Armed Secret Service agents stand outside an entrance to former US president Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate late on Aug 8, 2022, in Palm Beach, Florida. (TERRY RENNA / AP) WASHINGTON – The US Justice Department on Monday said it opposes unsealing the affidavit that prosecutors used to obtain a federal judge's approval to search former […]
A flag is seen during a protest in front of the British embassy to demand the freedom of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, in Mexico City on Jan 4, 2021. (Pedro PARDO / AFP) WASHINGTON – A group of journalists and lawyers sued the CIA and its former director Mike Pompeo over allegations the intelligence agency […]
Vials of the JYNNEOS Monkeypox vaccine are prepared at a pop-up vaccination clinic in Los Angeles, California, on Aug 9, 2022. (PATRICK T. FALLON / AFP) LOS ANGELES – Monkeypox cases in the United States have kept climbing rapidly, topping over 11,000 cases, while media and experts have been blaming the Biden administration's response to […]
People walk along an embankment of the Moskva River with the Russian Defense Ministry on the background in Moscow on Feb 22, 2022. (DIMITAR DILKOFF / AFP) MOSCOW – An RC-135 reconnaissance plane of the British Royal Air Force illegally crossed Russia's state border in the Arctic area of Cape Svyatoy Nos, the Russian Defense […]
A man wears a face mask as he walks in Piccadilly Circus, in London on Oct 19, 2021. (ALBERTO PEZZALI / AP) LONDON / WASHINGTON / PRAGUE – Britain, the first country to approve a coronavirus vaccine in late 2020, has now also given the first green light to a variant-adapted shot that targets both […]
William Ruto(left), and his deputy Rigathi Gachagwa, show the certificate after the announcement in the presidential race at the Centre in Bomas, Nairobi, Kenya, on Aug 15, 2022. (SAYYID ABDUL AZIM / AP) NAIROBI – Kenya's Deputy President William Ruto has won the presidential election, the electoral commission chairman announced on Monday evening. The Independent […]
A protester holds a placard as she stands outside the Home Office in central London on June 13, 2022, to demonstrate against the UK government's intention to deport asylum-seekers to Rwanda. (NIKLAS HALLE'N / AFP) LONDON – Housed in a detention center in southern England, Aladeen says he risked his life to travel thousands of […]
Turkish-flagged ship Polarnet carrying tons of grain from Ukraine sails along the Bosphorus Strait past Istanbul on Aug 7, 2022, after being officially inspected. ISTANBUL – The first ship carrying Ukrainian wheat to be exported under a UN-brokered deal arrived in Istanbul on Sunday, the Joint Coordination Centre based in the Turkish city, said. The […]
Hadi Matar, 24 (center) arrives for an arraignment in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, New York on Aug 13, 2022. (GENE J. PUSKAR / AP) Salman Rushdie, the acclaimed author who was stabbed repeatedly at a public appearance in New York state on Friday, 33 years after Iran's then-supreme leader called for him to […]
Pedestrians walk in a street next to a billboard of Kenya's Deputy President William Ruto and presidential candidate for the United Democratic Alliance (UDA) and Kenya Kwanza political coalition, in Eldoret, on Aug 13, 2022. (SIMON MAINA / AFP) NAIROBI – Kenya's Deputy President William Ruto has edged ahead in a tight presidential race, according […]
JK Rowling poses for photographers upon arrival at the World premiere of the film "Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore" in London on March 29, 2022. (SCOTT GARFITT / AP) LONDON – Scotland's police said on Sunday they are investigating a report of an "online threat" made to the author JK Rowling after she tweeted […]
Egyptian mourners react during the funeral of victims killed in Cairo Coptic church fire, at the church of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Giza Governorate on Aug 14, 2022. (KHALED DESOUKI / AFP) CAIRO – An electrical fire swept through an Egyptian Coptic Christian church during Mass on Sunday, causing a stampede and killing […]
Katherine Sofoluke holding her dog George in her garden in Beckenham, Greater London, Aug 13, 2019. (NATASHA LIVINGSTONE / AP) LONDON – Stood on her hind legs to greet any prospective owner who might approach her glass-doored kennel, Harriet is a black English cocker spaniel abandoned as a deepening cost-of-living crisis pushes growing numbers of […]
In this file photo taken on Aug 7, 2022, a man takes a picture as the Glory bulk carrier makes its way from the port in Odesa, Ukraine. According to Ukraine's Ministry of Infrastructure, the ship under the Marshall Islands' flag is carrying 66 thousand tons of Ukrainian corn. (NINA LYASHONOK / AP) ODESA, Ukraine […]
In this file photo taken on Feb 20, 2022 A general view of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) in Guba, Ethiopia. (AMANUEL SILESHI / AFP) ADDIS ABABA – Ethiopia announced the successful completion of the third filling of its mega-dam on the Blue Nile. "It is with great pleasure, I announce the successful completion […]
This file photo taken on Aug 2, 2018 shows a German soldier from the parachutists detachment of the MINUSMA (United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali) searching for IED (improvised explosive device) during a patrol on the route from Gao to Gossi, Mali. (SEYLLOU / AFP) DAKAR – Troop rotations by the UN peacekeeping […]
Recently elected MPs and governors from Azimio party, led by presidential candidate Raila Odinga, gather at their campaign headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya, Aug 13, 2022. (MOSA'AB ELSHAMY / AP) NAIROBI – Veteran opposition leader Raila Odinga led Kenya's presidential race, official election results showed on Saturday, pushing Deputy President William Ruto into second place. With […]
Hadi Matar, 24, center, listens to his public defense attorney Nathaniel Barone, left, addresses the judge while being arraigned in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, NY, Aug 13, 2022. (GENE PUSKAR / AP) Acclaimed author Salman Rushdie remained hospitalized on Saturday with serious injuries a day after he was repeatedly stabbed at a public […]
Peruvian President Pedro Castillo delivers a speech during a meeting with members of the self-defense committees, the so called "peasant patrols" who act as law-and-order enforcers in parts of rural Peru, at the Government Palace in Lima on Aug 10, 2022. (ERNESTO BENAVIDES / AFP) LIMA – The governments of Mexico, Argentina, Ecuador and Bolivia […]
A pedestrian, wearing a mask with the italian flag on it, stands in a street of Rome on Dec 23, 2021. (FILIPPO MONTEFORTE / AFP) ROME – Italy is emerging as a hotspot in Europe for the new outbreak of the West Nile virus, as the death toll on Friday has reached 11 in the […]