A colony of penguins is seen on St. Croix island in Algoa Bay outside Port Elizabeth, on July 08, 2020. Nestled half-way along the European-Asian sea route, the bay's deep-water port was a strategically obvious choice for South Africa's first offshore bunkering operation, which started in 2016. Conservationists have voiced concern about ships fuelling at […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks to members of the State Duma and the Federal Assembly of The Russian Federation in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia on July 7, 2022. (ALEXEI NIKOLSKY / SPUTNIK / KREMLIN POOL PHOTO VIA AP) LONDON – Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the United States on Tuesday of whipping up tensions […]
Kenyan opposition leader Kenyan Raila Odinga speaks during a rally at which he announced he would make his fifth bid for the presidency in Kenya's 2022 general election, in Nairobi, Dec 10, 2021. (SIMON MAINA / AFP) KISUMU/NAIROBI – Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga rejected as "null and void" the result of an Aug 9 […]
US President Joe Biden looks at his grandson Beau Biden as first lady Jill Biden waves and walks to board Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Aug 10, 2022. (MANUEL BALCE CENETA/AP) LONDON / WASHINGTON / PRAGUE – US first lady Jill Biden has testified positive for COVID-19, her communications director Elizabeth […]
A cargo ship is pictured moored to the quayside at the dock in Hartlepool in north east England on May 3, 2021. (LINDSEY PARNABY / AFP) LONDON – Britain has launched a scheme to extend tariff cuts to hundreds of products, such as clothes and food, from developing countries, part of London's post-Brexit efforts to […]
Flags of the European Union fly outside the EU headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, May 21, 2021. (ZHENG HUANSONG / XINHUA) WELLINGTON – The European Union is working to boost its presence in the Pacific through economic ties and new security commitments as geostrategic competition in the region intensifies, the bloc's ambassador to Pacific Island nations […]
Armed Secret Service agents stand outside an entrance to former US president Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate late on Aug 8, 2022, in Palm Beach, Florida. (TERRY RENNA / AP) WASHINGTON – The US Justice Department on Monday said it opposes unsealing the affidavit that prosecutors used to obtain a federal judge's approval to search former […]
A flag is seen during a protest in front of the British embassy to demand the freedom of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, in Mexico City on Jan 4, 2021. (Pedro PARDO / AFP) WASHINGTON – A group of journalists and lawyers sued the CIA and its former director Mike Pompeo over allegations the intelligence agency […]
Vials of the JYNNEOS Monkeypox vaccine are prepared at a pop-up vaccination clinic in Los Angeles, California, on Aug 9, 2022. (PATRICK T. FALLON / AFP) LOS ANGELES – Monkeypox cases in the United States have kept climbing rapidly, topping over 11,000 cases, while media and experts have been blaming the Biden administration's response to […]
People walk along an embankment of the Moskva River with the Russian Defense Ministry on the background in Moscow on Feb 22, 2022. (DIMITAR DILKOFF / AFP) MOSCOW – An RC-135 reconnaissance plane of the British Royal Air Force illegally crossed Russia's state border in the Arctic area of Cape Svyatoy Nos, the Russian Defense […]
A man wears a face mask as he walks in Piccadilly Circus, in London on Oct 19, 2021. (ALBERTO PEZZALI / AP) LONDON / WASHINGTON / PRAGUE – Britain, the first country to approve a coronavirus vaccine in late 2020, has now also given the first green light to a variant-adapted shot that targets both […]
William Ruto(left), and his deputy Rigathi Gachagwa, show the certificate after the announcement in the presidential race at the Centre in Bomas, Nairobi, Kenya, on Aug 15, 2022. (SAYYID ABDUL AZIM / AP) NAIROBI – Kenya's Deputy President William Ruto has won the presidential election, the electoral commission chairman announced on Monday evening. The Independent […]
A protester holds a placard as she stands outside the Home Office in central London on June 13, 2022, to demonstrate against the UK government's intention to deport asylum-seekers to Rwanda. (NIKLAS HALLE'N / AFP) LONDON – Housed in a detention center in southern England, Aladeen says he risked his life to travel thousands of […]
Turkish-flagged ship Polarnet carrying tons of grain from Ukraine sails along the Bosphorus Strait past Istanbul on Aug 7, 2022, after being officially inspected. ISTANBUL – The first ship carrying Ukrainian wheat to be exported under a UN-brokered deal arrived in Istanbul on Sunday, the Joint Coordination Centre based in the Turkish city said. The […]
Hadi Matar, 24 (center) arrives for an arraignment in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, New York on Aug 13, 2022. (GENE J. PUSKAR / AP) Salman Rushdie, the acclaimed author who was stabbed repeatedly at a public appearance in New York state on Friday, 33 years after Iran's then-supreme leader called for him to […]
Pedestrians walk in a street next to a billboard of Kenya's Deputy President William Ruto and presidential candidate for the United Democratic Alliance (UDA) and Kenya Kwanza political coalition, in Eldoret, on Aug 13, 2022. (SIMON MAINA / AFP) NAIROBI – Kenya's Deputy President William Ruto has edged ahead in a tight presidential race, according […]
JK Rowling poses for photographers upon arrival at the World premiere of the film "Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore" in London on March 29, 2022. (SCOTT GARFITT / AP) LONDON – Scotland's police said on Sunday they are investigating a report of an "online threat" made to the author JK Rowling after she tweeted […]
Egyptian mourners react during the funeral of victims killed in Cairo Coptic church fire, at the church of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Giza Governorate on Aug 14, 2022. (KHALED DESOUKI / AFP) CAIRO – An electrical fire swept through an Egyptian Coptic Christian church during Mass on Sunday, causing a stampede and killing […]
Katherine Sofoluke holding her dog George in her garden in Beckenham, Greater London, Aug 13, 2019. (NATASHA LIVINGSTONE / AP) LONDON – Stood on her hind legs to greet any prospective owner who might approach her glass-doored kennel, Harriet is a black English cocker spaniel abandoned as a deepening cost-of-living crisis pushes growing numbers of […]
In this file photo taken on Aug 7, 2022, a man takes a picture as the Glory bulk carrier makes its way from the port in Odesa, Ukraine. According to Ukraine's Ministry of Infrastructure, the ship under the Marshall Islands' flag is carrying 66 thousand tons of Ukrainian corn. (NINA LYASHONOK / AP) ODESA, Ukraine […]