Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Hans Ellegren, Eva Olsson and Thors Hans Hansson, members of the Nobel Committee for Physics, announce the winners of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics Alain Aspect, John F Clauser and Anton Zeilinger, during a news conference at The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, […]
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 […]
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 […]
In this handout photo released by the State Duma, the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation Press Service, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, foreground center, addresses deputies during a session at the State Duma, the Lower House of the Russian Parliament, in Moscow, Russia, Oct 3, 2022. (THE STATE DUMA, THE FEDERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE RUSSIAN […]
French Justice Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti arrives at the Elysee Palace for the first cabinet meeting since French President Emmanuel Macron's reelection, May 23, 2022 in Paris. (MICHEL SPINGLER / AP) PARIS – France's justice minister will stand trial before a special judicial body for suspected conflict of interest in two cases, a court spokeswoman said […]
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 […]
A letter from acting archivist of the United States Debra Steidel Wall to former President Donald Trump's legal team is photographed on Aug 23, 2022. (JON ELSWICK / AP) WASHINGTON – Former President Donald Trump's administration has not turned over all presidential records and the National Archives will consult with the Justice Department on whether […]
A catamaran rests atop a dock in Getaway Marina, which was destroyed during the passage of Hurricane Ian, most of its boats left scattered on the road or stuck in the mangroves, on San Carlos Boulevard in Fort Myers Beach, Florida, Oct 2, 2022. (REBECCA BLACKWELL / AP) MIAMI – The death toll from Hurricane […]
Voters wait to cast their ballots at a polling station during Bulgaria's parliamentary elections in Sofia, Bulgaria on Oct 2, 2022. (NIKOLAY DOYCHINOV / AFP) SOFIA – GERB-UDF coalition leads in Bulgaria's early parliamentary elections, according to exit polls reported by the Bulgarian National TV on Sunday. GERB-UDF coalition is expected to have 25.5 percent […]
New pipeline in region comes amid Nord Stream sabotage concerns A Ukrainian soldier walks on a collapsed bridge over the Donets River in the Donetsk region on Saturday. (VLADYSLAV MUSIIENKO / REUTERS) BRUSSELS/BERLIN — European nations are intensifying efforts to secure energy supplies, with the weekend opening of a gas pipeline in the region's southeast […]
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 […]
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who is running for another term, leaves the polling post where he voted in the general election in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Oct 2, 2022. (ANDRE COELHO / POOL / AP) BRASILIA/RIO DE JANEIRO – Brazil's presidential election is headed for a run-off vote, electoral authorities said on Sunday, after President […]
Latvian Prime Minister and Head of board of leading political party Jauna Vienotiba (New Unity) Krisjanis Karins smiles as he speaks to the media while awaiting the results of parliament elections, in Riga, Latvia on Oct 1, 2022. (ROMAN KOKSAROV / AP) RIGA – Latvian Prime Minister Krisjanis Karins' center-right party New Unity on Saturday […]
Brazil's former President and presidential candidate Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva leads a silent march, in Sao Paulo, Brazil Oct 1, 2022. (MARIANA GREIF / REUTERS) BRASILIA – Brazilians are voting on Sunday in the first round of their country's most polarized election in decades, with leftist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva favored to beat […]
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 – […]
A vial of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus disease (COVID-19) booster vaccine targeting BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron sub variants is pictured at Skippack Pharmacy in Schwenksville, Pennsylvania, US, Sept 8, 2022. (HANNAH BEIER / REUTERS) Only a third of US adults polled said they either already received the updated shots or plan to get the booster as […]
A woman stands in front of a damaged house, in Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, on Sept 12, 2022. (JUAN BARRETO / AFP) UNITED NATIONS – United Nations Security Council on Friday failed to adopt a draft resolution, which "condemns" the referendums held in four Ukrainian regions under Russian control from Sept 23 to 27. READ MORE: Kremlin […]
Amid sliding pound, financial jitters, UK's PM holds firm on radical policies British Prime Minister Liz Truss (left) and Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng visit Berkeley Modular, in Northfleet, Kent, Britain, Sept 23, 2022. (DYLAN MARTINEZ / POOL PHOTO VIA AP) British Prime Minister Liz Truss insisted her government has "done the right thing" […]
Eric Emeraux, head of the Gendarmerie's Central Office for Combating Crimes Against Humanity, Genocides and War Crimes, displays documents with a wanted poster depicting a photograph of Felicien Kabuga during an interview with Reuters at his office, about the arrest of Rwandan genocide fugitive suspect Felicien Kabuga, in Paris, France, May 19, 2020. (BENOIT TESSIER […]