Oil pumping jacks, also known as "nodding donkeys", operate in an oilfield near Neftekamsk, in the Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia, on Nov 19, 2020. (ANDREY RUDAKOV / BLOOMBERG) WASHINGTON – Finance ministers of the Group of Seven countries have agreed to impose a price cap on Russian oil, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in […]
In this undated photo, customers at the Mikkeller's Warpigs, a craft brewpub in Copenhagen's former Meatpacking District show the opening page of their "Corona pass,” an app on their mobile phone that shows the result of recent antigen tests for COVID-19, as they order drinks. (TOM LITTLE / AFP) COPENHAGEN / LISBON / OTTAWA – […]
An aerial view of former US president Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate is seen, Aug 10, 2022, in Palm Beach, Florida. (STEVE HELBER/AP) WASHINGTON – The FBI recovered more than 11,000 government documents and photographs during its Aug 8 search at former US president Donald Trump's Florida estate, as well as 48 empty folders labeled as […]
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) MOSCOW – Russia's largest gas producer Gazprom announced Friday that it had stopped […]
Photo taken on Aug 22, 2022 shows the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. (PHOTO/XINHUA) VIENNA – International Atomic Energy Agency Director-General Rafael Grossi said Friday that two of the agency's experts would remain permanently at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine. Grossi told reporters upon arriving in Vienna after a visit to the facility that […]
In this photo taken on March 30, 2007, a US Army Special Forces Ranger attends a class on combatting terrorism at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York. (DON EMMERT / AFP) WASHINGTON – The US military experienced its highest recorded level of sexual assault among women last year, in findings the […]
Argentina's Vice President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner addresses supporters during a demonstration near her home, in Buenos Aires, on Aug 27, 2022. (LUIS ROBAYO / AFP) BUENOS AIRES – Argentina's Vice President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner was unharmed on Thursday when a man with a loaded gun tried to shoot her but the gun did […]
In this file photo taken on Aug 22, 2022 Angolan opposition party National Union for the Total Independence of Angola leader and presidential candidate, Adalberto Costa Junior, gestures as he delivers a speech during the UNITA final campaign rally ahead of general elections, in Luanda. (JOHN WESSELS / AFP) LISBON – Angola's main opposition party […]
This file photo taken on June 11, 2021 shows the entrance of the European Medicines Agency headquarters in Amsterdam. (FRANCOIS WALSCHAERTS / AFP) LONDON – The European Medicines Agency on Thursday backed the use of Novavax's COVID-19 shot as a booster for adults, ahead of an anticipated rise in infections this winter. The EMA's recommendation is […]
Photo taken on Aug 22, 2022 shows the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. (PHOTO/XINHUA) KYIV – International Atomic Energy Agency Director-General Rafael Grossi and some members of his delegation left the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (NPP) in southern Ukraine on Thursday, the country's state-run nuclear energy operator Energoatom said. "Currently, there are five representatives of the […]
People wait for COVID-19 testing in the Queens borough of New York, the United States, Dec 29, 2021. (PHOTO/XINHUA) GENEVA – The number of COVID-19 cases worldwide has surpassed 600 million, according to the latest data from the World Health Organization (WHO). As of Thursday, WHO reported that there have been 600,555,262 confirmed COVID-19 cases […]
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Rafael Grossi speaks to media in Zaporizhzhia on Sept 1, 2022, as UN inspectors prepare to head to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. (GENYA SAVILOV / AFP) ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine – A team of UN experts arrived at Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia atomic plant complex on Thursday to assess the risk of a radiation […]
A young man walks past a tank said to have belonged to Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) rebels near Debre Tabor, on Dec 6, 2021. (SOLAN KOLLI / AFP) NAIROBI – Ethiopian and Eritrean government forces launched an attack in Ethiopia's northern region of Tigray on Thursday, targeting Tigrayan forces, a Tigrayan military spokesperson said, […]
Photo taken on Jan 22, 2020 shows an exterior view of the headquarters of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, Switzerland. (LIU QU / XINHUA) COPENHAGEN — The World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe called for urgent strategies and tools on Tuesday to control and eradicate COVID-19, monkeypox and polio. “With autumn and […]
Aerial view of a burnt area in the Amazon rainforest, near the Lago do Cunia Extractive Reserve, on the border of the states of Rondonia and Amazonas, northern Brazil, on Aug 31, 2022. (DOUGLAS MAGNO / AFP) SAO PAULO – Fires in Brazil's Amazon rainforest surged in August to the highest for the month since […]
Food and Drug Administration building is shown Thursday, Dec 10, 2020 in Silver Spring, Md. (MANUEL BALCE CENETA / AP) NICOSIA -The US Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday authorized updated COVID-19 booster shots from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna that target the dominant BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron subvariants, as the government prepares for a broad fall […]
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Rafael Grossi (right) talks to Ukainian Minister of Energy German Galushchenko (left) after the arrival of the IAEA inspection mission to Zaporizhzhia, on Aug 31, 2022. (GENYA SAVILOV / AFP) ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine – United Nations inspectors arrived on Wednesday in the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia on a mission […]
Photo taken on March 10, 2022 shows the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia. (PHOTO / XINHUA) PRAGUE – EU foreign ministers on Wednesday decided to make it more expensive and lengthier for Russians to obtain visas to travel to the bloc but stopped short of agreeing to the EU-wide visa ban that Ukraine and several member […]
A team of IAEA experts and inspectors leave the capital Kyiv, Ukraine, Aug 31, 2022. The UN nuclear watchdog team set off on an urgent mission to safeguard the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant at the heart of fighting in Ukraine. (EFREM LUKATSKY / AP) KYIV – The International Atomic Energy Agency mission to the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear […]
White flags are seen on the National Mall near the Washington Monument in Washington, DC on Sept 19, 2021. The project, by artist Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg, uses over 600,000 miniature white flags to symbolize the lives lost to COVID-19 in the US. (DANIEL SLIM / AFP) Life expectancy fell in the United States in 2021 […]