People wait for COVID-19 vaccination at Soweto's Baragwanath hospital in South Africa on Dec 13, 2021. (JEROME DELAY / AP) ADDIS ABABA – The COVID-19 pandemic has brought into sharp focus the importance of having timely and reliable vital events data, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) said. According to the UNECA, the […]
Washington urged to stop interfering in other countries' affairs Active and retired public workers, including teachers, protest for better salaries and the rest of their vacation bonus which they say was paid partially, as they march to the Labor Ministry in Caracas, Venezuela, Aug 2, 2022. (ARIANA CUBILLOS / AP) Constant meddling by the United […]
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 – At least two police officers and one civilian died after a day of anti-government protests in Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, staff at the city's […]
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. (YASIN AKGUL / AFP) UNITED NATIONS – Under the Black Sea Initiative, 12 vessels have been authorized to depart the Ukrainian ports, a United Nations official coordinating the grain export deal […]
The river Rhine is pictured with low water in Cologne, Germany, Aug 10, 2022. (MARTIN MEISSNER / AP) BERLIN/LOBITH, Netherlands – Already bracing for recession and winter energy shortages, German businesses are grappling with the lack of another precious commodity: rain. Weeks of baking temperatures and scant rainfall this summer have drained the water levels […]
A firefighter sprays water at a burnt forest in Hostens, southwest France, July 21, 2022. (BOB EDME / AP) PARIS – Wildfires raged in southwestern France on Tuesday, destroying sixteen houses, burning 6,000 hectares and forcing the evacuation of almost 6,000 people in an area already hit last month by huge blazes. France, like the […]
The national Greek flag (R) and European Union flag flutter in the breeze in Athens, Greece on Oct 5, 2021. (David GANNON / AFP) ATHENS – Greece will exit the European Union's so-called enhanced surveillance framework on Aug 20, its finance minister said on Wednesday, a move that will allow the country greater freedom in […]
A health professional prepares a dose of a monkeypox vaccine at the Edison municipal vaccination centre in Paris on July 27, 2022. (ALAIN JOCARD / FILE / POOL VIA AP) LONDON – Health officials in Europe are discussing whether to follow a move by the United States to stretch out scarce monkeypox vaccine supplies, with […]
Election officials count votes at a polling station in Kilimera Primary School in Nairobi, Kenya on Aug 9, 2022. (MOSA'AB ELSHAMY / AP) NAIROBI – Preliminary results from Kenya's presidential election showed a tight race between the two main candidates vying to replace outgoing President Uhuru Kenyatta. The Tuesday election is an important test for […]
Ali Abdullahi Mohamed, a severely malnourished 27-month-old boy, is examined by a nurse for treatment in Banadir Maternity and Children Hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia on June 1, 2022. Four consecutive seasons of poor rains have left millions of drought-stricken people in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia facing starvation. (ED RAM / AFP) MOGADISHU – The number […]
A Venezuelan airline worker holds a banner with a hashtag message that reads in Spanish: "ReturnTheAirplane" during a march in Caracas, Venezuela on Aug 9, 2022. (JESUS VARGAS / AP) CARACAS – Thousands of Venezuelans marched through the streets of the capital Caracas on Tuesday to protest US-led sanctions and illegal seizures of the nation's financial […]
Former US president Donald Trump speaks at a rally on Aug 5, 2022, in Waukesha, Wisconsin. (MORRY GASH / AP) WASHINGTON – Former US president Donald Trump on Tuesday tried to turn the news that the FBI had searched his Florida estate to his benefit, citing the investigation in text messages and emails soliciting political […]
US President Joe Biden arrives for a signing ceremony for the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022, on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, on Aug 9, 2022. (MANDEL NGAN / AFP) WASHINGTON / LONDON / PRAGUE – US President Joe Biden continues to test negative for COVID-19 but is suffering its lingering […]
This 2003 electron microscope image shows mature, oval-shaped monkeypox virions (left) obtained from a sample of human skin associated. (CYNTHIA S. GOLDSMITH, RUSSELL REGNE / CDC via AP) BERLIN – Germany recorded its first case of monkeypox in a child, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for infectious diseases said on Tuesday. The 4-year-old infected girl […]
This handout video grab taken and released on Aug 9, 2022 by the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos shows the Soyuz-2.1b rocket carrying the Khayyam satellite blasting off from a launchpad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. (YURI KADOBNOV / AFP) MOSCOW – Russia launched an Iranian satellite into orbit on Tuesday from southern Kazakhstan, just three weeks […]
Union Jack flags are seen in front of the Elizabeth Tower, known as Big Ben, beside the Houses of Parliament in London on June 24, 2022. (FRANK AUGSTEIN / AP) LONDON – Prime Minister Boris Johnson came under heavy criticism on Monday for allowing a political vacuum at the heart of his government to threaten […]
A sign displays mask wearing information at Penn station in New York on Aug 2, 2021. (KENA BETANCUR / AFP) WASHINGTON / BERLIN – A group of 23 state attorneys general led by Florida told a federal court on Monday that the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lacks the legal authority to impose a nationwide […]
Union Jack flags are seen in front of the Elizabeth Tower, known as Big Ben, beside the Houses of Parliament in London on June 24, 2022. (FRANK AUGSTEIN / AP) LONDON – Prime Minister Boris Johnson came under heavy criticism on Monday for allowing a political vacuum at the heart of his government to threaten […]
Residents line up to vote at the Oltepesi Primary School in Kajiado County, Nairobi, Kenya, Aug 9, 2022. (BEN CURTIS / AP) NAIROBI – Millions of Kenyans started to cast their ballots for a new president, parliament and local authorities on Tuesday, live footage on local television stations showed. Veteran opposition leader Raila Odinga and […]
Bolsonaro gestures during the promotion ceremony of General Officers of the Armed Forces, at Planalto Palace in Brasilia, on Aug 4, 2022. (EVARISTO SA / AFP) RIO DE JANEIRO – Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro on Monday denied that he has any intention of carrying out a coup if he loses October's election, adding that he […]