Former US president Donald Trump announces a third run for president as he speaks at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., Nov 15, 2022. (REBECCA BLACKWELL / AP) SAN FRANCISCO – Meta announced on Wednesday that the company would restore former US president Donald Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts in the coming weeks, ending a two-year […]
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva speaks during a meeting with trade union representatives at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, Jan 18, 2023. (ADRIANO MACHADO / REUTERS) BRASILIA – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Wednesday his intelligence services had failed on Jan 8, when Brasilia buildings were stormed by […]
LONDON – A seven-year-old girl was left with life-threatening injuries after she and five others, including another child, were hurt in a drive-by shooting on Saturday near a church in London where a funeral was taking place, British police said. Detectives said the girl had been taken to hospital and remained in a life-threatening condition […]
A demonstrator reacts before security forces as people protest demanding the dissolution of Congress and democratic elections, in rejection of Dina Boluarte as Peru's president, after the ouster of President Pedro Castillo, in Lima, Peru, Jan 12, 2023. (SEBASTIAN CASTANEDA / REUTERS) LIMA – Thousands took to the streets of Peru's capital Lima on Thursday […]
A security guard looks at damages inside the Supreme Court building in Brasilia on Jan 10, 2023, two days after thousands of supporters of Brazil's ex-president Jair Bolsonaro raided federal buildings. (CARL DE SOUZA / AFP) WASHINGTON/BRASILIA – US and Brazilian lawmakers are looking for ways to cooperate on an investigation into violent protests that […]
People participate in a demonstration demanding the dissolution of Congress and to hold democratic elections, rather than recognize Dina Boluarte as Peru's President, after the ouster of former President Pedro Castillo, in Lima, Peru, Jan 4, 2023. (ANGELA PONCE / REUTERS) LIMA — Police used tear gas to disperse protesters trying to approach Peru's Congress […]
Grab taken from a handout video released by Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on his YouTube account on Nov 2, 2022, where he told his supporters that the world will not end on Jan 1 when rival Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva takes office, in Brasilia, on Dec 30, 2022. (HANDOUT / BRAZILIAN PRESIDENT JAIR BOLSONARO'S […]
Members of the Italian Armed Forces, part of the NATO peacekeepers mission in Kosovo, stand guard near a roadblock in Rudare, near the northern part of the ethnically-divided town of Mitrovica, Kosovo, Dec 28, 2022.( FLORION GOGA / REUTERS) PRISTINA — Kosovo closed its biggest border crossing on Wednesday after protesters blocked it on the […]
This handout picture distributed by the Peruvian Presidency press service shows Peru's President Dina Boluarte (left) posing with Alberto Otarola, her newly sworn chief of staff, during a swearing-in ceremony at the Palace of Government in Lima on Dec 21, 2022. (VICTOR GONZALES / PERUVIAN PRESIDENCY / AFP) LIMA/MEXICO CITY – Peru's President Dina Boluarte […]
The collapsed second-story porch of a house is seen after a strong 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of northern California, in Rio Dell, California, US Dec 20, 2022. (FRED GREAVES / REUTERS) RIO DELL, California – A powerful magnitude 6.4 earthquake jolted the extreme northern coast of California before dawn on Tuesday, crumpling homes […]
A person with a dog walks through frost and mist alongside a frozen lake in Bushy Park in London, Britain, Dec 11, 2022. (MAJA SMIEJKOWSKA / REUTERS) LONDON – A 6-year-old boy became the fourth to die after the children fell into an ice-covered lake in central England earlier this week, police said on Wednesday. […]
In this file photo dated Feb 7, 2017, a man carries a young girl on his shoulders as he walks down a flooded street in the center of Kinshasa after several districts of the city were flooded as a result of an abrupt rise in water levels caused by a violent storm. (JUNIOR KANNAH / […]
In this file photo dated Feb 7, 2017, a man carries a young girl on his shoulders as he walks down a flooded street in the center of Kinshasa after several districts of the city were flooded as a result of an abrupt rise in water levels caused by a violent storm. (JUNIOR KANNAH / […]
A general view of fire and smoke in Saint Helier following an explosion on the island of Jersey, Channel Islands Dec 10, 2022 in this still image obtained from a social media video. (DANIEL HUNT / VIA REUTERS) LONDON – Three people were killed and around a dozen others remain missing after an explosion early […]
Voting precinct signs are stored at the Leon County Supervisor of Elections office prior to the midterm election in Tallahassee, Florida, US, Oct 5, 2022. (Colin Hackley / Reuters) PHOENIX – Two days after Americans went to the polls, the political world remained on tenterhooks on Thursday, with both chambers of the US Congress up […]
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, Friday, June 5, 2020.(ARIANA CUBILLOS / AP) CARACAS – Venezuela's government rejected on Saturday a decision by the prosecutor of the International Criminal […]
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, Friday, June 5, 2020.(ARIANA CUBILLOS / AP) CARACAS – Venezuela's government rejected on Saturday a decision by the prosecutor of the International Criminal […]
Italian President Sergio Mattarella (second left) welcomes new Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni (center) as she arrives for the swearing-in ceremony of the new Italian Government at the Quirinal Palace in Rome on Oct 22, 2022. (FABIO FRUSTACI / ANSA / AFP) ROME – The new Italian government formed by appointed Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni was […]
Doctors walk inside the Ebola isolation section of Mubende Regional Referral Hospital, in Mubende, Uganda, Sept 29, 2022. In this remote Ugandan community facing its first Ebola outbreak, testing trouble has added to the challenges with symptoms of the Sudan strain of Ebola now circulating being similar to malaria. (HAJARAH NALWADDA / AP) KAMPALA – […]
Britain's Prime Minister Liz Truss holds a press conference in the Downing Street Briefing Room in central London on Oct 14, 2022, following the sacking of the finance minister in response to a budget that sparked markets chaos. (DANIEL LEAL / POOL / AFP) PORTLAND, Oregon — US President Joe Biden on Saturday called embattled […]