This 2003 electron microscope image shows mature, oval-shaped monkeypox virions (left) obtained from a sample of human skin associated. (CYNTHIA S. GOLDSMITH, RUSSELL REGNE / CDC via AP) BERLIN – Germany recorded its first case of monkeypox in a child, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for infectious diseases said on Tuesday. The 4-year-old infected girl […]
This handout video grab taken and released on Aug 9, 2022 by the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos shows the Soyuz-2.1b rocket carrying the Khayyam satellite blasting off from a launchpad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. (YURI KADOBNOV / AFP) MOSCOW – Russia launched an Iranian satellite into orbit on Tuesday from southern Kazakhstan, just three weeks […]
Union Jack flags are seen in front of the Elizabeth Tower, known as Big Ben, beside the Houses of Parliament in London on June 24, 2022. (FRANK AUGSTEIN / AP) LONDON – Prime Minister Boris Johnson came under heavy criticism on Monday for allowing a political vacuum at the heart of his government to threaten […]
A sign displays mask wearing information at Penn station in New York on Aug 2, 2021. (KENA BETANCUR / AFP) WASHINGTON / BERLIN – A group of 23 state attorneys general led by Florida told a federal court on Monday that the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lacks the legal authority to impose a nationwide […]
Union Jack flags are seen in front of the Elizabeth Tower, known as Big Ben, beside the Houses of Parliament in London on June 24, 2022. (FRANK AUGSTEIN / AP) LONDON – Prime Minister Boris Johnson came under heavy criticism on Monday for allowing a political vacuum at the heart of his government to threaten […]
Residents line up to vote at the Oltepesi Primary School in Kajiado County, Nairobi, Kenya, Aug 9, 2022. (BEN CURTIS / AP) NAIROBI – Millions of Kenyans started to cast their ballots for a new president, parliament and local authorities on Tuesday, live footage on local television stations showed. Veteran opposition leader Raila Odinga and […]
Bolsonaro gestures during the promotion ceremony of General Officers of the Armed Forces, at Planalto Palace in Brasilia, on Aug 4, 2022. (EVARISTO SA / AFP) RIO DE JANEIRO – Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro on Monday denied that he has any intention of carrying out a coup if he loses October's election, adding that he […]
Children stand at a food distribution site in the town of Adi Mehameday, in the western Tigray region of Ethiopia, May 28, 2022. (CLAIRE NEVILL / WFP VIA AP) UNITED NATIONS – Humanitarians in Ethiopia are targeting more than 16 million people for drought aid while more than 1.7 million people face flooding, a UN […]
BERLIN – German vaccine developer BioNTech could deliver its COVID-19 vaccines adapted to the Omicron BA.1 and BA.4/5 sub variants in October if given regulatory approval. On hundred million vaccine doses of the Omicron booster based on the earlier BA.1 variant have already been pre-produced by BioNTech Together with its US partner Pfizer, BioNTech planned […]
In this file photo dated June 24, 2020 Russian army RS-24 Yars ballistic missile system moves through Red Square during a military parade, marking the 75th anniversary of the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in World War II, in Moscow. (PAVEL GOLOVKIN/ POOL / AFP) MOSCOW – Russia has temporarily withdrawn its facilities from inspections […]
Armed Secret Service agents stand outside an entrance to former US president Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate late on Aug 8, 2022, in Palm Beach, Florida. (TERRY RENNA / AP) Former US president Donald Trump said FBI agents raided his Mar-a-Lago estate on Monday and broke into his safe, possibly connected to a Justice Department investigation […]
A local resident pushes her bicycle through damaged buildings in Toretsk, eastern Ukraine, on Aug 5, 2022. (BULENT KILIC / AFP) WASHINGTON / KIEV – The administration of US President Joe Biden announced Monday that the United States will provide Ukraine with US$1 billion worth of additional security assistance, the largest one-time weapons package since […]
This April 27, 2022 file photo shows a general view of Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in the Russian-controlled area of Enerhodar, seen from Nikopol. (ED JONES / AFP) KYIV/MOSCOW – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday that he had discussed the situation at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (NPP) in southern Ukraine with […]
Firefighters tackle a wildfire at the village of Asseiceira Pequena in Mafra on July 31, 2022. (PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA / AFP) BRUSSELS – Tensions are mounting ahead of this year's UN climate summit, as vulnerable countries ramp up demands for rich countries to pay compensation for losses inflicted on the world’s poorest people by […]
President Joe Biden takes off his mask as he starts to speak in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington on July 27, 2022. (SUSAN WALSH / AP PHOTO) WASHINGTON – US President Joe Biden ended isolation on Sunday after recovering from a COVID-19 rebound case. Biden had tested negative for the coronavirus […]
TOKYO – United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Monday that the risk of nuclear confrontation had returned after decades, calling on nuclear states to commit to no first use of the weapons. Any attack on a nuclear plant is a "suicidal thing", Guterres said, responding to reports of renewed shelling of the Zaporizhzhia facility […]
The US Capitol is seen in Washington, DC, on Aug 6, 2022. (STEFANI REYNOLDS / AFP) WASHINGTON – The US Senate on Sunday passed a sweeping $430 billion bill intended to fight climate change, lower drug prices and raise some corporate taxes, a major victory for President Joe Biden that Democrats hope will aid their […]
This picture taken on Aug 6, 2022 shows the entrance of the building where Belgian Walter Henri Maximilien Biot, husband of German consul Uwe Herbert Hahn, died on August 5, 2022, in the apartment they shared in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The police is investigating the circumstances of his death, according to local media. (ANDRE […]
Sculptures known as the "Benin Bronzes" are pictured at a ceremony for the signing of an agreement of intent to return them to Nigeria at the German foreign ministry in Berlin, Germany on July 1, 2022. (ADAM BERRY / AFP) LONDON – London's Horniman Museum said on Sunday it would return 72 artefacts, including 12 […]
Newly elected Colombian President Gustavo Petro celebrates at the Movistar Arena in Bogota, on June 19, 2022 after winning the presidential runoff election on June 19, 2022. (DANIEL MUNOZ / AFP) BOGOTA – Gustavo Petro will on Sunday become Colombia's first leftist president, elected by voters who hope he can carry out ambitious social and […]