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, […]
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Five contenders to be next UK PM to face off in TV debate
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 […]
Buffalo shooting suspect faces federal hate, firearms charges
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 […]
European Commission cuts EU, eurozone growth forecasts
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 […]
UN: Pandemic behind major backslide in childhood vaccination
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 […]
Virus: Canada clears Moderna vaccine for children under 5
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 […]
Italy’s president rejects PM Draghi’s resignation for parliament
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 […]
Scorching heat wave sparks wildfires in Europe
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 […]
Draghi meets president as Italian govt faces collapse
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 […]
Gabon’s forest elephants test public patience with green agenda
A rare forest elephant is photographed in Gabon's Pongara National Park forest, March 12, 2020. (JEROME DELAY / AP) PONGARA NATIONAL PARK, Gabon – Forest elephants are smaller than their cousins on the African savannah, but in Gabon their destructive raids of farmers' fields are having an outsized impact on support for the government and […]
Death toll from COVID-19 surpasses 200,000 in Britain
A man receives a dose of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine at Babington Hospital in Belper on Dece 16, 2021 as the UK steps up the country's booster drive to fight a "tidal wave" of Omicron. (OLI SCARFF / AFP) RIGA / PARIS / NAIROBI / LONDON – More than 200,000 COVID-19 deaths have been recorded across […]
Kremlin hopes US-Saudi ties would not go “against Russia”
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov waits to watch the Victory Day military parade at Red Square in central Moscow on May 9, 2022. (KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP) MOSCOW – Moscow highly values its relations with Riyadh and hopes US President Joe Biden's upcoming visit to Saudi Arabia would not be used to create hostility against Russia, […]
Omicron subvariants drive new infections in Americas
A health worker poses with a syringe with dose of a COVID-19 vaccine at the Museum of Tomorrow where adults and children between the ages of five and eleven are being vaccinated against the novel coronavirus in Rio de Janeiro on Jan 18, 2022. (Carl DE SOUZA / AFP) RIGA / PARIS / NAIROBI / LONDON […]
Zelensky sees ‘progress’ in Ukraine-Russia grain export talks
In this handout photo provided by the Turkish Defence Ministry, Russian, top left, and Ukranian, right, delegations meet along with United Nation observers, left, and Turkish Defence Ministry members in Istanbul, Turkey on July 13, 2022, as they tried to reach an agreement on a UN plan to export Ukrainian grain to world markets through […]
Ex-finance minister Sunak tops first vote to be next UK PM
British Conservative Party Member of Parliament Rishi Sunak launches his campaign for the Conservative Party leadership, in London on July 12, 2022. (ALBERTO PEZZALI / AP PHOTO) LONDON – Former finance minister Rishi Sunak won the biggest backing from Conservative lawmakers on Wednesday in the first vote to choose who will succeed Boris Johnson as […]
Severe drought displaces over 100,000 Somalis in June
Nunay Mohamed, 25, who fled the drought-stricken Lower Shabelle area, holds her one-year old malnourished child at a makeshift camp for the displaced on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia, June 30, 2022. The crisis in Ukraine has abruptly drawn millions of dollars away from longer-running humanitarian crises and Somalia is perhaps the most vulnerable as […]
Portugal, Spain scramble to put out wildfires amid heatwave
A firefighter works to extinguish a wildfire at Casais do Vento in Alvaiazere on July 10, 2022. Around 1.500 firefighters were mobilized to put out three wildfires raging for more than 48 hours in central and northern Portugal, as the country was hit by a heat wave that prompted the government to declare a "state […]
EU: Adapted, two-strain vaccines to lift COVID-19 protection
A woman receives a shot of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at a temporary inoculation center at the Tate Modern in central London on July 16, 2021. (TOLGA AKMEN / AFP) WASHINGTON / PRAGUE / LOS ANGELES / FRANKFURT – A European health emergency official on Wednesday said adapted versions of established mRNA COVID-19 vaccines that […]
Why world’s first malaria shot won’t reach millions of children
In this Oct 30, 2009 file photo, a mother holds her baby receiving a new malaria vaccine as part of a trial at the Walter Reed Project Research Center in Kombewa in Western Kenya. (KAREL PRINSLOO / FILE / AP) LONDON / KISUMU, Kenya – After decades of work, the World Health Organization endorsed the […]
Virus: BA.4 & BA.5 account for over 80% new infections in US
A boy gets tested for COVID-19 after vaccinated family members tested positive for the coronavirus, in North Miami, Florida on Aug 9, 2021. (MARTA LAVANDIER / AP) WASHINGTON / PRAGUE / LOS ANGELES – The newer and most contagious Omicron subvariants, known as BA.4 and BA.5, now make up over 80 percent of COVID-19 infections […]