People enter a pharmacy next to a sign promoting flu shots in New York, Jan 10, 2013. (ANDREW KELLY / FILE PHOTO / REUTERS) An experimental vaccine provided broad protection against all 20 known influenza A and B virus subtypes in initial tests in mice and ferrets, potentially opening a pathway to a universal flu […]
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel (left) meets Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on November 22, 2022. (MIKHAIL KLIMENTYEV / SPUTNIK / AFP) MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin and First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez voiced common readiness on Tuesday to deepen relations […]
Police officers escort suspects linked to the Istanbul bombing in a court in Sofia on Nov 19, 2022. (NIKOLAY DOYCHINOV / AFP) SOFIA – Bulgarian prosecutors have charged five people for supporting terrorist acts in connection with an explosion in central Istanbul that killed six people on Nov 13, chief prosecutor Ivan Geshev said on […]
A registered nurse inoculates a man with a COVID-19 vaccine at a clinic set up in the parking lot of CalOptima in Orange, California, Aug 28, 2021. (JAE C HONG / AP) LOS ANGELES / MOSCOW / HARARE – New Omicron subvariants BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 accounted for nearly half of new COVID-19 cases in the […]
US President Joe Biden holds a press conference on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Nusa Dua on the Indonesian resort island of Bali, Nov 14, 2022. (SAUL LOEB / AFP) WASHINGTON – US President Joe Biden admitted on Monday that he did not expect Democrats to have enough votes in the next Congress […]
Chief of Staff of Ethiopian Armed Forces Field Marshall Birhanu Jula (left) and Head of the Tigray Forces Lieutenant General Tadesse Werede (right) exchange signed copies of an agreement, at Ethiopian peace talks in Nairobi, Kenya, Nov 12, 2022. (BRIAN INGANGA / AP) ADDIS ABABA – Senior commanders of the Ethiopian government and the Tigray […]
Demonstrators shout slogans on Nov 9, 2022 during a protest outside the venue hosting the COP27 climate conference, at the Sharm el-Sheikh International Convention Centre, in Egypt's Red Sea resort city of the same name. (MOHAMMED ABED / AFP) SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt – Civil society groups and youth activists at the UN COP27 summit held […]
East Africa among regions hit hardest, as hopes pinned on Egypt talks Maasai women gather to watch Maasai morans, or warriors, take part in an Olng'esherr ceremony at the foot of the Maparasha Hills, near Kajiado, in Kenya, Sept 23, 2020. (PHOTO / AP) With the desperation etched on her face, Elizabeth Kanini, a villager […]
A health worker administers a dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine (Janssen) against COVID-19, on Aug 5, 2021 at the Ambreck pharmacy, in Milan. (MIGUEL MEDINA / AFP) MILAN / CHICAGO / MOSCOW – Italian doctors and nurses suspended from work because they are not vaccinated against COVID-19 will soon be reinstated, new Health Minister […]
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 / MOSCOW – Colombia has received a total of 93,502,966 COVID-19 vaccine doses, of which 89,310,214 have been applied, the Ministry of Health […]
File photo of Suella Braverman taken in London, Britain, Sept 15, 2020, when she was serving as Britain's attorney general. (RAY TANG / XINHUA) LONDON – Suella Braverman, home secretary of the United Kingdom, resigned on Wednesday after breaching a security rule. However, she also noted her "serious concerns" about the direction of Prime Minister […]
In this file photo dated Sept 23, 2022, British Prime Minister Liz Truss (left) and then-Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng visit Berkeley Modular, in Northfleet, Kent, Britain. (DYLAN MARTINEZ / POOL PHOTO VIA AP) LONDON – Liz Truss, prime minister of the United Kingdom, on Wednesday defied calls to resign after almost all the […]
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 / WASHINGTON – A public inquiry into Britain's response to and handling of the COVID-19 pandemic got underway on Tuesday, with a promise it would get to the truth, and […]
A young womann from the Turkana community waters goats from a shallow well dug into a dry riverbed at Eliye springs on the western shore of Lake Turkana in Turkana county, Kenya on Sept 28, 2022. (TONY KARUMBA / AFP) LODWAR, Kenya – In a dry river bed in Kenya's arid northwest, pastoralists dig ever-deeper […]
Toyota City, Japan, Sep 24, 2022 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Toyota has decided to end vehicle production at its Saint Petersburg plant in Russia. On March 4 we had to suspend manufacturing operations at our plant in Saint Petersburg due to the interruption in supply of key materials and parts. Since then, we […]
TOKYO, Sep 23, 2022 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – The TOYOTA GAZOO Racing World Rally Team makes its first trip to Rally New Zealand determined to compete for the top positions when the event’s popular gravel roads return to the world stage for round 11 of the 2022 FIA World Rally Championship on September […]
An employee of Uniper Energy Storage inspects the above-ground facilities of a natural gas storage facility at the Uniper Energy Storage facility in Bierwang, southern Germany on June 10, 2022. (LENNART PREISS / AFP) LONDON – Europe's problems in sourcing oil and gas this winter after a dispute with Russia may be exacerbated by a […]
A man closes his eyes as he receives the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in Miami Beach, Florida, on Aug 4, 2021. (MARTA LAVANDIER / AP) WASHINGTON – Charles Gill, 41, a teacher in Pennsylvania, had COVID-19 a few months back. While many of his friends only had symptoms for a few days, his have lingered a […]
EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager gives a press conference in Brussels, on Sept 6, 2022, to announce Eu's veto against US life sciences company Illumina’s acquisition of biotechnology company Grail. (KENZO TRIBOUILLARD / AFP) BRUSSELS – From laptops to fridges to mobile apps, smart devices connected to the internet will have to assess their cybersecurity […]
Men walk next to a convoy of trucks part of the World Food Programme (WFP) on their way to Tigray in the village of Erebti, Ethiopia, on June 9, 2022. (EDUARDO SOTERAS / AFP) NAIROBI – Forces in northern Ethiopia's Tigray region that have been fighting the central government for nearly two years said on […]