This file photo taken on April 20, 2021 shows Moderna vials on a table at a mobile COVID-19 vaccination clinic in Bridgeport, Connecticut. MOGADISHU / BERLIN – Swiss drugs regulator Swissmedic said on Monday that it has approved the first bivalent COVID-19 booster vaccine in the country. Moderna's Spikevax vaccine, which contains mRNA against two coronavirus variants, […]
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (center) delivers a speech at the Charles University on Aug 29, 2022 in Prague, Czech Republic. (MICHAL CIZEK / AFP) PRAGUE – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz called on Monday for an enlargement of the European Union to eventually include Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia, and said a gradual transition to majority voting […]
The Artemis I unmanned lunar rocket sits on the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Aug 28, 2022, ahead of its expected launch on Aug 29. (CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP) CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida – NASA's colossal next-generation rocketship was set for its long-awaited debut launch on Monday on an […]
This file photo dated May 1, 2022, shows a Russian soldier guarding an area of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in territory under Russian military control, southeastern Ukraine. (PHOTO / AP) KYIV – An International Atomic Energy Agency mission will visit the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine this week, agency chief Rafael Grossi said […]
In this file photo dated June 25, 2022, Josep Borell, the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy speaks during a joint press conference with the Iranian Foreign Minister at the foreign ministry headquarters in Iran's capital Tehran. (ATTA KENARE / AFP) VIENNA / PRAGUE – European Union foreign ministers […]
The NASA Artemis rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard stands on pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, March 18, 2022. (JOHN RAOUX / AP) CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida – Launch teams at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida spent a final full day of preparations ahead of Monday’s planned liftoff of […]
Rebalancing seen as helping to give developing countries a louder voice The BRICS Plus framework would help contribute in reinforcing multilateralism, respect for international law and peaceful settlement of disputes, the Argentine embassy in South Africa says. BRICS and BRICS Plus would help address common challenges and facilitate "dialogue based on shared interests", the embassy […]
Pedestrians use the Simon Bolivar International Bridge to cross between San Antonio, Venezuela (behind) and Cucuta, Colombia at sunrise on Aug 8, 2022, along the border which Venezuela partially closed in 2015. (MATIAS DELACROIX / AP) CARACAS – Colombia's new ambassador-designate to Venezuela, Armando Benedetti, arrived here on Sunday for normalizing diplomatic relations between the […]
Women walk towards an open-air market in the village of Wagalla in northern Kenya on Aug 19, 2022. (BRIAN INGANGA / AP) GENEVA – The worst drought in the Horn of Africa in more than 40 years looks almost certain to persist after the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Friday that forecasts for October-December […]
The cortege carrying the coffin of former Angola President Jose Eduardo dos Santos arrives at his state funeral at the Praca da Republica in Luanda on Aug 28, 2022. (JULIO PACHECO NTELA / AFP) LUANDA – Amid post-election tensions, Angola held a funeral on Sunday for long-serving ex-leader Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who died in […]
In this file photo dated Oct 26, 2021, Canada's deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland speaks during a press conference in Ottawa, Canada. (LARS HAGBERG / AFP) Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Sunday condemned an abusive verbal attack on his deputy prime minister and finance minister, Chrystia Freeland, which he described […]
In this file photo dated June 25, 2022, Josep Borell, the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy speaks during a joint press conference with the Iranian Foreign Minister at the foreign ministry headquarters in Iran's capital Tehran. (ATTA KENARE / AFP) VIENNA – European Union foreign ministers meeting later […]
In this file photo dated March 15, 2021, boxes of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by the Serum Institute of India and provided through the global COVAX initiative arrive at the airport in Mogadishu, Somalia. (FARAH ABDI WARSAMEH / FILE / AP) MOGADISHU – Somalia and two agencies of the United Nations on Sunday vowed to […]
Damaged vehicles are pictured in a street in the Libyan capital Tripoli on Aug 27, 2022, following clashes in the city. (MAHMUD TURKIA / AFP) TRIPOLI – Libya's capital was quiet early on Sunday, a day after the worst fighting there for two years killed 32 people and injured 159 as forces aligned with a […]
Masked patrons wait to order at a food stand inside Grand Central Market on July 13, 2022, in Los Angeles. (MARCIO JOSE SANCHEZ / AP) NEW YORK – Global COVID-19 cases topped 600 million on Saturday, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. The global case count amounted to 600,449,934, with 6,485,233 deaths worldwide, as […]
This picture taken on Aug 6, 2022 shows the entrance of the building where Belgian Walter Henri Maximilien Biot, husband of German consul Uwe Herbert Hahn, died on Aug 5, 2022, in the apartment they shared in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (ANDRE BORGES / AFP) RIO DE JANEIRO – A Brazilian court on Friday freed […]
Colombia's President Gustavo Petro attends a press conference next to Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez (out of frame) at Casa Nariño Presidential Palace in Bogota, on Aug 24, 2022. (RAUL ARBOLEDA / AFP) Colombian President Gustavo Petro, who took office earlier this month, on Saturday proposed a multilateral ceasefire to all illegal armed groups operating […]
Damaged vehicles are pictured in a street in the Libyan capital Tripoli on Aug 27, 2022, following clashes in the city. (MAHMUD TURKIA / AFP) TRIPOLI – Rival factions battled across Libya's capital on Saturday in the worst fighting there in two years as a months-long political standoff burst into urban warfare that threatens to […]
Kosovo Albanians ride their bikes along the Ibar River bridge in the town of Mitrovica, on Aug 26, 2022. Tensions between Serbia and Kosovo soared late last month when Kosovo's government declared that Serb-issued identity documents and vehicle license plates would no longer be valid in Kosovo's territory, just as Kosovo-issued ones are not valid […]
Masked patrons wait to order at a food stand inside Grand Central Market on July 13, 2022, in Los Angeles. (MARCIO JOSE SANCHEZ / AP) NEW YORK – Global COVID-19 cases topped 600 million on Saturday, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. The global case count amounted to 600,449,934, with 6,485,233 deaths worldwide, as […]