Polling station officers receive the ballot boxes for the second round of the 2023 Presidential Elections on Feb 10, 2023, at the Cyprus State Fair grounds in the capital Nicosia's suburb of Engomi. (PHOTO / AFP) NICOSIA- A runoff election on Sunday to select the president of Cyprus pits two career diplomats against each other […]
Former US president Donald Trump speaks at a 2024 election campaign event in Columbia, South Carolina, on Jan 28, 2023. Trump hits the campaign trail Saturday for the first time in a third bid for the US presidency overshadowed by intensifying criminal investigations and a firestorm of political controversy. The twice-impeached Republican, whose party lost […]
Presidential candidate in Czech presidential election 2023 and former Czech army chief Petr Pavel speaks to his supporters during an election campaign rally in the Old Town Square on Jan 25, 2023 in Prague. (PHOTO / AFP) PRAGUE – Former Czech army chief Petr Pavel, a mainstream pro-Western candidate backing aid for Ukraine, held a […]
In this file photo taken on April 12, 2022 former US vice-president Mike Pence speaks at a campus lecture hosted by Young Americans for Freedom at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia. (RYAN M. KELLY / AFP) WASHINGTON – Documents marked as classified were discovered at former US vice-president Mike Pence's Indiana home last […]
Former US president Donald Trump announces a third run for president as he speaks at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, Nov 15, 2022. (REBECCA BLACKWELL / AP) A federal judge on Thursday ordered former US president Donald Trump and his attorneys to pay more than $937,000 in sanctions for suing former secretary of state Hillary […]
Former US president Donald Trump announces a third run for president as he speaks at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, Nov 15, 2022. (REBECCA BLACKWELL / AP) A federal judge on Thursday ordered former US president Donald Trump and his attorneys to pay more than $937,000 in sanctions for suing former secretary of state Hillary […]
Former Crown Prince Pavlos and former Prince Nikolaos carry the coffin of their father, Greece's late former King Constantine II, during his funeral at the Tatoi estate, the summer palace of the former Greek royal family, in Athens, Greece, Jan 16, 2023. (NIKOLAS KOMINIS / HANDOUT / REUTERS) ATHENS – European royalty gathered in Athens […]
In this Aug 10, 2022 file photo, former US president Donald Trump waves as he departs Trump Tower in New York. (JULIA NIKHINSON / AP) NEW YORK – A New York judge on Friday sentenced Donald Trump's namesake real estate company to pay a $1.61 million criminal penalty after it was convicted of scheming to […]
In this file photo taken on Nov 19, 2007, Constantine II of Greece leaves Westminster Abbey in London, following a service of celebration to mark the diamond wedding anniversary of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip. (ADRIAN DENNIS / AFP) ATHENS – Greece's former King Constantine II, whose nine-year reign coincided with one of […]
A demonstrator looks at mounted police forces while soldiers dismantle a camp by supporters of Brazil's far-right ex-president Jair Bolsonaro that had been set up in front of the Army headquarters in Brasilia, on January 9, 2023, a day after backers of the ex-president invaded the Congress, presidential palace and Supreme Court. (MAURO PIMENTEL / […]
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva walks in Planalto Palace after it was stormed by supporters of Brazil's former president Jair Bolsonaro in Brasilia, Brazil, Jan 8, 2023. (ERALDO PERES / AP) BRASILIA – Supporters of Brazil's far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro invaded and defaced the country's Congress, presidential palace and Supreme Court on […]
Demonstrators block the Desaguadero Border Crossing Point between Bolivia and Peru during a protest following the ouster of Peru’s former President Pedro Castillo, in Desaguadero, Peru, Jan 6, 2023. (CLAUDIA MORALES / REUTERS) LIMA – Dozens of protesters attempted to take over an airport near Peru's border with Bolivia Friday as part of anti-government protests, […]
Pope Francis attends the funeral of former Pope Benedict, in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Jan 5, 2023. (GUGLIELMO MANGIAPANE / REUTERS) VATICAN CITY — To the sound of tolling bells, 12 pallbearers carried the wooden coffin of Pope Benedict out of St. Peter's Basilica on Thursday and placed it before thousands of faithful […]
People participate in a demonstration demanding the dissolution of Congress and to hold democratic elections, rather than recognize Dina Boluarte as Peru's President, after the ouster of former President Pedro Castillo, in Lima, Peru, Jan 4, 2023. (ANGELA PONCE / REUTERS) LIMA — Police used tear gas to disperse protesters trying to approach Peru's Congress […]
This handout picture taken and released on Jan 2, 2023 by the Vatican media shows the body of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI laying in state in a chapel before going to the St Peter's basilica in the Vatican. (HANDOUT / VATICAN MEDIA / AFP) VATICAN CITY – A steady stream of people filed into St. […]
In this Oct 19, 2014 file photo, Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI waves as he arrives to attend a mass for the beatification of former pope Paul VI in St. Peter's square at the Vatican. (TONY GENTILE / REUTERS) VATICAN CITY – Former Pope Benedict, who in 2013 became the first pontiff in 600 years to […]
This photo taken and handout on August 27, 2022 by The Vatican Media shows Pope Francis (right) salute Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI (lrft) as Benedict XVI's aide Georg Gaenswein looks on, as they prepare to meet with new Cardinals following a consistory to create 20 new cardinals in the Vatican. (HANDOUT / VATICAN MEDIA / […]
Defendant Irmgard Furchner, a former secretary to the SS commander of the Stutthof concentration camp attends her trial in a courtroom in Itzehoe, Germany, Dec 20, 2022. (CHRISTIAN CHARISIUS / POOL / REUTERS) BERLIN – A 97-year-old woman who worked as a Nazi concentration camp secretary was convicted on Tuesday for her role in the […]
Demonstrators stand on an airport tarmac amid violent protests following the ousting and arrest of former President Pedro Castillo, in Ayacucho, Peru Dec 15, 2022. (MIGUEL GUTIERREZ CHERO / REUTERS) LIMA – Pressure rose on Peru's fledgling government on Friday as two Cabinet members resigned following deadly protests that have rocked the country since former […]
Then Peruvian president Pedro Castillo delivers a speech during a meeting with members of the self-defense committees, the so called "peasant patrols" who act as law-and-order enforcers in parts of rural Peru, at the Government Palace in Lima on Aug 10, 2022. (ERNESTO BENAVIDES / AFP) LIMA – Peru's defense minister announced a nationwide state […]