A volunteer wearing Personal Protective Equipment as a precaution against the spread of bird flu observes an injured rescued bird at a temporary shelter in Ahmedabad on Jan 13, 2021. (PHOTO / AFP) CHICAGO – Avian flu has reached new corners of the globe and become endemic for the first time in some wild birds […]
An aerial view of the site of the forest fire in Santa Juana, Concepcion province, Chile on Feb 6, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) SANTIAGO – Chilean firefighters were battling to hold back forest fires on Monday as authorities said hot and dry weather would continue this week, potentially exacerbating what are already the deadliest blazes […]
Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak leaves 10 Downing Street, in London, on Feb 1, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) LONDON — Health workers in Britain began their largest strike on Monday, as tens of thousands of nurses and ambulance workers walk out in an escalating pay dispute, putting further strain on the state-run National Health Service […]
DUBAI, Feb 7, 2023 – (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – With the official launch of its Apparel Store and Night Club in Virtual Reality (VR), Celebverse, the first and only virtual world dedicated to “Adam & Eve,” an original human couple and parents of the human race, is poised to revolutionize the global fashion and […]
Firefighters are seen during a fire in Puren, Araucania region, Chile on Feb 4, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) SANTIAGO – Dozens of wildfires blazing though Chile caused the government to extend an emergency order to another region on Saturday, as a scorching summer heat wave complicates efforts to control fires that have claimed at least […]
A man puts out a fire in Santa Juana, Concepcion province, Chile on Feb 3, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) SANTIAGO – Dozens of raging wildfires in Chile claimed at least thirteen lives and torched some 14,000 hectares (35,000 acres), authorities reported on Friday, as a summer heatwave sweeps across the southern hemisphere country. Eleven people, […]
General view of the Peruvian Congress chamber in session in Lima on Feb 1, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) LIMA – Peru's Congress shelved President Dina Boluarte's bill to bring elections forward to 2023 on Friday night, leaving a major demand of demonstrators whose protests have rocked the country in recent weeks up in the air. […]
Pope Francis (center) attends a meeting with Bishops at the National Episcopal Conference of Congo (CENCO) in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), on Feb 3, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) KINSHASA – Pope Francis on Thursday urged young people in Democratic Republic of Congo to forge a new future without the ethnic rivalry, corruption and […]
Prices have risen on almost 1,000 drugs in the United States in the first three weeks of January, the most increases in January since at least 2011, according to a nonprofit organization that tracks drug prices. The price increases on 985 drugs ranged from 1 to 26 percent, with median increases of 5 percent, data […]
This image from NASA released on Jan 25 shows a formation on Mars that resembles a bear. (PHOTO / AFP) LOS ANGELES — Move over, Yogi and Paddington. There is a new bear in town. Or on Mars, anyway. The beaming face of a cute Teddy bear appears to have been carved into the surface […]
People protest outside the Police Investigation Operations Center – DIRINCRI to demand the release of those arrested at the campus of the University of San Marcos in Lima on Jan 21, 2023. (ERNESTO BENAVIDES / AFP) LIMA – Peruvian police arrested over 200 people accused of illegally entering the campus of a major Lima university, […]
European Union flags fly outside the European Commission building in Brussel on June 16, 2022. (KENZO TRIBOUILLARD / AFP) MADRID / PRAGUE / LISBON – The risk that European Union governments will not be able to spend the largest aid package in its history is growing as members struggle to meet deadlines imposed by the […]
A handout photograph released by the UK Parliament shows Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak speaking at the Despatch box during Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) in the House of Commons in London on Jan 11, 2023. (JESSICA TAYLOR / UK PARLIAMENT / AFP) LONDON – Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's government will on Monday announce new proposals […]
Chief of Staff of Ethiopian Armed Forces Field Marshall Birhanu Jula (left) and Head of the Tigray Forces Lieutenant General Tadesse Werede (right) exchange signed copies of an agreement, at Ethiopian peace talks in Nairobi, Kenya, Nov 12, 2022. (BRIAN INGANGA / AP) ADDIS ABABA – Tigray forces, who fought a two-year war against Ethiopia's […]
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 – Peru's top prosecutor's office on Tuesday said it has launched an inquiry into new President Dina Boluarte and members of […]
Rail workers that are members of the ASLEF union stand at a picket line outside Euston station while on strike, in London, Britain, Jan 5, 2023. (HENRY NICHOLLS / REUTERS) LONDON – The British government introduced legislation to parliament on Tuesday which would require key public services to maintain minimum safety levels during strike action […]
Ski centre on mountain Jahorina is seen in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina Jan 4, 2023. (KIRSTEN DONOVAN / REUTERS) LONDON/BRUSSELS — Record-high winter temperatures swept across parts of Europe over the new year, bringing calls from activists for faster action against climate change while offering short-term respite to governments struggling with high gas prices. Hundreds […]
ABUJA, NG, Jan 2, 2023 – (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Dr. Marliyyah A. Mahmood, Women In Tech and Project Manager for Startup AREWA, discusses how technology is enabling and enhancing women’s empowerment in Northern Nigeria. She emphasizes some of the fundamental advantages of social media technologies, such as giving women access to a virtual […]
Italian soldiers serving in a NATO-led international peacekeeping mission in Kosovo (KFOR) patrol near a road barricade set up in the divided town of Mitrovica on Dec 29, 2022. (STRINGER / AFP) MITROVICA, Kosovo – Kosovo re-opened its biggest border crossing with Serbia on Thursday, hours after protesting Serbs in its north promised to remove […]
Migrants eat and wait for help while camping on a street in downtown El Paso, Texas on Dec 18, 2022. (ANDRES LEIGHTON / AP) HOUSTON – The US state Texas on Monday deployed more than 400 National Guard troops and other personnel to El Paso, a city bordering Mexico, as the US Supreme Court temporarily […]