The Panama-flagged Navi Star carrying 33,000 tonnes of grain, arrives at the Foynes Port in County Limerick, Ireland, on Aug 20, 2022 after leaving southern Ukraine's main port of Odessa two weeks ago. (LIAM BURKE / PRESS 22 / AFP) KIEV – Ukraine's Black Sea ports have shipped 9 million tons of foodstuffs under a […]
A thermoelectric power station works near the frozen Moskva river in central Moscow, Russia on March 11, 2021. (YURI KADOBNOV / AFP) PARIS – Today's energy crisis is causing profound and long-lasting changes that have the potential to hasten the transition to a more sustainable and secure energy system, according to World Energy Outlook 2022 […]
Smoke comes out of a steam pipe across from Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City Oct 24, 2022. (TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP) NEW YORK – Climate activists from multiple non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are implementing week-long protests against climate change and inequality ahead of the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Sandy. Activists briefly shut […]
North Macedonia's Prime Minister Dimitar Kovacevski (right) shakes hand with President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen after they delivered a press conference in Skopje, on Oct 26, 2022. (ROBERT ATANASOVSKI / AFP) SKOPJE – The European Union (EU) will provide 500 million euros ($504 million) in grants for the Western Balkan countries […]
Photo taken on Oct 26, 2022 shows a view of a UN Security Council meeting on the situation in the Great Lakes region at the UN headquarters in New York. (ESKINDER DEBEBE / UN PHOTO via XINHUA) UNITED NATIONS – It is only through coordinated, coherent and harmonious action that the Great Lakes nations can […]
People walk amid a traffic jam during a public transport strike for the high price of oil derivates, in the southern outskirts of Tegucigalpa, on April 7, 2022. (ORLANDO SIERRA / AFP) BUENOS AIRES – Foreign ministers and other top officials from Latin America and the Caribbean on Wednesday agreed on the urgent need to […]
Medical workers treat patients in the COVID-19 ward at the US Department of Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare system campus and medical center in West Roxbury, Massachusetts on Jan 11, 2022. (JOSEPH PREZIOSO / AFP) NEW YORK / MOSCOW – The United States could very well face what some doctors have dubbed a "tripledemic" this winter, […]
In this screenshot taken in Paris on Oct 26, 2022 French President Emmanuel Macron (right) speaks during the TV show "L'evenement", which is airing on the national television France 2. (LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP) PARIS – French President Emmanuel Macron pledged on Wednesday to "never leave the French without a solution" in the face of […]
Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic poses for a photograph during an interview with Reuters in Belgrade, Serbia, Jan 11, 2022. (ZORANA JEVTIC / REUTERS) BELGRADE – The Serbian parliament elected the new government led by Prime Minister Ana Brnabic here on Wednesday. Brnabic vowed that Serbia will continue with its European integration process, while also […]
This handout photo taken on Sept 28, 2022 from an aircraft of the Swedish Coast Guard (Kustbevakningen) shows the release of gas emanating from a leak on the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, in the Swedish economic zone in the Baltic Sea. (HANDOUT / SWEDISH COAST GUARD / AFP) STOCKHOLM – The Swedish Navy said […]
Water steam rises from the cooling towers of the coal-fired power station of German energy giant RWE in Neurath, western Germany, on March 15, 2021. (PHOTO / AFP) BRUSSELS – The European Commission on Wednesday adopted three proposals aimed at improving air, water and wastewater quality in the European Union (EU). According to the proposal, […]
In this handout photo taken from video released by the Roscosmos State Space Corporation on Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022, the Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket with the Progress MS-21 spacecraft blasts off at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan on Oct 26, 2022. (ROSCOSMOS STATE SPACE CORPORATION VIA AP) VLADIVOSTOK – Russia's Soyuz-2.1a rocket has […]
People pass by a house with a Cuban flag hanged on its balcony in Havana, on Oct 24, 2022. (YAMIL LAGE / AFP) HAVANA – For Sandra Cruz, a civil engineer from the Havana district of Marianao, the intensification of the US trade embargo has led to a rising cost of living. "The US unilateral […]
Ukraine's Minister of Communities and Territories Development Oleksiy Chernyshov addresses a breakout session during the Ukraine Recovery Conference URC in Lugano on July 4, 2022. (ALESSANDRO DELLA VALLE / POOL / AFP) KIEV / MOSCOW – Ukraine needs 4 billion euros (about $3.97 billion) to go through the winter cold season, the Interfax-Ukraine news agency […]
This handout picture released by the Rapanui Municipality shows Moais – stone statues of the Rapa Nui culture – affected by a fire at the Rapa Nui National Park in Easter Island, Chile, on Oct 6, 2022. (RAPANUI MUNICIPALITY / AFP) SANTIAGO – A forest fire on Chile's Easter Island in early October damaged at […]
Italy's new Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni gestures as she adresses the parliament, ahead of a confidence vote at Montecitirio palace in Rome on October 25, 2022. (FILIPPO MONTEFORTE / AFP) ROME – The new Italian cabinet led by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni won the confidence of the lower house of parliament on Tuesday, with 235 […]
People make their way through Times Square, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Manhattan, New York City, US, May 07, 2021. (EDUARDO MUNOZ / REUTERS) LOS ANGELES / WASHINGTON / NEW YORK – Respiratory viruses are spreading at high levels in the United States as temperatures begin to drop, causing the surge of pediatric […]
UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi speaks at a press conference in Nairobi, Kenya, Oct 25, 2022. (BRIAN INGANGA / AP) GENEVA – The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi on Tuesday called on world leaders to spare no efforts in assisting countries in the Horn of Africa to break the cycle […]
Children play in the water of a fountain, as the air temperature exceed 42 degrees Celsius, in Nantes, France on July 18, 2022. (LOIC VENANCE / AFP) UNITED NATIONS – Hot weather has become a health risk for many nations, but new data shows that almost every child on earth will be affected by heatwaves […]
Britain's newly appointed Prime Minister Rishi Sunak waves as he poses outside to door to 10 Downing Street in central London, on Oct 25, 2022, after delivering his first speech as prime minister. (DANIEL LEAL / AFP) LONDON – Britain's new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Tuesday pledged to "fix the mistakes" made by the Truss […]