Dozens of people queue outside a pharmacy for a COVID-19 antigenic test on Jan 19, 2022 in Savenay, western France, as COVID-19 cases soar in Europe. (LOIC VENANCE / AFP) The European Union's population shrank for a second year running last year, the bloc's statistics office said on Monday, as the region reels from over […]
Children wait to be vaccinated against polio in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on May 18, 2022. (HERMAN EMMANUEL / XINHUA) UNITED NATIONS – The global population is projected to reach 8 billion on Nov 15, with India projected to surpass China as the most populous country in 2023, the United Nations said Monday, World Population […]
A view taken from a rescue helicopter of the Punta Rocca glacier near Canazei, in the Italian Alps in northern Italy, Tuesday, July 5, 2022, two days after a huge chunk of the glacier broke loose, sending an avalanche of ice, snow, and rocks onto hikers. (LUCA BRUNO / AP PHOTO) It is hard to […]
Vessels are parked along the anchorage near Pasir Panjang terminal port in Singapore on June 6, 2022. (ROSLAN RAHMAN / AFP) LONDON – If shipping is the beating heart of global trade, its pulse is about to get slower. Faced with uncertainty about which fuels to use in the long term to cut greenhouse gas […]
Britain's Foreign Secretary Liz Truss arrives at 10 Downing Street, to attend Cabinet Meeting, in London, June 14, 2022. (ALBERTO PEZZALI / AP) LONDON – British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss entered the race to replace Boris Johnson as prime minister on Monday, taking the number of candidates in an increasingly bitter and unpredictable contest to […]
A picture taken on June 16, 2021 in Brussels shows a passeport behind a mobile phone whose screen bears a EU Digital COVID-19 certificate. (KENZO TRIBOUILLARD / AFP) BRUSSELS/LONDON – European Union health agencies on Monday recommended a second COVID-19 booster for everyone over 60, as well as medically vulnerable people, amid a new rise […]
A photo of a TV screen shows French President Emmanuel Macron speaking during televised address on June 22, 2022, in Paris. (LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP) AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France – France's business elite is grappling to live with a new, more hostile political order a month after far-right and hard-left parties robbed President Emmanuel Macron's government of […]
This April 3, 2013, file photo shows bitcoin tokens in Sandy, Utah. (RICK BOWMER / FILE / AP) LONDON – The Financial Stability Board said on Monday it would propose "robust" global rules for cryptocurrencies in October, following recent turmoil in markets that has highlighted the need to regulate the "speculative" sector. The FSB, a […]
US President Joe Biden speaks before signing an executive order protecting access to reproductive health care services, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC on July 8, 2022. (SAMUEL CORUM / AFP) US President Joe Biden on Sunday said he has asked his administration to consider whether he has authority to […]
US President Joe Biden speaks before signing an executive order protecting access to reproductive health care services, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC on July 8, 2022. (SAMUEL CORUM / AFP) US President Joe Biden on Sunday said he has asked his administration to consider whether he has authority to […]
US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer speaks during the primary election night party for New York Governor in New York city on June 28, 2022. (YUKI IWAMURA / AFP) US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, the most senior Democrat in the chamber, has tested positive for the coronavirus and has very mild symptoms, a spokesperson […]
Supporters of Brazilian presidential pre-candidate for the leftist Workers Party, former president (2003-2010) Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, attend a campaign rally in Diadema, Sao Paulo state, Brazil on July 9 2022. (NELSON ALMEIDA / AFP) SAO PAULO – A local official from Brazil's leftist opposition Workers' Party was shot dead on Saturday by a […]
In this file photo dated May 5, 2022, members of a community patrol try to force their way into a house where drugs are allegedly sold in Pimville, Soweto. Daily community patrols have increased their presence in the area in the recent months due to rising crime, mostly drug related, in the community. (GUILLEM SARTORIO […]
In this file photo dated July 1, 2021, a general view of a burnt house in Rwangoma, Beni, Democratic Republic of Congo after ten people were killed in an attack overnight by suspected members of the Allied Democratic Forces Islamist militia. (SEBASTIEN KITSA MUSAYI / AFP) CAIRO – Islamic State claimed responsibility for an attack […]
A handout photograph released by the UK Parliament shows Britain's outgoing health secretary Sajid Javid (center, 2nd back row) making a statement after the weekly session of Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) at the House of Commons in London on July 6, 2022. (JESSICA TAYLOR / UK PARLIAMENT / AFP) LONDON – The contest to replace […]
A handout photograph released by the UK Parliament shows Britain's outgoing health secretary Sajid Javid (center, 2nd back row) making a statement after the weekly session of Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) at the House of Commons in London on July 6, 2022. (JESSICA TAYLOR / UK PARLIAMENT / AFP) LONDON – Four further candidates have […]
Members of social organizations and leftist groups protest against the agreement of the government of Argentina's President Alberto Fernandez with the International Monetary Fund, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on July 9, 2022. (LUIS ROBAYO / AFP) BUENOS AIRES – Argentine President called for unity on Saturday as protesters marched in the capital to the gates […]
Russian Navy boat of the Black Sea Fleet patrols an aria of the Mariupol Sea Port in Mariupol on May 30, 2022. (PHOTO / AP) MOSCOW – The Russian navy on Friday received the first submarine Belgorod which is designed to carry Poseidon nuclear-powered underwater drones. ALSO READ: Putin: Peace negotiations with Ukraine to get more […]
A man gets tested with an antigenic test for COVID-19 in Paris on July 6, 2022. (ALAIN JOCARD / AFP) BOGOTA / PRAGUE / LUSAKA / PARIS / LOS ANGELES / LISBON – The total number of COVID-19 related deaths in France passed the 150,000 mark on Friday, after 74 deaths related to the virus were recorded in hospitals in […]
In this Nov 25, 2019 file photo, highway BR-163 stretches between the Tapajos National Forest, left, and a soy field in Belterra, Para state, Brazil. (LEO CORREA / AP) MANAUS, Brazil – Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest reached a record high for the first six months of the year, as an area five times the […]