continue with its European integration process, while also […]
Swedish Navy conducts probes at Nord Stream pipeline leak site
This handout 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. (HANDOUT / SWEDISH COAST GUARD / AFP) STOCKHOLM – The Swedish Navy said […]