Participants are seen during a session of the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos on Jan 17, 2023. (FABRICE COFFRINI / AFP) GENEVA – The World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting 2023 closed on Friday, with more than 2,000 honorable guests participating in hundreds of sessions during the weeklong event. This year's version […]
Demonstrators hold placards during a protest to support the Burkina Faso President Captain Ibrahim Traore and to demand the departure of France's ambassador and military forces, in Ouagadougou, on Jan 20, 2023. (OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT / AFP) OUAGADOUGOU – Burkina Faso's military government has demanded the departure of French troops stationed in the country, the […]
Colombia's National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrilla commander Pablo Beltran (left) and Colombian government delegation member Otty Patino (right) listen to the reading of a document after a meeting within the framework of the peace talks at "La Casona Cultural Aquiles Nazoa" complex in Caracas on January 21, 2023. (YURI CORTEZ / AFP) CARACAS – The […]
In this file photo taken on Nov 9, 2021, children's toys and shoes sit on the porch as a tribute to the missing children of the former Mohawk Institute Residential School, in Brantford, Canada. (COLE BURSTON / AFP) Canada has reached an agreement to settle a class-action lawsuit seeking compensation for the loss of language […]
People protest outside the Police Investigation Operations Center – DIRINCRI to demand the release of those arrested at the campus of the University of San Marcos in Lima on Jan 21, 2023. (ERNESTO BENAVIDES / AFP) LIMA – Peruvian police arrested over 200 people accused of illegally entering the campus of a major Lima university, […]
In this undated photo, US President Joe Biden holds White House news conference in Washington. (PHOTO / REUTERS) WASHINGTON – A new search of President Joe Biden's home in Wilmington, Delaware on Friday by the US Justice Department found six more items, including documents with classification markings, a lawyer for the president said in a […]
Protesters demonstrate in front of the Consulate General of Sweden after Rasmus Paludan, leader of Danish far-right political party Hard Line and who also has Swedish citizenship burned a copy of the Koran near the Turkish Embassy in Stockholm, in Istanbul, Turkey, on Jan 21, 2023. (YASIN AKGUL / AFP) STOCKHOLM – Protests in Stockholm […]
HONG KONG, Jan 22, 2023 – (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – “Being consciously single” is not a new term. Over the past few years, especially during the pandemic, it has become a trend to enjoy staying single. According to a study by Bumble, a dating app where women are dominant, 53% of respondents said that […]
