A picture taken on September 1, 2022 from La Linea de la Concepcion shows the Rock of Gibraltar. (PHOTO / AFP) MADRID – Gibraltar on Friday accused Spain of a "gross violation of British sovereignty" after two customs officials entered the British overseas territory during an anti-smuggling operation. Early on Thursday, two Spanish customs agents […]
A local resident walks past a damaged vehicle on the island of Ischia on Nov 26, 2022, following heavy rains that caused a landslide. (CIRO FUSCO / ANSA / AFP) ROME – At least one person died and several others went missing on the island of Ischia in southern Italy on Saturday, after heavy rains […]
A vaccinator draws a Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pediatric vaccine in Lansdale, Pennsylvania, US, Dec 5, 2021. (HANNAH BEIER / REUTERS) LOS ANGELES / MOSCOW – The United States continues to see an unusual and early spike in flu and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infections on top of a new wave of COVID-19 cases, which […]
The silhouette of US engineer and NASA astronaut Megan McArthur is seen past the NASA logo in the Webb Auditorium at NASA headquarters in Washington, DC, on June 7, 2022. (STEFANI REYNOLDS / AFP) LOS ANGELES – For the first time, astronomers have measured and mapped polarized X-rays from the remains of an exploded star, […]
A medical worker collects a swab from a woman for a COVID-19 test at a health center in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on March 16, 2022. (WANG TIANCONG / XINHUA) SAO PAULO / MOSCOW – As many as 4,500 health workers died in Brazil after contracting COVID-19 while working to save lives during the pandemic, […]
A woman holds a dead fish at the Kalambari refugee camp 30km near N'Djamena on July 14, 2022. (AURELIE BAZZARA-KIBANGULA / AFP) N'DJAMENA – Severe drought followed by the worst floods in 30 years have led to rocketing food prices and left a record 2.1 million people in Chad acutely hungry, according to United Nations […]
This file photo taken on Oct 1, 2019 shows the logos of mobile apps Facebook and Google displayed on a tablet in Lille. (DENIS CHARLET / AFP) WASHINGTON – A bipartisan group of US lawmakers on Monday released a revised version of a bill aimed at making it easier for news organizations to negotiate collectively […]
This general view taken on July 8, 2018, shows the Kremlin and Moscow State University (back) in Moscow, Russia. (MLADEN ANTONOV / AFP) MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Friday banning "unfriendly" investors from making transactions with their shares in strategic Russian enterprises and projects until the end of the year. […]
Masked patrons wait to order at a food stand inside Grand Central Market on July 13, 2022, in Los Angeles. (MARCIO JOSE SANCHEZ / AP) LOS ANGELES / BERLIN / WARSAW – The latest and most transmissible COVID-19 variant has been driving another surge of infections in the United States as the country's total caseload topped […]
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 […]
The Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) mission launches on Rocket Lab's Electron rocket from the Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand, on June 28, 2022. (ROCKET LAB) LOS ANGELES – NASA launched a new mission codenamed CAPSTONE on Tuesday to test a new type of lunar orbit, […]