WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus looks on during a press conference at the World Health Organization's headquarters in Geneva, on Dec 14, 2022. (PHOTO / AFP) LONDON – The recent spread to mammals of H5N1 influenza – commonly known as bird flu – needs to be monitored, but the risk to humans remains low, the […]
This March 15, 2022, file photo provided by the Parcoy Municipality shows the path of a mudslide in Parcoy, Peru. At least 36 people were killed in Peru after a mudslide buried several communities in the province of Camana, authorities confirmed on Feb 6, 2023. (PHOTO / AP) LIMA – At least eight people were […]
In this file photo dated Mar 17, 2020, people walk past the Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen, Denmark. (PHOTO / XINHUA) COPENHAGEN — Thousands of people gathered in Copenhagen on Sunday to protest a bill put forward by the government to scrap a public holiday to help finance increased defense spending. The demonstration was organised […]
Pope Francis arrives to address the media while aboard the plane from Juba to Rome on Feb 5, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE — Pope Francis said on Sunday that laws criminalising LGBT people are a sin and an injustice because God loves and accompanies people with same-sex attraction. Francis, who made […]
Members of the Forensic Pathology Services stand near their vehicles on the scene of a mass shooting in Gqeberha, South Africa, on Jan 29, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) JOHANNESBURG – Gunmen killed eight people and wounded three others at a birthday party in South Africa's Eastern Cape province, police said, adding that manhunt was underway […]
In this Oct 30, 2022 photo, a boy fishes as police border guards on a boat patrol along the Evros River that forms a natural border between Greece and Turkey, on Sunday. The EU ministers recently discussed visa restrictions to repatriate more migrants non-eligible for asylum. (PHOTO / AP) STOCKHOLM – European Union migration ministers […]
People protest outside the Police Investigation Operations Center – DIRINCRI to demand the release of those arrested at the campus of the University of San Marcos in Lima on Jan 21, 2023. (ERNESTO BENAVIDES / AFP) LIMA – Peruvian police arrested over 200 people accused of illegally entering the campus of a major Lima university, […]
Federal Interventor Ricardo Cappelli (center) inspects military troops as they wait for a protest announced by supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro, in Brasilia, Brazil, on Jan 11, 2023. (GUSTAVO MORENO / AP) BRASILIA – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Thursday that security force members were complicit in letting an anti-government […]
Pedestrians pass a display in the window of a book shop in London, Jan 10, 2023. (KIRSTY WIGGLESWORTH / AP) LONDON – Britain's Prince Harry has hit back at "hurtful" responses to his record-selling memoir, saying he was particularly upset by the "lie" he had boasted that he had killed 25 people in Afghanistan when […]
Nigerian Railway Corporation personnel are seen on a platform as a train speeds by at the Idu Railway Station during the resumption of Abuja-Kaduna train railway operations in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital on Dec 5, 2022. (KOLA SULAIMON / AFP) YENAGOA, NIGERIA – Gunmen armed with AK-47 rifles have abducted more than 30 people from a […]
In this Feb 9, 2022 photo, a person holds a Puerto Rican flag in front of the Capitol building during a protest of teachers demanding salary increases and better working conditions, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. (RICARDO ARDUENGO / REUTERS) W;ASHINGTON – Puerto Rico's movement for greater self-government got a boost on Thursday in the […]
In this Oct 12, 2022 file photo, migrants sail after boarding a smuggler's boat on the beach of Gravelines, near Dunkirk, northern France, in an attempt to cross the English Channel. (SAMEER Al-DOUMY / AFP) DOVER, England – A small boat loaded with migrants heading for British shores from France capsized in the freezing waters […]
Buulaay Ibrahim (left), 75, an internally displaced person who fled her village due to an increase in violence, sits at Limaan Camp in Mogadishu on Dec 6, 2022 in front of her makeshift tent. (HASSAN ALI ELMI / AFP) MOGADISHU – More than 200,000 Somalis are suffering catastrophic food shortages and many are dying of […]
A girl watches as Afghan burqa-clad health workers administer polio vaccine drops to a child during a vaccination campaign in Bihsud district of Nangarhar province on October 17, 2022. (PHOTO / AFP) GENEVA / NEW YORK – The United Nations and partners on Thursday appealed for a record $51.5 billion in aid money for 2023, with […]
A man is tested for COVID-19 at a private health center in Harare, Zimbabwe, Feb 3, 2022. (TSVANGIRAYI MUKWAZHI / AP) HARARE / MOSCOW / OTTAWA – Zimbabwe's COVID-19 response chief coordinator, Agnes Mahomva, has warned that the country is not yet out of danger of a resurgence of the pandemic, amid concerns that people […]
In this photograph taken on October 31, 2022, people walk through a crowded commercial street in Chennai. India is projected to see an explosion in its urban population in the coming decades, but its cities already cannot cope and climate change will make living conditions harsher still. (ARUN SANKAR / AFP) SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt – […]
A Somali woman and children carry water at a camp for displaced people on the outskirts of Dollow, Somalia on Sept 20, 2022. (JEROME DELAY / FILE / AP) SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt – Issack Hassan lives in a migrant camp in Baidoa city in Somalia – one of more than a million people displaced since […]
People walk past a damaged minibus that was pulled out of a water canal following a crash in al-Dayris village near the Nile Delta city of Mansoura in the Dakahlia governorate, some 120Km north of the capital, on Nov 12, 2022. (KHALED DESOUKI / AFP) CAIRO – Nineteen people were killed and six others were […]
The shadows of synthetic macaws are cast on the pavement backdropped by a mural of a macaw as pedestrians wearing protective face masks walk past, in the Petare neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, June 5, 2020.(ARIANA CUBILLOS / AP) CARACAS – The Venezuelan government on Saturday lambasted the decision of the European Union (EU) to renew […]
East Africa among regions hit hardest, as hopes pinned on Egypt talks Maasai women gather to watch Maasai morans, or warriors, take part in an Olng'esherr ceremony at the foot of the Maparasha Hills, near Kajiado, in Kenya, Sept 23, 2020. (PHOTO / AP) With the desperation etched on her face, Elizabeth Kanini, a villager […]