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 […]
A pharmacist administers a dose of Imvanex, a vaccine to protect against Monkeypox virus, at a pharmacy in Lille, northern France, on Aug 10, 2022. (FRANCOIS LO PRESTI / AFP) GENEVA – The World Health Organization has announced new names for variants of the monkeypox virus that are currently in circulation. This is to avoid […]
This photograph taken on July 31, 2022 shows a grain combine harvester collecting wheat near Novoazovsk, Ukraine. (PHOTO/AFP) KYIV – The first Africa-bound grain ship since the Russia-Ukraine conflict in February docked in Pivdennyi port on Friday, Ukraine's infrastructure minister said. ALSO READ: Refused by buyer, first Ukraine grain vessel docks in Türkiye "The cargo […]
Sierra Leone's President Julius Maada Bio arrives for an EU Africa summit at the European Council building in Brussels on Feb 17, 2022. (JOHN THYS / POOL PHOTO VIA AP) FREETOWN – Sierra Leone's president, Julius Maada Bio, said on Friday that this week's anti-government protests, which led to the deaths of six police officers […]
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador speaks during a joint press conference offered with his Salvadoran counterpart Nayib Bukele (out of frame) at the Presidential House in San Salvador on May 6, 2022. (MARVIN RECINOS / AFP) MEXICO CITY – President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is facing a flood of criticism after Mexico's navy lent […]
A healthcare worker dons a bouffant cap as staff treat patients suffering from coronavirus disease at Humber River Hospital's Intensive Care Unit, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on April 29, 2021. (COLE BURSTON / AFP) OTTAWA – The Public Health Agency of Canada on Friday confirmed 25,204 new COVID-19 cases for the week of July 31 […]
Emergency service personnel stand by near the scene of a shooting in Cetinje, in Montenegro, on Aug 12, 2022. (SAVO PRELEVIC / AFP) CETINJE, Montenegro – Eleven people, including two children and a gunman, were killed in a mass shooting in Montenegro on Friday, and six others were injured, a state prosecutor told Vijesti TV […]
Neighbors from across the street look on as local police and the FBI block the area around the home of Hadi Matar on Morningside Avenue on Aug 12, 2022, in Fairview, New Jersey. Police identified Matar, 24, as the man who rushed a stage in western New York and stabbed Salman Rushdie, whose novel "The […]
An aerial view of former US president Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate is seen, Aug 10, 2022, in Palm Beach, Florida. (STEVE HELBER/AP) FBI agents in this week's search of former US President Donald Trump's Florida home removed 11 sets of classified documents including some marked as top secret, the Justice Department said on Friday, while […]
A picture shows a woman walking in front of the hospital in Gao, Mali on Oct 14, 2020. (MICHELE CATTANI / UNOCHA) GENEVA – UN humanitarian projects face a record funding gap this year, with only a third of the required $48.7 billion secured so far as global needs outpace pledges, a spokesman for the […]
A general view of the city of Hargeisa, Somaliland, on Sept 18, 2021. (EDUARDO SOTERAS / AFP) MOGADISHU – At least five people were killed and 100 injured in Somalia's breakaway Somaliland region when security forces clashed with protesters demanding presidential elections be held in November, a regional leader said late on Thursday. Somaliland broke […]
An elderly woman walks in a street of Severodonetsk, in Donbass region, on April 13, 2022. (RONALDO SCHEMIDT / AFP) MOSCOW / MINSK – Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev paid a visit to Donbass on Thursday to explore measures to ensure the region's security and normalize life there. Medvedev wrote on […]
A silhouette of a firefighter is pictured during a wildfire in Manteigas, central Portugal, on Aug 10, 2022. (PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA / AFP) HOSTENS, France – European nations sent firefighting teams to help France tackle a "monster" wildfire on Thursday, while forest blazes also raged in Spain and Portugal and the head of the […]
This March 6, 2020 file photo, shows the headquarters of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. (RON HARRIS / AP) The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will no longer recommend quarantines or test-to-stay programs at schools or daycare centers for people exposed to COVID-19, the agency said in updated […]
The Sierra Leone-flagged cargo ship Razoni sails under Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge after being inspected in Istanbul, Türkiye, on Aug 3, 2022. (EMRAH GUREL / AP) ISTANBUL – The first grain ship to depart from Ukraine under a UN-brokered deal docked in Türkiye on Thursday after 11 days at sea, Refinitiv data showed, and the […]
This handout photo taken from video and released by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Aug 7, 2022, shows the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station in southeastern Ukraine which is now under Russian military control. (RUSSIAN DEFENSE MINISTRY PRESS SERVICE VIA AP, FILE) UNITED NATIONS/KYIV – The UN chief said on Thursday that he is "gravely […]
A Russian military convoy is seen on the road toward the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station, in Enerhodar, Zaporizhzhia region, in territory under Russian military control, southeastern Ukraine, on May 1, 2022. (PHOTO / AP) BEIJING – The Ukrainian military forces said on Wednesday that they hit a key bridge near the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant […]
In this file photo dated March 10, 2014, Brazilian scientists work in front of the Brazilian Comandante Ferraz Antartic station. (VANDERLEI ALMEIDA / AFP) LOS ANGELES – Antarctica's coastal glaciers are shedding icebergs more rapidly than nature can replenish the crumbling ice, doubling previous estimates of losses from the world's largest ice sheet over the […]
Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves Robles speaks during a plenary session at the Summit of the Americas on June 10, 2022, in Los Angeles. (MARCIO JOSE SANCHEZ / AP) SAN JOSE – Costa Rica formalized its request to join a trade partnership of 11 countries across Asia, Australia and the Americas, President Rodrigo Chaves announced […]