A health worker inoculates a child with a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19 during a vaccination campaign in Lima on Jan 25, 2022, amid the coronavirus pandemic. (ERNESTO BENAVIDES / AFP) ROME / BERLIN / HAVANA / LIMA – Peru registered 17,841 COVID-19 cases between June 19 and 25, an increase of 70 percent […]
In this file photo taken on June 6, 2022 Argentina's Economy Minister Martin Guzman (right) speaks next to President Alberto Fernandez as he presents a bill to create a tax on so-called "extraordinary profits" for big companies that earned more-than-expected due to the war in Ukraine, in Buenos Aires. (JUAN MABROMATA / AFP) BUENOS AIRES […]
A healthcare worker stands outside the emergency entrance of Vancouver General Hospital in Vancouver, Canada, on April 1, 2020. (LIANG SEN / XINHUA) TORONTO – Health authorities across Canada have cut the hours of hospital emergency departments and urgent care clinics in recent weeks, a move that in some cases may extend through the summer, […]
Scotland's First Minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon, is interviewed, on May 17, 2022, in Washington. (JACQUELYN MARTIN / AP PHOTO) LONDON – Voters in Scotland remain evenly split over whether or not they support independence from the rest of Britain, a poll published by the Sunday Times showed, days after the Scottish government set out […]
Soldiers take position during a simulated military excercise of the British Army Training Unit in Kenya (BATUK) together with the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) at the ol-Daiga ranch, high on Kenya’s Laikipia plateau on March 26, 2018. (TONY KARUMBA / AFP) LONDON – The British Army regained control of its Twitter and YouTube accounts on […]
Map of Copenhagen, Denmark, where deadly shots were fired in a mall Sunday. COPENHAGEN – Three people were killed and several more were wounded in a shooting at a shopping center in Copenhagen on Sunday, Danish police said, adding they had arrested a 22-year-old Danish man and charged him with manslaughter. The attack rocked Denmark […]
A worker of the Cremona hospital cleaning staff, wearing a personal protective equipment, walks past the COVID-19 intensive care unit of the Cremona hospital, in Cremona, northern Italy on Jan 11, 2022. (MIGUEL MEDINA / AFP) ROME / BERLIN / HAVANA – The number of active cases of coronavirus surpassed 1 million in Italy on Sunday, […]
A handout picture provided by the Tunisian Presidency Press Service on June 20, 2022 shows Sadok Belaid, head of Tunisia's constitution committee, submitting a draft of the new constitution to President Kais Saied (left) at the Carthage Palace in Tunis. (TUNISIAN PRESIDENCY / AFP) TUNIS – The head of Tunisia's constitution committee blasted a proposed […]
Argentina’s Economy Minister Martin Guzman speaks during the annual meeting of the Argentina Business Association in Buenos Aires on June 7, 2022. (JUAN MABROMATA / AFP) BUENOS AIRES – Argentina's economy minister Martin Guzman, the architect of a recent major debt deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), resigned on Saturday as deep splits emerged […]
US Marshals patrol outside the home of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, in Chevy Chase, Md, June 8, 2022. (JACQUELYN MARTIN / AP) WASHINGTON – The US Supreme Court’s top security officer has asked Maryland Governor Larry Hogan to enforce laws barring picketing outside the Maryland homes of high court justices, saying protests and “threatening […]
The Ukrainian flag flutters between buildings in the Ukrainian town of Borodianka in the Kyiv region on April 17, 2022. (SERGEI SUPINSKY / AFP) WASHINGTON – The United States on Friday announced a new round of security assistance to Ukraine that included advanced anti-aircraft and aerial defense systems as well as additional ammunition for advanced […]
This file photo dated April 20, 2021 shows an exterior view of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. (PETER DEJONG / FILE / AP) NEW YORK / BERLIN / ROME – Coronavirus vaccines tweaked to include the Omicron variant strain can improve protection when used as a booster, the European Medicines Agency and other […]
A mural of Australia's Julian Assange is seen in a laneway in Melbourne on Jan 5, 2021. (PHOTO / AFP) LONDON – WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange has appealed to the High Court in London to block his extradition to the United States to face criminal charges, his brother said on Friday, the latest step in […]
A girl looks at the portrait of Wilmer Tulul – killed inside a tractor-trailer in Texas after crossing from Mexico – at his house in Tzucubal village, Nahuala, Guatemala, on June 30, 2022. Melvin Guachiac and his cousin Wilmer were among the 53 migrants who died after they were abandoned in a suffocatingly hot tractor-trailer […]
A woman has her body temperature checked as she waits in line to receive an injection of Russia's Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination point in a public services office in Moscow, Russia, on Feb 10, 2021. (NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA / AFP) ROME / HELSINKI / JUBA / BERLIN / COPENHAGEN – Russia said on Friday it was […]
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during a media conference at a NATO summit in Madrid, Spain, June 30, 2022. (PAUL WHITE / AP) LONDON – Britain will boost defense spending to 2.5 percent of its gross domestic product by the end of this decade, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Thursday, making a new […]
Sudanese anti-military protesters march in demonstrations in the capital of Sudan, Khartoum, on June 30, 2022. (MARWAN ALI / AP PHOTO) KHARTOUM – At least eight protesters were shot dead in Sudan on Thursday, medics said, as large crowds took to the streets despite heavy security and a communications blackout to rally against the military […]
The Environmental Protection Agency headquarters in Washington, DC, on June 29, 2022. (STEFANI REYNOLDS / AFP) WASHINGTON – The US Supreme Court on Thursday imposed limits on the federal government's authority to issue sweeping regulations to reduce carbon emissions from power plants in a ruling that undermines President Joe Biden's plans to tackle climate change […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) and Indonesian President Joko Widodo shake hands after a joint news conference after their meeting in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia on June 30, 2022. (ALEXANDER ZEMLIANICHENKO, POOL / AP PHOTO) MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir Putin and visiting Indonesian President Joko Widodo on Thursday discussed the current situation in […]
A medical staffer takes a nasal swab for a COVID-19 rapid test at a testing site in Rome on Dec 30, 2021. (ANDREW MEDICHINI / AP) ROME / HELSINKI / JUBA / BERLIN / COPENHAGEN – Italy on Thursday updated coronavirus heath protocols in the workplace, as the main pandemic indicators in the country continue to rise. The […]