Destroyed buildings are seen after an earthquake in the city of Machala, Ecuador on March 18, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) QUITO – At least 14 people were killed in a strong earthquake that shook a coastal region of Ecuador and northern Peru on Saturday, causing structural damage to multiple homes, schools and medical centers. The […]
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Vershinin leaves after talks on Black Sea Grain Initiative at the United Nations in Geneva on March 13, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) ANKARA/UNITED NATIONS – A deal allowing the safe Black Sea export of Ukrainian grain was renewed on Saturday for at least 60 days – half the intended period […]
People hold a banner reading: "No to capitulation" as they march during a protest against the Serbian authorities and French-German plan for the resolution of Kosovo in Belgrade, Serbia, March 17, 2023. (PHOTO / AP) BELGRADE – Several thousand people gathered in Belgrade to protest against a Western-backed deal to normalize ties between Kosovo and […]
A fire burns during a demonstration on Place de la Concorde in Paris on March 17, 2023, the day after the French government pushed a pensions reform using the article 49.3 of the constitution. (PHOTO / AFP) PARIS – Riot police clashed with protesters on Friday evening in Paris as a new demonstration took place […]
This illustration photo show the Facebook page of former US president Donald Trump on a smartphone screen in Los Angeles, March 17, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) Former US president Donald Trump posted to YouTube and Facebook on Friday, in a return to the tech platforms he used to power his political rise until he was […]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (right) and Finland's President Sauli Niinisto speak to the media during a joint press conference at the presidential palace in Ankara, Türkiye, March 17, 2023. (PHOTO / AP) ANKARA – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan agreed Friday to ask the parliament to vote on Finland's NATO membership bid, but delayed […]
Prince Harry (right) and Meghan Markle, Duke and Duchess of Sussex visit the track and field event at the Invictus Games in The Hague, Netherlands, April 17, 2022. (PHOTO / AP) LONDON – Prince Harry will on Friday seek to win his libel claim against publisher Associated Newspapers without the case going to trial, his […]
Garbage is set on fire by protesters after a demonstration near Concorde square, in Paris, March 16, 2023. (PHOTO / AP) PARIS – French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday faced the gravest challenge to his authority since the so-called Yellow Vest protests after his decision to push through a contested pension overhaul without a vote […]
Planes of German airline Lufthansa are seen parked during a strike at Frankfurt Airport in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany, on Feb 17, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) BERLIN — Strikes at four German airports led to the cancellation of hundreds of flights on Friday in the latest bout of industrial action to disrupt travel plans […]
People receive food at a displacement center in Blantyre, southern Malawi on March 16, 2023. (PHOTO / AP) BLANTYRE – The last thing Lukia Akimu remembers is the surge of floodwater that hit her village near Mount Soche this week when Tropical Cyclone Freddy tore through southern Malawi. The next thing she knew, she woke […]
Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt is pictured through spring flowers as he arrives to meet children and staff at Busy Bees Battersea Nursery in south London, on March 15, 2023, after delivering his budget earlier in the day. (PHOTO / AFP) LONDON – British finance minister Jeremy Hunt has dropped a plan to […]
In this file photo dated Jul 25, 2017, people pray in front of a large statue of a Buddha in the 'biggest pagoda in Europe' in Evry, outside Paris, on Jul 25, 2017. (PHOTO / AFP) BRUSSELS — Belgium is expected to officially recognize Buddhism after the federal government approves a draft law on Friday, […]
Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso speaks during a press conference with his Costa Rican counterpart Rodrigo Chaves (not in photograph) at the Rafael Angel Calderon Guardia museum during Lasso's official visit to the country in San Jose, on Mar 1, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) QUITO — A group of opposition legislators in Ecuador has formally requested […]
A Yemeni man carries jerrycans to fill them with safe drinking water from a donated water-tank in the capital Sanaa on July 2, 2017. The bottled water market saw 73 percent growth from 2010 to 2020, and consumption is on track to increase from around 350 billion liters in 2021 to 460 billion liters by […]
In this file photo taken on Aug 12, 2022, people pose for photos in front the Congress in Bogota, Colombia. (PHOTO / AP) BOGOTA – Colombia's government presented a labor reform bill to Congress on Thursday that would reduce working hours and boost overtime pay, but critics say the measures could hurt job creation. The […]
In this file photo taken on Aug 12, 2022, people pose for photos in front the Congress in Bogota, Colombia. (PHOTO / AP) BOGOTA – Colombia's government presented a labor reform bill to Congress on Thursday that would reduce working hours and boost overtime pay, but critics say the measures could hurt job creation. The […]
The UN-chartered vessel MV Valsamitis is loaded to deliver 25,000 tonnes of Ukrainian wheat to Kenya and 5,000 tonnes to Ethiopia, at the port of Chornomorsk, east of Odessa on the Black Sea coast, on February 18, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) UNITED NATIONS – The United Nations backed Türkiye and Ukraine on Thursday by calling […]
French President Emmanuel Macron reacts during the National Roundtable on Diplomacy at the Foreign Ministry in Paris on Mar 16, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) PARIS — French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne used a special procedure to push an unpopular pensions bill through the National Assembly without a vote on Thursday, triggering boos and shouts of […]
An aerial view of the site where rescuers try to reach miners trapped after an explosion at a coal mine in Sutatausa municipality in the department of Cundinamarca, Colombia on March 15, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) BOGOTA – Ten miners reported missing after an explosion caused by accumulated gas in coal mines in central Colombia […]
Poland's defense minister Mariusz Blaszczak speaks to the press during a two-day meeting of the NATO alliance's defence ministers at the NATO Headquarter in Brussels on Feb 14, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) WARSAW – Poland has broken up a espionage network operating in the country, the defense minister said on Thursday, after private broadcaster RMF […]