An employee of the Romanian grain handling operator Comvex oversees the unloading of Ukrainian cereals from a barge in the Black Sea port of Constanta, Romania, June 21, 2022. (VADIM GHIRDA / AP) UNITED NATIONS – UN aid chief Martin Griffiths said on Thursday he was hopeful that the first shipment of grain from a […]
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Colombia and Venezuela to appoint new ambassadors, rebuild ties
Alvaro Leyca (center), the designated foreign minister of Colombia appointed by next president Gustavo Preto, delivers a speech next to Venezuelan Foreign Minister Carlos Faria (left) and Tachira Governor Freddy Bernal (right), after a meeting at the border city of San Cristobal, Venezuela, on July 28, 2022. (JOHNNY PARRA / AFP) SAN CRISTOBAL, Venezuela – […]
US approves potential sale of F-35 fighters, munitions to Germany
In this Sept 19, 2019 photo, an F-35 fighter jet arrives at the Vermont Air National Guard base in South Burlington, Vermont. (WILSON RING / AP) WASHINGTON – The US State Department approved a possible foreign military sale to Germany of F-35 fighter jets, munitions and related equipment for an estimated cost of $8.4 billion, […]
Dead migrant seabirds wash up on Canada shore, avian flu suspected
Peruvian Booby (Sula variegata) nest on an islet across the bay of the summer resort town of Ancon, 35 kilometers north of Lima, as investigators from the Peruvian National Service of Natural Areas Protected by the State retrieve dead seabirds while assessing contamination levels and mortality rate of wildlife on the coast off Ancon on […]
Brazil grants permit to pave highway through heart of Amazon forest
Handout picture released by the Bahia State Government showing people trying to walk across a flooded stretch of the BR-415 highway that connect the cities of Ilheus and Itabuna, affected by heavy rains in the region, in Ilheus, south of Bahia State, Brazil, on December 27, 2021. (CAMILA SOUZA / BAHIA STATE GOVERNMENT / AFP) […]
Access to healthy environment now a universal human right
Members of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus and volunteers perform an environmental clean-up in the UN-enforced buffer zone separating the Republic of Cyprus and the Turkish-occupied northern part of the island, near Troulli about 17 kilometers north of Larnaca, on Nov 12, 2021. (ETIENNE TORBEY / AFP) UNITED NATIONS – The UN General […]
Former Republicans, Democrats form new 3rd US political party
People pass by US national flags in Washington, DC on Jan 9, 2021. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP) LOS ANGELES – Dozens of former Republican and Democratic officials announced on Wednesday a new national political third party to appeal to millions of voters they say are dismayed with what they see as America's dysfunctional two-party system. […]
Russia daily COVID-19 cases hit highest since April
A view of a COVID-19 vaccination center in Gostinny Dvor, a huge exhibition place in Moscow, Russia on July 12, 2021. (PAVEL GOLOVKIN / AP) WASHINGTON – Russia reported 11,515 new daily coronavirus cases on Thursday, authorities said, the highest such figure since April 13. Forty-one people in Russia died of coronavirus over the last […]
Debt shadow may hang over Kenya’s next president
Kenya's President, Uhuru Kenyatta delivers a speech during the 39th IGAD extraordinary summit in Nairobi on July 5, 2022. (TONY KARUMBA / AFP) NAIROBI – Kenya's economic output has more than doubled during President Uhuru Kenyatta's 10 years in office, but a debt binge that fueled growth and investment could cramp his successor's ability to […]
Italy’s conservatives strike deal over candidate for PM
Italy's Prime Minister Mario Draghi addresses senators on the government crisis following his resignations last week, at the Senate in Rome on July 20, 2022. (ANDREAS SOLARO / AFP) ROME- The party with the most votes in Italy's centre-right coalition will choose the prime minister if the bloc wins the coming election, the alliance said […]
Gas through Nord Stream 1 flows at reduced 20% capacity
This file photo taken on Nov 8, 2011 shows a view of the gas pipeline prior to an inaugural ceremony for the first of Nord Stream's twin 1,224 kilometre gas pipelines through the Baltic Sea, in Lubmin, northeastern Germany. (JOHN MACDOUGALL / AFP) BERLIN / MOSCOW – Natural gas deliveries from Russia to Germany via the […]
EU court upholds ban on Russia’s RT France
In this Jan 9, 2018 photo, Xenia Fedorova, chief executive of RT France, attends an interview with the Associated Press in Paris. (FRANCOIS MORI / AP) BRUSSELS – The European Court of Justice (ECJ) on Wednesday rejected a request by Russian state news network RT (Russia Today) France to lift a broadcasting ban it is […]
WHO: Monkeypox hits Europe, Americas hardest
Empty vials of vaccines against Monkeypox lie on a table after being used to vaccinate people at a medical center in Barcelona, Spain on July 26, 2022. (FRANCISCO SECO / AP PHOTO) GENEVA – Europe and the Americas have been affected the most by the monkeypox outbreak, Director General of the World Health Organization Tedros […]
Russia tells NASA space station pullout less imminent
This handout photograph taken on July 29, 2021 and released by the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos on July 30, 2021, shows the Russian Multipurpose Laboratory Module "Nauka" (Science) being docked next to the Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft on the International Space Station (ISS). (OLEG NOVITSKY / RUSSIAN SPACE AGENCY ROSCOSMOS / AFP) WASHINGTON – Russian space […]
Doctor: Biden tests negative for COVID-19 after treatment
US President Joe Biden delivers remarks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington DC on July 27, 2022. Biden has had two negative COVID-19 tests and no longer needs to isolate after recovering from infection, his White House Doctor Kevin O'Connor said Wednesday. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI / AFP) WASHINGTON – US President Joe […]
Türkiye opens coordination center for Ukraine grain exports
This photograph taken on July 27, 2022 shows a computer screen displaying the Black Sea at the opening of the Joint Coordination Centre (JCC) for Ukrainian grain exports in Istanbul on July 27, 2022. Türkiye formally opened a joint coordination center for Ukrainian grain exports under a UN-backed deal aimed at resuming shipments for the […]
New Tunisia constitution passed in vote with low turnout
President of the Independent Higher Authority for Elections, Farouk Bouasker, gives a press conference on the final result of the referendum on a draft constitution put forward by the country's president, in Tunis on July 26, 2022. (ANIS MILI / AFP) TUNIS – A new Tunisian constitution giving far more power to President Kais Saied […]
Greece, Saudi Arabia seal deal on data cable
Greek prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis greets Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman prior to their meeting at the prime minister's office in Athens on July 26, 2022. (YORGOS KARAHALIS / AFP) RIYADH/ATHENS – Greece and Saudi Arabia on Tuesday sealed a deal to lay an undersea data cable that will connect Europe with Asia and […]
At least 15 killed as anti-UN protests flare in east Congo
Residents protest against the United Nations peacekeeping force (MONUSCO) deployed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in Goma, July 25, 2022. (MOSES SAWASAWA / AP) GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo – Three United Nations peacekeepers and at least 12 civilians were killed during a second day of anti-UN protests in eastern Democratic Republic of […]
EU member states agree emergency gas curbs
The gas storage plant Reckrod is pictured near Eiterfeld, central Germany, July 14, 2022, after the Nord Stream 1 pipeline was shut down due to maintenance. European Union governments agreed on July 26, 2022 to ration natural gas this winter to protect themselves against possible supply cuts by Russia. (MICHAEL PROBST / AP, FILE) BRUSSELS […]