A man puts out a fire in Santa Juana, Concepcion province, Chile on Feb 3, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) SANTIAGO – Dozens of raging wildfires in Chile claimed at least thirteen lives and torched some 14,000 hectares (35,000 acres), authorities reported on Friday, as a summer heatwave sweeps across the southern hemisphere country. Eleven people, […]
The Union Flag flaps in the wind outside the Houses of Parliament in London, Oct 24, 2022. (PHOTO / AP) British spies unlawfully retained people's intercepted data over almost five years, a tribunal said on Monday in a ruling that blamed “widespread corporate failure” at the domestic intelligence agency MI5 and the interior ministry. The […]
This file photo taken on March 9, 2019 shows a woman casting her votes during the Gubernatorial and state House assembly election at a polling center in Lagos, Nigeria. (SUNDAY ALAMBA / AP) LONDON – The head of Nigeria's electoral commission said it will not postpone next month's presidential vote despite worries over widespread insecurity […]
Ambulance staff push a stretcher outside the Royal London hospital in east London on Jan 4, 2023. UK medical bodies said patients were dying due to inadequate care and urged the government to act as Britain's health service grapples with a winter crisis of strikes and soaring demand. (DANIEL LEAL / AFP) LONDON – England's […]
A view of the door of 10 Downing Street in London, Feb 22, 2022. (DAVID CLIFF / AP) LIVERPOOL – "Speaking truth unto power" has long been the motto of Britain's civil service, but now some government workers charged with offering ministers impartial advice whatever their party are fearful of their political bosses and are […]
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 […]
People wait in a TSA line at the John F. Kennedy International Airport on June 28, 2022, in New York. (JULIA NIKHINSON / AP) Piles of luggage beside baggage belts in airports from Canada to Europe are driving further demand for ground handlers, and adding to summer travel chaos as airlines scramble to bring back […]