Kenya's President, Uhuru Kenyatta delivers a speech during the 39th IGAD extraordinary summit in Nairobi on July 5, 2022. (TONY KARUMBA / AFP) NAIROBI – Kenyan and Somali leaders on Friday recommitted to fighting terrorism, tackling drought, and resuming cross-border trade as the two countries revitalize their engagement in all areas of mutual interest. In […]
AP22198160719066.jpg ATHENS – A Ukrainian cargo plane with an eight-member crew on board crashed near Kavala city in northern Greece on Saturday evening, Greek media reported. The Antonov An-12 plane was on route from Serbia to Jordan as the pilot requested permission for an emergency landing and notified Greek authorities of failure in one of […]
A firefighter tackles a forest fire around the village of Eiriz in Baiao, north of Portugal, on July 15, 2022. (PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA / AFP) PARIS/LISBON – Wildfires raged in southwestern France and Spain on Saturday, forcing thousands of people to be evacuated from their homes as blistering summer temperatures put authorities on alert […]
Tourists, some wearing a face mask, walk by the Colosseum monument in Rome on Aug 22, 2020, amid the COVID-19 pandemic. (VINCENZO PINTO / AFP) ROME / TUNIS – Italy's Ministry of Health reported nearly 90,000 new coronavirus infections Saturday, bringing the country's total number of officially diagnosed cases to 20.08 million since January 2020. […]
North Macedonia's Prime Minister Dimitar Kovacevski (C) delivers a speech during a press conference in the Government building in Skopje, on July 16, 2022. North Macedonia's Prime Minister Dimitar Kovacevski announced on July 16, 2022 that Skopje had reached a compromise with Bulgaria in a long-running dispute, allowing them to start European Union membership talks. […]
A group arrives to pay their respects at a memorial service in the Akron Civic Center for Jayland Walker in Akron, Ohio, July 13, 2022. (GENE J. PUSKAR / AP) An autopsy found that eight Akron, Ohio, police officers shot Jayland Walker 46 times, including five times in the back, when they opened fire and […]
Britain's Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, Liz Truss, speaks during the launch of her campaign to be Conservative Party leader and Prime Minister, in Westminster, in London on July 14, 2022. (FRANK AUGSTEIN / AP) LONDON – British Foreign Minister Liz Truss clashed over tax policy with former finance minister Rishi […]
People write messages in memory of their beloved ones, on the National COVID-19 Memorial Wall, in London, on March 28, 2022. (TOLGA AKMEN / AFP) LONDON / NEW YORK / BERLIN / LOS ANGELES / PRAGUE / OTTAWA – An estimated 3.5 million people in Britain had COVID-19 in the latest week of available data, the Office for National Statistics […]
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen speaks during a press conference on the EU membership applications by Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels on June 17, 2022. (KENZO TRIBOUILLARD / AFP) BRUSSELS / MOSCOW / KYIV – The European Commission on Friday adopted a proposal for a seventh package of measures […]
This photograph taken on July 15, 2022 shows a restaurant destroyed by flames due to a wildfire spreading in the area close to the beach of Cazaux lac, near La Teste-de-Buch, southwestern France. (THIBAUD MORITZ / AFP) LEIRIA, Portugal/LONDON – Hundreds more people were evacuated from their homes as wildfires blistered land in France, Spain and […]
A child has his thumb marked after receiving a polio vaccine during a door-to-door polio immunisation campaign in Mbezi Mwisho, Dar es Salaam on May 21, 2022. (ERICKY BONIPHACE / AFP) LONDON – Around 25 million children around the world missed out on routine vaccinations that protect against life-threatening diseases last year, as the knock-on […]
This handout photo courtesy of US Navy shows the United States Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron, "Thunderbirds" and the US Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels, debut a F-16 Fighting Falcon and F/A-18 Super Hornet flight formation known as the "Super Delta" during a joint training evolution over Naval Air Facility (NAF) El Centro, […]
This Jan 14, 2022 photo shows a police officer on duty at 10 Downing Street in London. (KIRSTY WIGGLESWORTH / AP) LONDON – The five remaining contenders to be Britain's next prime minister will go head to head in the first of three televised debates on Friday, hoping a good performance will boost their chances […]
Cariol Horne, 54, holds up a sign as she stands outside the fenced-off parking lot outside Tops Friendly Market during a remembrance ceremony on July 14, 2022, in Buffalo, NY (JOSHUA BESSEX / AP PHOTO) The man accused of shooting dead 10 Black people at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, on May 14 […]
Flags of the European Union flutter in front of the headquarters of the European Central Bank (ECB) in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, on March 10, 2021. (ARMANDO BABANI / AFP) BRUSSELS – The European Commission cut its economic growth forecasts for the European Union and the eurozone for 2022 and 2023 and revised up its […]
A child has his thumb marked after receiving a polio vaccine during a door-to-door polio immunisation campaign in Mbezi Mwisho, Dar es Salaam on May 21, 2022. (ERICKY BONIPHACE / AFP) LONDON – Around 25 million children around the world missed out on routine vaccinations that protect against life-threatening diseases last year, as the knock-on […]
This file photo taken on June 4, 2021 shows a vial of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at a pharmacy in Paris, France. (STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP) OTTAWA / COPENHAGEN / LOS ANGELES / PRAGUE – Canada on Thursday authorized Moderna Inc's COVID-19 vaccine for babies as young as 6 months old, making it the country's first vaccine against […]
Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi gives a press conference at Canazei Fire Brigade on July 4, 2022, one day after an ice avalanche sparked by the collapse of the largest glacier in the Italian Alps killed at least six people and injured eight others. (PIERRE TEYSSOT / TEYSSOT / AFP) ROME – The Italian head […]
A forest fire reaches olive trees in the village of Colmeias, near Leiria, central Portugal, July 13, 2022. (ARMANDO FRANCA / AP) LEIRIA, Portugal – Thousands of firefighters battled more than 20 blazes that raged on Wednesday across Portugal and western Spain, menacing villages and disrupting tourists' holidays amid a heat wave that pushed temperatures […]
President of the Italian Senate Maria Elisabetta Alberti Casellati (center) reads the results of the vote in the Senate hall after a vote of confidence to the prime minister at Palazzo Madama in Rome on July 14, 2022. (ANDREAS SOLARO / AFP) ROME – Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi's coalition government appeared on the brink […]