Ethiopian refugees who fled the fighting in the Tigray region transport building materials using a donkey-pulled cart, at Umm Rakuba camp in eastern Sudan's Gedaref State, on Aug 11, 2021. (ASHRAF SHAZLY / AFP) Sudan's military accused Ethiopia's army of executing seven Sudanese soldiers and a civilian who were captives, the Sudanese armed forces said […]
People stroll on Red Square in front of the Spasskaya Tower and St. Basil's Cathedral in downtown Moscow on June 7, 2022. (NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA / AFP) LONDON – Russia defaulted on its foreign sovereign bonds for the first time since the Bolshevik revolution, as sweeping sanctions cut the country off from the global financial system […]
A laborer works inside a mill of refined wheat flour at Khanna in India's Punjab state on May 18, 2022. (SAJJAD HUSSAIN / AFP) MUMBAI/BUENOS AIRES/LONDON – It only took 24 hours last month for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government in India – the world's second-largest producer of wheat – to shelve its plans to […]
This photo dated Dec 9, 2020 shows flags of the Union Jack and the EU ahead of Britain's prime minister's meeting on post Brexit trade deal with European Commission president, in Brussels. (OLIVIER HOSLET / POOL / AFP) LONDON – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government will press ahead on Monday with legislation to scrap […]
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz speaks next European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, US President Joe Biden, Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi and European Council President Charles Michel during a press statement on the first day of the G7 leaders' summit held at Elmau Castle, […]
A woman lays flowers at the scene of a shooting in central Oslo, Norway on June 25, 2022. (SERGEI GRITS / AP) OSLO – Terrified revelers at a gay bar in Oslo hid in a basement and desperately called loved ones as a gunman went on the rampage, killing two people and injuring 21 on […]
People protest about abortion outside the Supreme Court in Washington on June 25, 2022. (STEVE HELBER / AP) WASHINGTON/JACKSON, Mississippi – Hundreds of protesters descended on the US Supreme Court on Saturday to denounce the justices' decision to overturn the half-century-old Roe v. Wade precedent that recognized women's constitutional right to abortion. The sweeping ruling […]
President Joe Biden signs into law S. 2938, the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act gun safety bill, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington pn June 25, 2022. First lady Jill Biden looks on at right. (PABLO MARTINEZ MONSIVAIS / AP) WASHINGTON – US President Joe Biden on Saturday signed into law the […]
Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson addresses a press conference during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) at Lemigo Hotel in Kigali on June 24, 2022. (DAN KITWOOD / POOL / AFP) KIGALI – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Saturday he aims to remain in power until the middle of the next decade, […]
Smoke and dirt rise from the city of Severodonetsk in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas on June 17, 2022. (ARIS MESSINIS / AFP) BEIJING – The Russian military on Saturday announced full control of Severodonetsk, the administrative center of the Ukraine-controlled part of the eastern Lugansk region. With the support of Russian troops, the […]
In this file photo taken on January 10, 2022, a health worker shows a vial of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine against the coronavirus disease COVID-19 at a vaccination center in Santiago. (JAVIER TORRES / AFP) NEW YORK – Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE said on Saturday that a booster dose of updated versions of their COVID-19 […]
France's President Emmanuel Macron (left) and his wife Brigitte Macron (center) are greeted by Bavaria's State Premier Markus Soeder (right) and a Bavarian honor guard upon their arrival at the Franz Josef Strauss Airport in Munich, southern Germany on June 25, 2022, on the eve of the G7 summit. (CHRISTOF STACHE / AFP) SCHLOSS ELMAU, […]
In this photo provided by the Unidad de Microscopía Electrónica del ISCIII in Madrid, on May 26, 2022, an electronic microscope image shows the monkeypox virus seen by a team from the Arbovirus Laboratory and the Genomics and Bioinformatics Units of the Carlos III Health Institute (ISCIII) in Madrid. (UNIDAD DE MICROSCOPÍA ELECTRÓNICA DEL ISCIII, […]
A sales associate arranges guns on display at Burbank Ammo & Guns in Burbank, California, June 23, 2022. (JAE C. HONG / AP) WASHINGTON – The US Congress sent a gun bill to the White House on Friday after the House of Representatives voted 234-193 to pass the legislation. The bill, approved by the Senate the day […]
OSLO – Two people were killed and 14 wounded on Saturday in a shooting at a nightclub and in nearby streets in Norway's capital Oslo, Norwegian police said. A suspect believed to be the sole perpetrator was apprehended, police told reporters. READ MORE: Norway mosque shooter gets 21 years for murder, anti-terrorism offence The crime scene […]
A health worker in a mobile test station takes a quick test for the COVID-19 on a man who stands outside in front of the wagon in Munich, southern Germany, on April 8, 2022, amid the pandemic. (CHRISTOF STACHE / AFP) ATHENS / BERLIN / ROME – The Omicron sub-lineage BA.5 became the dominant COVID-19 variant […]
Supporters of abortion rights attend a rally in Washington, DC, the United States, on May 14, 2022. (LIU JIE/XINHUA) WASHINGTON – The US Supreme Court on Friday overturned Roe v Wade, a landmark decision that established a constitutional right to abortion in the nation nearly 50 years ago. "Roe was egregiously wrong from the start," […]
Britain's Prince Charles delivers his message during the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), June 24, 2022 in Kigali, Rwanda. (DAN KITWOOD / POOL PHOTO VIA AP) KIGALI – Britain's Prince Charles expressed deep sorrow over slavery in a speech to Commonwealth leaders in Rwanda on Friday and acknowledged that the […]
This Feb 4, 2022 picture shows in a reflection the new logo of French pharmaceutical group Sanofi which is presented on the day of the group's 2021 full year results at Sanofi headquarters in Paris. (ERIC PIERMONT / AFP) PARIS/LONDON – Late-stage data on an experimental COVID-19 vaccine from Sanofi and GSK has showed the […]
Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson delivers a speech at the Business Forum in Kigali on June 23, 2022, during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting. (DAN KITWOOD / POOL / AFP) LONDON – Boris Johnson's Conservatives lost two parliamentary seats on Friday, a crushing blow to the governing party that prompted the resignation of the […]