People queue to pay their respects to late Queen Elizabeth II who's lying in state at Westminster Hall in London, Sept 14, 2022. (BERNAT ARMANGUE / AP) LONDON – Thousands of mourners took their places in a queue snaking around the center of London on Wednesday, recognizing without complaint that they might have to wait […]
File photo of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. (JIM WATSON / AFP) WASHINGTON – The Biden administration has decided to withhold US$130 million of foreign military aid to Egypt over its failure to fulfill human rights conditions, US officials said on Wednesday, but allowed some funds to go through due to its determination that […]
A woman walks next to election posters of Ulf Kristersson, leader of the Moderate Party in Sweden, and leader of the Social Democrats and Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson in Stockholm on Sept 8, 2022. (JONATHAN NACKSTRAND / AFP) STOCKHOLM – The head of Sweden's Moderate Party, Ulf Kristersson, said on Wednesday he would begin […]
Photo taken on Jan 22, 2020 shows an exterior view of the headquarters of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, Switzerland. (LIU QU/XINHUA) FRANKFURT/ LONDON / LISBON -The world has never been in a better position to end the COVID-19 pandemic, the head of the World Health Organization said on Wednesday, his most optimistic […]
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky gestures while addressing a press conference with Netherland's prime minister (not in the picture), following their talks in Kyiv on July 11, 2022. (SERGEI SUPINSKY / AFP) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's car was involved in a traffic accident in Kyiv, but he is not seriously hurt, his spokesman Serhii Nykyforov said […]
This photo shows the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, eastern France, on Feb 7, 2019. (FREDERICK FLORIN / AFP) PARIS – The European Court of Human Rights on Wednesday ruled that France must re-examine repatriation requests from two French women who traveled to Syria with their partners to join Islamic State, and the […]
European Union flags fly outside the European Commission building in Brussel on June 16, 2022. (KENZO TRIBOUILLARD / AFP) BRUSSELS – The European Union will propose measures to cap revenues from low-cost electricity generators and force fossil fuel firms to share the profits they make from soaring energy prices, European Commission President Ursula von der […]
People walk on a bridge next to the Eiffel Tower in Paris, Feb 9, 2022. (RAFAEL YAGHOBZADEH / FILE / AP) PARIS – Paris will switch off the Eiffel Tower's lights an hour earlier than normal, lower the water temperature in municipal pools and delay heating public buildings to save energy this winter, the city's […]
A 6 year-old child is comforted by her mother as she receives her first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine by a medical assistant at the Child Health Associates office in Novi, Michigan on Nov 3, 2021. (JEFF KOWALSKY / AFP) WASHINGTON / COPENHAGEN – Americans will have to pay for COVID-19 vaccines and treatments […]
The first UN-chartered vessel MV Brave Commander loads more than 23,000 tonnes of grain to export to Ethiopia, in Yuzhne, east of Odessa on the Black Sea coast, on Aug 14, 2022. (OLEKSANDR GIMANOV / AFP) LONDON/UNITED NATIONS – The United Nations is trying to broker a resumption of Russian ammonia exports through Ukraine, a […]
In this April 23, 2020 file photo, a sign is seen by the entrance of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia. (TAMI CHAPPELL / AFP) LOS ANGELES – The United States now joins a list of about 30 other countries with circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus (cVDPV) identified by the World Health Organization, […]
Volker Perthes, UN Special Representative to Sudan and head of the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan, speaks during a meeting of representatives of the tripartite mechanism in the Sudanese capital Khartoum on June 8, 2022. (ASHRAF SHAZLY / AFP) UNITED NATIONS – The top UN envoy for Sudan on Tuesday saw an […]
A child walks by as women sit in the camp for internally displaced people of Farburo 2 in the village of Adlale, near the city of Gode, Ethiopia, on April 6, 2022. (EDUARDO SOTERAS / AFP) JOHANNESBURG – Africa is losing 5 percent to 15 percent of its per capita economic growth due the effects […]
500,000 sidelined by COVID-19, with effects to haunt more, study warns Restaurants, such as this McDonald's outlet in Garden Grove, California, on July 8, are among US businesses needing more workers. (ROBYN BECK / AFP) The US labor force has lost about 500,000 workers due to illnesses related to COVID-19 and even more people may […]
Aerial view of the San Rafael Glacier in the region of Aysen, southern Chile, on Feb 13, 2022. (PABLO COZZAGLIO / AFP) SANTIAGO – Higher temperatures and rainfall that weaken ice walls caused part of a hanging glacier to break off at a national park in Chile's Patagonia region in an event captured on video […]
The hearse carrying the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II arrives at Buckingham Palace, London, Sept 13, 2022, from where it will rest overnight in the Bow Room. (GARETH FULLER / POOL PHOTO VIA AP) LONDON / BELFAST – King Charles and members of the royal family received the coffin of the late Queen Elizabeth at […]
The first UN-chartered vessel MV Brave Commander loads more than 23,000 tonnes of grain to export to Ethiopia, in Yuzhne, east of Odessa on the Black Sea coast, on Aug 14, 2022. (OLEKSANDR GIMANOV / AFP) LONDON/UNITED NATIONS – The United Nations is trying to broker a resumption of Russian ammonia exports through Ukraine, a […]
Aerial view of the San Rafael Glacier in the region of Aysen, southern Chile, on Feb 13, 2022. (PABLO COZZAGLIO / AFP) SANTIAGO – Higher temperatures and rainfall that weaken ice walls caused part of a hanging glacier to break off at a national park in Chile's Patagonia region in an event captured on video […]
In this April 23, 2020 file photo, a sign is seen by the entrance of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia. (TAMI CHAPPELL / AFP) LOS ANGELES – The United States now joins a list of about 30 other countries with circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus (cVDPV) identified by the World Health Organization, […]
This July 3, 2020 photo, shows a sign of the World Health Organization (WHO) at their headquarters in Geneva, amidst the COVID-19 outbreak, caused by the novel coronavirus. (Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP) COPENHAGEN – At least 17 million people in the World Health Organization European Region experienced the post-COVID-19 condition, or long COVID, in the […]