Britain's King Charles III and Britain's Camilla, Queen Consort greet the crowd upon their arrival at Buckingham Palace in London, on Sept 9, 2022, a day after Queen Elizabeth II died at the age of 96. (DANIEL LEAL / AFP) LONDON – Presidents, prime ministers and monarchs from around the world will travel to London […]
Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson speaks during a press conference after she presented her resignation to the speaker of the Swedish Parliament on Sept 15, 2022, in Stockholm. (JONATHAN NACKSTRAND / AFP) STOCKHOLM – Sweden's outgoing Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson has handed in her resignation to the speaker of parliament, she said on Thursday, paving […]
Members of the public queue on Lambeth Bridge in London on Sept 14, 2022 to view the coffin of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, lying in state at Westminster Hall. (LOUISA GOULIAMAKI / AFP) LONDON – Mourners from all walks of life filed past the coffin of Queen Elizabeth through the night as she lay in […]
EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager gives a press conference in Brussels, on Sept 6, 2022, to announce Eu's veto against US life sciences company Illumina’s acquisition of biotechnology company Grail. (KENZO TRIBOUILLARD / AFP) BRUSSELS – From laptops to fridges to mobile apps, smart devices connected to the internet will have to assess their cybersecurity […]
The logo of the World Health Organization (WHO) is pictured on the facade of the WHO headquarters on Oct 24, 2017 in Geneva. (FABRICE COFFRINI / AFP) The world has never been in a better position to end the COVID-19 pandemic, the head of the World Health Organization said on Wednesday, his most optimistic outlook […]
This file photo taken on June 11, 2021 shows the entrance of the European Medicines Agency headquarters in Amsterdam. (FRANCOIS WALSCHAERTS / AFP) People in Europe should take whatever COVID-19 booster is available to them in the coming months, Emer Cooke, Executive Director of the European Medicines Agency, said in a Reuters Next Newsmaker interview […]
Scientists among those pushing for 'China Initiative' figure to be shut out A sign stands outside the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building, May 5, 2022, in Washington. (Patrick Semansky / AP) Calls are growing louder for US President Joe Biden to withdraw the nomination for a senior legal post of an assistant US […]
People queue to pay their respects to late Queen Elizabeth II who's lying in state at Westminster Hall in London, Sept 14, 2022. (BERNAT ARMANGUE / AP) LONDON – Thousands of mourners took their places in a queue snaking around the center of London on Wednesday, recognizing without complaint that they might have to wait […]
File photo of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. (JIM WATSON / AFP) WASHINGTON – The Biden administration has decided to withhold US$130 million of foreign military aid to Egypt over its failure to fulfill human rights conditions, US officials said on Wednesday, but allowed some funds to go through due to its determination that […]
A woman walks next to election posters of Ulf Kristersson, leader of the Moderate Party in Sweden, and leader of the Social Democrats and Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson in Stockholm on Sept 8, 2022. (JONATHAN NACKSTRAND / AFP) STOCKHOLM – The head of Sweden's Moderate Party, Ulf Kristersson, said on Wednesday he would begin […]
Photo taken on Jan 22, 2020 shows an exterior view of the headquarters of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, Switzerland. (LIU QU/XINHUA) FRANKFURT/ LONDON / LISBON -The world has never been in a better position to end the COVID-19 pandemic, the head of the World Health Organization said on Wednesday, his most optimistic […]
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky gestures while addressing a press conference with Netherland's prime minister (not in the picture), following their talks in Kyiv on July 11, 2022. (SERGEI SUPINSKY / AFP) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's car was involved in a traffic accident in Kyiv, but he is not seriously hurt, his spokesman Serhii Nykyforov said […]
This photo shows the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, eastern France, on Feb 7, 2019. (FREDERICK FLORIN / AFP) PARIS – The European Court of Human Rights on Wednesday ruled that France must re-examine repatriation requests from two French women who traveled to Syria with their partners to join Islamic State, and the […]
European Union flags fly outside the European Commission building in Brussel on June 16, 2022. (KENZO TRIBOUILLARD / AFP) BRUSSELS – The European Union is set to unveil plans on Wednesday to skim off windfall profits from energy companies and impose cuts in electricity usage across the bloc, in a package designed to shield citizens […]
The first UN-chartered vessel MV Brave Commander loads more than 23,000 tonnes of grain to export to Ethiopia, in Yuzhne, east of Odessa on the Black Sea coast, on Aug 14, 2022. (OLEKSANDR GIMANOV / AFP) LONDON/UNITED NATIONS – The United Nations is trying to broker a resumption of Russian ammonia exports through Ukraine, a […]
In this April 23, 2020 file photo, a sign is seen by the entrance of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia. (TAMI CHAPPELL / AFP) LOS ANGELES – The United States now joins a list of about 30 other countries with circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus (cVDPV) identified by the World Health Organization, […]
Volker Perthes, UN Special Representative to Sudan and head of the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan, speaks during a meeting of representatives of the tripartite mechanism in the Sudanese capital Khartoum on June 8, 2022. (ASHRAF SHAZLY / AFP) UNITED NATIONS – The top UN envoy for Sudan on Tuesday saw an […]
A child walks by as women sit in the camp for internally displaced people of Farburo 2 in the village of Adlale, near the city of Gode, Ethiopia, on April 6, 2022. (EDUARDO SOTERAS / AFP) JOHANNESBURG – Africa is losing 5 percent to 15 percent of its per capita economic growth due the effects […]
The first UN-chartered vessel MV Brave Commander loads more than 23,000 tonnes of grain to export to Ethiopia, in Yuzhne, east of Odessa on the Black Sea coast, on Aug 14, 2022. (OLEKSANDR GIMANOV / AFP) LONDON/UNITED NATIONS – The United Nations is trying to broker a resumption of Russian ammonia exports through Ukraine, a […]
500,000 sidelined by COVID-19, with effects to haunt more, study warns Restaurants, such as this McDonald's outlet in Garden Grove, California, on July 8, are among US businesses needing more workers. (ROBYN BECK / AFP) The US labor force has lost about 500,000 workers due to illnesses related to COVID-19 and even more people may […]