North Macedonia's Prime Minister Dimitar Kovacevski (C) delivers a speech during a press conference in the Government building in Skopje, on July 16, 2022. North Macedonia's Prime Minister Dimitar Kovacevski announced on July 16, 2022 that Skopje had reached a compromise with Bulgaria in a long-running dispute, allowing them to start European Union membership talks. […]
A group arrives to pay their respects at a memorial service in the Akron Civic Center for Jayland Walker in Akron, Ohio, July 13, 2022. (GENE J. PUSKAR / AP) An autopsy found that eight Akron, Ohio, police officers shot Jayland Walker 46 times, including five times in the back, when they opened fire and […]
Britain's Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, Liz Truss, speaks during the launch of her campaign to be Conservative Party leader and Prime Minister, in Westminster, in London on July 14, 2022. (FRANK AUGSTEIN / AP) LONDON – British Foreign Minister Liz Truss clashed over tax policy with former finance minister Rishi […]
People write messages in memory of their beloved ones, on the National COVID-19 Memorial Wall, in London, on March 28, 2022. (TOLGA AKMEN / AFP) LONDON / NEW YORK / BERLIN / LOS ANGELES / PRAGUE / OTTAWA – An estimated 3.5 million people in Britain had COVID-19 in the latest week of available data, the Office for National Statistics […]
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen speaks during a press conference on the EU membership applications by Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels on June 17, 2022. (KENZO TRIBOUILLARD / AFP) BRUSSELS / MOSCOW / KYIV – The European Commission on Friday adopted a proposal for a seventh package of measures […]
A child has his thumb marked after receiving a polio vaccine during a door-to-door polio immunisation campaign in Mbezi Mwisho, Dar es Salaam on May 21, 2022. (ERICKY BONIPHACE / AFP) LONDON – Around 25 million children around the world missed out on routine vaccinations that protect against life-threatening diseases last year, as the knock-on […]
This photograph taken on July 15, 2022 shows a restaurant destroyed by flames due to a wildfire spreading in the area close to the beach of Cazaux lac, near La Teste-de-Buch, southwestern France. (THIBAUD MORITZ / AFP) LEIRIA, Portugal/LONDON – Hundreds more people were evacuated from their homes as wildfires blistered land in France, Spain and […]
This Jan 14, 2022 photo shows a police officer on duty at 10 Downing Street in London. (KIRSTY WIGGLESWORTH / AP) LONDON – The five remaining contenders to be Britain's next prime minister will go head to head in the first of three televised debates on Friday, hoping a good performance will boost their chances […]
This handout photo courtesy of US Navy shows the United States Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron, "Thunderbirds" and the US Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels, debut a F-16 Fighting Falcon and F/A-18 Super Hornet flight formation known as the "Super Delta" during a joint training evolution over Naval Air Facility (NAF) El Centro, […]
Cariol Horne, 54, holds up a sign as she stands outside the fenced-off parking lot outside Tops Friendly Market during a remembrance ceremony on July 14, 2022, in Buffalo, NY (JOSHUA BESSEX / AP PHOTO) The man accused of shooting dead 10 Black people at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, on May 14 […]
Flags of the European Union flutter in front of the headquarters of the European Central Bank (ECB) in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, on March 10, 2021. (ARMANDO BABANI / AFP) BRUSSELS – The European Commission cut its economic growth forecasts for the European Union and the eurozone for 2022 and 2023 and revised up its […]
A child has his thumb marked after receiving a polio vaccine during a door-to-door polio immunisation campaign in Mbezi Mwisho, Dar es Salaam on May 21, 2022. (ERICKY BONIPHACE / AFP) LONDON – Around 25 million children around the world missed out on routine vaccinations that protect against life-threatening diseases last year, as the knock-on […]
This file photo taken on June 4, 2021 shows a vial of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at a pharmacy in Paris, France. (STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP) OTTAWA / COPENHAGEN / LOS ANGELES / PRAGUE – Canada on Thursday authorized Moderna Inc's COVID-19 vaccine for babies as young as 6 months old, making it the country's first vaccine against […]
Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi gives a press conference at Canazei Fire Brigade on July 4, 2022, one day after an ice avalanche sparked by the collapse of the largest glacier in the Italian Alps killed at least six people and injured eight others. (PIERRE TEYSSOT / TEYSSOT / AFP) ROME – The Italian head […]
A forest fire reaches olive trees in the village of Colmeias, near Leiria, central Portugal, July 13, 2022. (ARMANDO FRANCA / AP) LEIRIA, Portugal – Thousands of firefighters battled more than 20 blazes that raged on Wednesday across Portugal and western Spain, menacing villages and disrupting tourists' holidays amid a heat wave that pushed temperatures […]
President of the Italian Senate Maria Elisabetta Alberti Casellati (center) reads the results of the vote in the Senate hall after a vote of confidence to the prime minister at Palazzo Madama in Rome on July 14, 2022. (ANDREAS SOLARO / AFP) ROME – Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi's coalition government appeared on the brink […]
A rare forest elephant is photographed in Gabon's Pongara National Park forest, March 12, 2020. (JEROME DELAY / AP) PONGARA NATIONAL PARK, Gabon – Forest elephants are smaller than their cousins on the African savannah, but in Gabon their destructive raids of farmers' fields are having an outsized impact on support for the government and […]
A man receives a dose of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine at Babington Hospital in Belper on Dece 16, 2021 as the UK steps up the country's booster drive to fight a "tidal wave" of Omicron. (OLI SCARFF / AFP) RIGA / PARIS / NAIROBI / LONDON – More than 200,000 COVID-19 deaths have been recorded across […]
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov waits to watch the Victory Day military parade at Red Square in central Moscow on May 9, 2022. (KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP) MOSCOW – Moscow highly values its relations with Riyadh and hopes US President Joe Biden's upcoming visit to Saudi Arabia would not be used to create hostility against Russia, […]
A health worker poses with a syringe with dose of a COVID-19 vaccine at the Museum of Tomorrow where adults and children between the ages of five and eleven are being vaccinated against the novel coronavirus in Rio de Janeiro on Jan 18, 2022. (Carl DE SOUZA / AFP) RIGA / PARIS / NAIROBI / LONDON […]