A general view of the city of Hargeisa, Somaliland, on Sept 18, 2021. (EDUARDO SOTERAS / AFP) MOGADISHU – At least five people were killed and 100 injured in Somalia's breakaway Somaliland region when security forces clashed with protesters demanding presidential elections be held in November, a regional leader said late on Thursday. Somaliland broke […]
An elderly woman walks in a street of Severodonetsk, in Donbass region, on April 13, 2022. (RONALDO SCHEMIDT / AFP) MOSCOW / MINSK – Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev paid a visit to Donbass on Thursday to explore measures to ensure the region's security and normalize life there. Medvedev wrote on […]
A silhouette of a firefighter is pictured during a wildfire in Manteigas, central Portugal, on Aug 10, 2022. (PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA / AFP) HOSTENS, France – European nations sent firefighting teams to help France tackle a "monster" wildfire on Thursday, while forest blazes also raged in Spain and Portugal and the head of the […]
Colombian President Gustavo Petro delivers a speech during the First Summit of Mayors from the Colombian Pacific Coast region, in Yumbo, Colombia on Aug 10, 2022. (JOAQUIN SARMIENTO / AFP) HAVANA/BOGOTA – Colombia hopes to restart peace talks with leftist guerrilla group the National Liberation Army in Cuba, the country's Foreign Minister Alvaro Leyva said […]
This March 6, 2020 file photo, shows the headquarters of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. (RON HARRIS / AP) The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will no longer recommend quarantines or test-to-stay programs at schools or daycare centers for people exposed to COVID-19, the agency said in updated […]
The Sierra Leone-flagged cargo ship Razoni sails under Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge after being inspected in Istanbul, Türkiye, on Aug 3, 2022. (EMRAH GUREL / AP) ISTANBUL – The first grain ship to depart from Ukraine under a UN-brokered deal docked in Türkiye on Thursday after 11 days at sea, Refinitiv data showed, and the […]
This handout photo taken from video and released by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Aug 7, 2022, shows the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station in southeastern Ukraine which is now under Russian military control. (RUSSIAN DEFENSE MINISTRY PRESS SERVICE VIA AP, FILE) UNITED NATIONS/KYIV – The UN chief said on Thursday that he is "gravely […]
A Russian military convoy is seen on the road toward the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station, in Enerhodar, Zaporizhzhia region, in territory under Russian military control, southeastern Ukraine, on May 1, 2022. (PHOTO / AP) BEIJING – The Ukrainian military forces said on Wednesday that they hit a key bridge near the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant […]
In this file photo dated March 10, 2014, Brazilian scientists work in front of the Brazilian Comandante Ferraz Antartic station. (VANDERLEI ALMEIDA / AFP) LOS ANGELES – Antarctica's coastal glaciers are shedding icebergs more rapidly than nature can replenish the crumbling ice, doubling previous estimates of losses from the world's largest ice sheet over the […]
Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves Robles speaks during a plenary session at the Summit of the Americas on June 10, 2022, in Los Angeles. (MARCIO JOSE SANCHEZ / AP) SAN JOSE – Costa Rica formalized its request to join a trade partnership of 11 countries across Asia, Australia and the Americas, President Rodrigo Chaves announced […]
People wait for COVID-19 vaccination at Soweto's Baragwanath hospital in South Africa on Dec 13, 2021. (JEROME DELAY / AP) ADDIS ABABA – The COVID-19 pandemic has brought into sharp focus the importance of having timely and reliable vital events data, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) said. According to the UNECA, the […]
Washington urged to stop interfering in other countries' affairs Active and retired public workers, including teachers, protest for better salaries and the rest of their vacation bonus which they say was paid partially, as they march to the Labor Ministry in Caracas, Venezuela, Aug 2, 2022. (ARIANA CUBILLOS / AP) Constant meddling by the United […]
Sierra Leone's President Julius Maada Bio arrives for an EU Africa summit at the European Council building in Brussels on Feb 17, 2022. (JOHN THYS, POOL PHOTO VIA AP) FREETOWN – At least two police officers and one civilian died after a day of anti-government protests in Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, staff at the city's […]
Turkish-flagged ship Polarnet carrying tons of grain from Ukraine sails along the Bosphorus Strait past Istanbul on Aug 7, 2022, after being officially inspected. (YASIN AKGUL / AFP) UNITED NATIONS – Under the Black Sea Initiative, 12 vessels have been authorized to depart the Ukrainian ports, a United Nations official coordinating the grain export deal […]
The river Rhine is pictured with low water in Cologne, Germany, Aug 10, 2022. (MARTIN MEISSNER / AP) BERLIN/LOBITH, Netherlands – Already bracing for recession and winter energy shortages, German businesses are grappling with the lack of another precious commodity: rain. Weeks of baking temperatures and scant rainfall this summer have drained the water levels […]
A firefighter sprays water at a burnt forest in Hostens, southwest France, July 21, 2022. (BOB EDME / AP) PARIS – Wildfires raged in southwestern France on Tuesday, destroying sixteen houses, burning 6,000 hectares and forcing the evacuation of almost 6,000 people in an area already hit last month by huge blazes. France, like the […]
The national Greek flag (R) and European Union flag flutter in the breeze in Athens, Greece on Oct 5, 2021. (David GANNON / AFP) ATHENS – Greece will exit the European Union's so-called enhanced surveillance framework on Aug 20, its finance minister said on Wednesday, a move that will allow the country greater freedom in […]
A health professional prepares a dose of a monkeypox vaccine at the Edison municipal vaccination centre in Paris on July 27, 2022. (ALAIN JOCARD / FILE / POOL VIA AP) LONDON – Health officials in Europe are discussing whether to follow a move by the United States to stretch out scarce monkeypox vaccine supplies, with […]
Election officials count votes at a polling station in Kilimera Primary School in Nairobi, Kenya on Aug 9, 2022. (MOSA'AB ELSHAMY / AP) NAIROBI – Preliminary results from Kenya's presidential election showed a tight race between the two main candidates vying to replace outgoing President Uhuru Kenyatta. The Tuesday election is an important test for […]
Ali Abdullahi Mohamed, a severely malnourished 27-month-old boy, is examined by a nurse for treatment in Banadir Maternity and Children Hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia on June 1, 2022. Four consecutive seasons of poor rains have left millions of drought-stricken people in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia facing starvation. (ED RAM / AFP) MOGADISHU – The number […]