UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks to reporters at the UN headquarters in New York, Oct 3, 2022. (XIE E / XINHUA) UNITED NATIONS – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday called on all countries to make climate action the global priority. The UN chief told journalists at the UN headquarters in New York that all […]
Japan Prize 2020 laureate Swedish geneticist Svante Paabo poses with his trophy during the Japan Prize presentation ceremony in Tokyo, Japan April 13, 2022. Japan Prize this year awarded the winners including the years of 2020 and 2021. (EUGENE HOSHIKO, POOL VIA AP) STOCKHOLM/LONDON – Swedish geneticist Svante Paabo won the 2022 Nobel Prize in […]
Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng (left) and Britain's Prime Minister Liz Truss attend the opening day of the annual Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham, central England, on Oct 2, 2022. (OLI SCARFF / AFP) LONDON – The government of British Prime Minister Liz Truss was forced on Monday into a humiliating U-turn, reversing […]
Transition President Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno (second left) gestures during the opening ceremony of the national dialogue at the Jan 15 Palace in N'Djamena, on Aug 20, 2022. (AURELIE BAZZARA-KIBANGULA / AFP) N'DJAMENA – Chad has adopted resolutions that push back elections by two years and allow interim leader Mahamat Idriss Deby to stay in […]
Children take refuge at a Catholic school in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on July 30, 2022, after escaping gang violence in the Cité Soleil area. (RICHARD PIERRIN / AFP) PORT-AU-PRINCE – Haiti on Sunday said at least seven people have died of cholera in a surprise return of the disease that comes as the nation is paralyzed […]
Burkina Faso's new self-proclaimed leader captain Ibrahim Traore (center) attends a meeting in Ouagadougou on Oct 2, 2022. (PHOTO /AFP) OUAGADOUGOU – Burkina Faso's self-declared military leader Captain Ibrahim Traore said Sunday that the situation was under control after he announced the eviction of President Lieutenant Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba late Friday. "We would like […]
Medical workers treat patients in the COVID-19 ward at the US Department of Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare system campus and medical center in West Roxbury, Massachusetts on Jan 11, 2022. (JOSEPH PREZIOSO / AFP) BEIJING – Claims by some Western leaders that the COVID-19 pandemic "is over" has drawn criticism as the coronavirus continues to […]
Britain's Prime Minister Liz Truss arrives to attend the Conservative Party conference at the ICC, in Birmingham, England on Oct 1, 2022. (RUI VIEIRA / AP) LONDON – British Prime Minister Liz Truss tried to reassure her party and the public on Sunday by saying she should have done more to "lay the ground" for […]
JAKARTA, Oct 1, 2022 – (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – The third G20 Sherpa meeting in Yogyakarta has concluded with G20 member countries agreeing to seek solutions to myriad global problems. The 3rd Sherpa Meeting G20 Indonesia delegations travel around Borobudur Temple in Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia, Tuesday (29/9). (ANTARA PHOTO/Andreas Fitri Atmoko/POOL/rwa/FR) “During this […]
A photo taken on Sept 28, 2022 from an aircraft of the Swedish Coast Guard (Kustbevakningen) shows the release of gas emanating from a leak on the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, in the Swedish economic zone in the Baltic Sea. (PHOTO / SWEDISH COAST GUARD VIA AP) Russia and European nations have launched investigations […]
A health worker receives a dose of the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine in Francistown, Botswana, on March 26, 2021. (MONIRUL BHUIYAN / AFP) GABORONE / MOSCOW – Wearing masks is no longer mandatory in Botswana, announced an official press release on Wednesday. All other remaining COVID-19 protocols, like social distancing in schools and requirements for vaccination […]
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen arrives for the second day meeting of the European Union special summit in Brussels, Belgium, on Oct 2, 2020. (EUROPEAN UNION / HANDOUT VIA XINHUA) BRUSSELS / COPENHAGEN – The EU on Wednesday rushed to ramp up security safeguarding the bloc's energy infrastructure in response to what it called acts […]
A view of the door of 10 Downing Street in London, Feb 22, 2022. (DAVID CLIFF / AP) LIVERPOOL – "Speaking truth unto power" has long been the motto of Britain's civil service, but now some government workers charged with offering ministers impartial advice whatever their party are fearful of their political bosses and are […]
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen arrives for the second day meeting of the European Union special summit in Brussels, Belgium, on Oct 2, 2020. (EUROPEAN UNION / HANDOUT VIA XINHUA) COPENHAGEN – The government of Denmark considers the Nord Stream gas pipeline leaks "deliberate actions," Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said in Copenhagen on Tuesday. "It […]
Leader of Italian far-right party "Fratelli d'Italia" (Brothers of Italy), Giorgia Meloni acknowledges the audience after she delivered an address at her party's campaign headquarters overnight on Sept 26, 2022 in Rome, after the country voted in a legislative election. ROME – The right-wing alliance that won Italy's national election will usher in a rare […]
Photo taken on Aug 22, 2022 shows the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. (PHOTO / XINHUA) The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, or IAEA, on Monday called the safety of a shelled nuclear power plant in Ukraine a top priority as the nuclear watchdog's 175 member states gathered for talks in Vienna this week. […]
Jesus Rodrigues takes wood to his vehicle outside a Home Depot store in preparation for the arrival of Hurricane Ian on Sept 26, 2022, in Orlando, Florida. (PHELAN M. EBENHACK / AP) BATABANO, Cuba – The first strong winds ahead of Hurricane Ian began to pound Cuban coastal villages late on Monday as officials rushed […]
Hungary's Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto speaks with the media as he arrives for a meeting of EU Foreign Ministers at the Prague Congress Center in Prague, Czech Republic on Aug 30, 2022. (PETR DAVID JOSEK / AP) BUDAPEST – Sanctions on Russia are causing damage to Europe and it is a […]
CAMP BONDSTEEL, Kosovo – NATO has brought in reserve troops assigned to its KFOR peacekeeping mission to Kosovo for training, one of the mission commanders said, as a deadline approaches in a spat between the Serbian minority and the government that may spark fresh unrest. KFOR's regional commander east, Colonel Christopher Samulski, told reporters the […]
A Palestinian man Salim al-Jar, center, reacts after learning that his brother Wissam is one of those missing when a boat carrying migrants from Lebanon sank in Syrian waters, as he waits with relatives of other victims at Arida border crossing point between Lebanon and Syria, north Lebanon, Sept 23, 2022. (BILAL HUSSEIN / AP) […]