A photo of a TV screen shows French President Emmanuel Macron speaking during televised address on June 22, 2022, in Paris. (LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP) AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France – France's business elite is grappling to live with a new, more hostile political order a month after far-right and hard-left parties robbed President Emmanuel Macron's government of […]
This April 3, 2013, file photo shows bitcoin tokens in Sandy, Utah. (RICK BOWMER / FILE / AP) LONDON – The Financial Stability Board said on Monday it would propose "robust" global rules for cryptocurrencies in October, following recent turmoil in markets that has highlighted the need to regulate the "speculative" sector. The FSB, a […]
US President Joe Biden speaks before signing an executive order protecting access to reproductive health care services, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC on July 8, 2022. (SAMUEL CORUM / AFP) US President Joe Biden on Sunday said he has asked his administration to consider whether he has authority to […]
US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer speaks during the primary election night party for New York Governor in New York city on June 28, 2022. (YUKI IWAMURA / AFP) US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, the most senior Democrat in the chamber, has tested positive for the coronavirus and has very mild symptoms, a spokesperson […]
Supporters of Brazilian presidential pre-candidate for the leftist Workers Party, former president (2003-2010) Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, attend a campaign rally in Diadema, Sao Paulo state, Brazil on July 9 2022. (NELSON ALMEIDA / AFP) SAO PAULO – A local official from Brazil's leftist opposition Workers' Party was shot dead on Saturday by a […]
In this file photo dated July 1, 2021, a general view of a burnt house in Rwangoma, Beni, Democratic Republic of Congo after ten people were killed in an attack overnight by suspected members of the Allied Democratic Forces Islamist militia. (SEBASTIEN KITSA MUSAYI / AFP) CAIRO – Islamic State claimed responsibility for an attack […]
In this file photo dated May 5, 2022, members of a community patrol try to force their way into a house where drugs are allegedly sold in Pimville, Soweto. Daily community patrols have increased their presence in the area in the recent months due to rising crime, mostly drug related, in the community. (GUILLEM SARTORIO […]
A handout photograph released by the UK Parliament shows Britain's outgoing health secretary Sajid Javid (center, 2nd back row) making a statement after the weekly session of Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) at the House of Commons in London on July 6, 2022. (JESSICA TAYLOR / UK PARLIAMENT / AFP) LONDON – The contest to replace […]
A handout photograph released by the UK Parliament shows Britain's outgoing health secretary Sajid Javid (center, 2nd back row) making a statement after the weekly session of Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) at the House of Commons in London on July 6, 2022. (JESSICA TAYLOR / UK PARLIAMENT / AFP) LONDON – Four further candidates have […]
Members of social organizations and leftist groups protest against the agreement of the government of Argentina's President Alberto Fernandez with the International Monetary Fund, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on July 9, 2022. (LUIS ROBAYO / AFP) BUENOS AIRES – Argentine President called for unity on Saturday as protesters marched in the capital to the gates […]
Russian Navy boat of the Black Sea Fleet patrols an aria of the Mariupol Sea Port in Mariupol on May 30, 2022. (PHOTO / AP) MOSCOW – The Russian navy on Friday received the first submarine Belgorod which is designed to carry Poseidon nuclear-powered underwater drones. ALSO READ: Putin: Peace negotiations with Ukraine to get more […]
A man gets tested with an antigenic test for COVID-19 in Paris on July 6, 2022. (ALAIN JOCARD / AFP) BOGOTA / PRAGUE / LUSAKA / PARIS / LOS ANGELES / LISBON – The total number of COVID-19 related deaths in France passed the 150,000 mark on Friday, after 74 deaths related to the virus were recorded in hospitals in […]
In this Nov 25, 2019 file photo, highway BR-163 stretches between the Tapajos National Forest, left, and a soy field in Belterra, Para state, Brazil. (LEO CORREA / AP) MANAUS, Brazil – Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest reached a record high for the first six months of the year, as an area five times the […]
A nurse vaccinates a person against COVID-19 at the Francisco de Paula Santander International Bridge in Cucuta, Colombia, on the border with Venezuela, on March 11, 2022. (SCHNEYDER MENDOZA / AFP) BOGOTA / PRAGUE / LUSAKA / PARIS / LOS ANGELES / LISBON – Colombia has entered the fifth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, so citizens should reinforce self-care measures […]
A cleanup crew prepares to work at the site of an explosion in Kyiv, Ukraine, on April 29. (EMILIO MORENATTI / AP) KYIV – Ukraine's Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov said Friday that about 1 million people are participating in defending Ukraine, the government-run Ukrinform news agency reported. Some 700,000 soldiers of Ukraine's Armed Forces, 100,000 […]
US President Joe Biden attends an event on fighting "ghost guns" crimes at the White House in Washington, DC April 11, 2022. (PHOTO/XINHUA) WASHINGTON – US President Joe Biden said the Supreme Court decision overturning the right to an abortion was an exercise in "raw political power" and signed an executive order on Friday to […]
Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves from 10 Downing Street in central London on July 6, 2022 to head to the Houses of Parliament for the weekly Prime Minister's Questions session. (JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP) LONDON – As many as a dozen candidates were on Friday eyeing up replacing Boris Johnson as British prime minister […]
A video grab from footage broadcast by the UK Parliament's Parliamentary Recording Unit shows Conservative MP for Tonbridge and Malling, Tom Tugendhat, speaking during an extraordinary session of parliament called to discuss the collapse of the Afghan government in the House of Commons in London on Aug 18, 2021. (AFP / PRU) LONDON – British […]
Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin addresses the court as Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill presides over Chauvin's sentencing at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis, June 25, 2021. (COURT TV VIA AP / POOL / FILE) Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, convicted last year of murdering George Floyd, was sentenced on Thursday to […]
A man gets tested with an antigenic test for COVID-19 in Paris on July 6, 2022. (ALAIN JOCARD / AFP) GENEVA / STOCKHOLM / JOHANNESBURG / LONDON / OTTAWA / THE HAGUE / CAIRO / BOGOTA – Europe is facing a new wave of COVID-19 driven by the highly-transmissible BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants of Omicron, said the European Medicines Agency (EMA) on […]