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, […]
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 […]
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) […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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. […]
Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari arrives for day six of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting at the Intare Conference centre in Kigali on June 25, 2022. (DAN KITWOOD / POOL / AFP) ABUJA – Nigerian opposition Senators pushed for President Muhammadu Buhari to face impeachment, 10-months before the end of his second term in office, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
A handout image made available by the Odessa City Council Telegram channel on July 24, 2022, shows Ukrainian firefighters battling a fire on a boat burning in the port of Odessa after missiles hit the port on July 23, 2022. (STR / ODESSA CITY COUNCIL TELEGRAM CHANNEL / AFP) KIEV / BEIJING – Ukraine will […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]