This July 25, 2022, photo shows abortion-rights protestors march between the Indiana Statehouse and the Indiana State Library where US Vice President Kamala Harris was meeting with Indiana legislators to discuss reproductive rights in Indianapolis. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) on Wednesday called for countries in the Americas to reinforce protections for women […]
A bartender works at a pub in Cambridge on Jan 24. British consumers are battling an escalating cost-of-living crisis. (PHOTO / REUTERS) LONDON — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Monday defended Brexit, insisting that leaving the European Union had brought significant achievements and offered a "huge opportunity", as the International Monetary Fund slashed the […]
In this photo taken on Jan 31, 2023, protesters clash with police on the Place Vauban in Paris during a rally on a second day of nationwide strikes and protests over the government's proposed pension reform. (PHOTO / AFP) PARIS — Huge crowds marched across France on Tuesday to say "non" to President Emmanuel Macron's […]
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. (PHOTO / POOL / AFP) LONDON – Three years after its departure from the European Union, Britain is yet to benefit from the […]
The Union Flag flaps in the wind outside the Houses of Parliament in London, Oct 24, 2022. (PHOTO / AP) British spies unlawfully retained people's intercepted data over almost five years, a tribunal said on Monday in a ruling that blamed “widespread corporate failure” at the domestic intelligence agency MI5 and the interior ministry. The […]
In this file photo taken on May 12, 2020 Healthcare workers wait for patients to be tested at a walk-in COVID-19 testing site in Arlington, Virginia. The White House said on Jan 30, 2023, that the national and public health emergencies declared just as the COVID-19 pandemic took grip three years ago will officially end […]
In this photo taken on July 30, 2022, children take refuge at a Catholic school in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, after escaping gang violence in the Cité Soleil area. More than 300 Haitian children try to forget, at least for a time, the gang violence that forced them to flee their homes. (PHOTO / AFP) UNITED NATIONS […]
In this photo taken on Jan 30, 2023, cars drive past by board depicting US President Joe Biden and reads: "The World of Brave People! Thank you for support!" in the town of Bucha, outside Kyiv, Ukraine. (PHOTO / AP) WASHINGTON — US President Joe Biden said on Monday that he won't approve sending F-16 […]
In this photo taken on Jan 9, 2023, Brazil's former president Jair Bolsonaro lies on his hospital bed in Kissimmee, Florida. (PHOTO / AFP) WASHINGTON — Former Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro has applied for a six-month tourist visa to remain in the United States, his lawyer said on Monday, despite calls for any US visas […]
In this file photo dated Jan 25, 2023, Finland's Foreign Affairs Minister Pekka Haavisto attends a joint press conference with Latvia's foreign affairs minister (unseen) after talks in Riga, Latvia. (PHOTO / AFP) HELSINKI – Finland is sticking to its plan to join NATO at the same time as Nordic neighbor Sweden, and hopes to […]
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (left) poses for a media with Chile's President Gabriel Boric during a ceremony at the La Moneda presidential palace in Santiago, Chile, Jan 29, 2023. (PHOTO / AP) SANTIAGO DE CHILE – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced a new, expanded commodities partnership with Chile on Sunday during a tour of South […]
In this photo dated Jan 24, 2023, former Conservative Party chairman Nadhim Zahawi leaves the Conservative Party head office in Westminster, central London. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak sacked Zahawi on Jan 29, 2023 after an investigation revealed he had committed a serious breach by not being open about a tax probe. (PHOTO / AP) […]
Demonstrators light a fire at the Añashuayco bridge, near the Rodriguez Ballon airport, in Arequipa, Peru, during a protest against the government of President Dina Boluarte and to demand her resignation on Jan 20, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) A man in Peru's capital Lima died on Saturday and others were hospitalized as nationwide clashes between […]
(Left to right) Italian multinational oil and gas company ENI's CEO Claudio Descalzi, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Libya's Tripoli-based Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibah and National Oil Corporation chief Farhat Bengdara attend an agreement-singing ceremony in the Libyan capital, on Jan 28, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) ROME/TRIPOLI – Italian energy company Eni and Libya's National Oil […]
This handout picture released by GP Canal news agency shows a bus accident in the Peruvian region of Piura, north of Lima, on Jan 28, 2023. (PHOTO / GP CANAL / AFP) At least 24 people died in northern Peru after a bus carrying 60 passengers plunged off a cliff in early on Saturday, police […]
This photo taken on March 10, 2022 shows the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia. (PHOTO / XINHUA) MOSCOW – The Latvian ambassador to Russia, Maris Riekstins, should leave Russia within two weeks, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Friday. Latvian Charge d'Affaires Dace Rutka was summoned to the ministry in protest over Latvia's decision to lower the […]
In this Aug 11, 2022 photo, Rwanda's Minister of Foreign Affairs Vincent Biruta speaks during a news conference with Secretary of State Antony Blinken (not in photograph) at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation in Kigali, Rwanda. (PHOTO / POOL / AP) KIGALI – Rwandan Minister of Foreign Affairs Vincent Biruta has accused […]
The body of a dead man lays on the ground as police secure the area in Algeciras, southern Spain, on Jan 25, 2023. Spain opened a terror probe on Jan 25 after a man wielding a bladed weapon stormed a church in southern Spain killing one and wounding several others, legal sources told AFP. (PHOTO […]
US President Joe Biden speaks about the continued support of Ukraine in the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on Jan 25, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) WASHINGTON – US President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that his administration will provide Ukraine with 31 US-made M1 Abrams tanks, which […]
In this handout photo taken from video released by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Jan 10, 2023, a sailor is on duty onboard of the Admiral Gorshkov frigate of the Russian navy. (RUSSIAN DEFENSE MINISTRY PRESS SERVICE VIA AP) MOSCOW – The Russian Defense Ministry said on Wednesday the frigate Admiral Gorshkov tested its […]