This handout picture released by the Venezuelan Presidency press office showing Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro gesturing during the commemorative event for the 10th anniversary of the death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, at the Teresa Carreno Theater in Caracas, on March 5, 2023. (HANDOUT / VENEZUELAN PRESIDENCY / AFP) CARACAS – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro […]
Residents gather in front of the community hall in the aftermath of cyclone Freddy in Mananjary on February 23, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) JOHANNESBURG – Cyclone Freddy battered central Mozambique on Sunday after making landfall for a second time in a month and breaking records for duration and strength of tropical storms in the southern […]
Mauritania’s anti-terrorist forces (GSIGN) take part in a military parade for the celebrations of the sixtieth anniversary of Independence for Mauritania in Nouakchott on Nov 28, 2020. (PHOTO / AFP) NOUAKCHOTT – Three escaped terrorists have been killed and another arrested, Mauritania's defense and interior ministries said in a statement on Saturday. The Armed Forces […]
Residents walk among devastated neigborhoods and homes of the semi rural district of Illimo in the Piura region in northern Peru, on March 11, 2023, after heavy rains caused by the presence of an "unorganized cyclone” named Yaku, off the Peruvian coast, in the waters of the Pacific Ocean, according to the authorities. (PHOTO / […]
Former US vice-president Mike Pence gestures as he speaks during a Republican Jewish Coalition Annual Leadership Meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada on Nov18, 2022. (PHOTO / AFP) WASHINGTON – Former US vice-president Mike Pence said on Saturday that "history will hold Donald Trump accountable" for his role in the Jan 6, 2021, attack on the […]
People watch the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 21 second-generation Starlink satellites from Space Launch Complex 40 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, in Cocoa Beach, Florida, on Feb 27, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) WASHINGTON — Four crew members aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule splashed down off Florida's Gulf coast on Saturday, […]
A fishing boat with some 500 migrants enters the southern Italian port of Crotone, March 11, 2023. (PHOTO / AP) ROME – More than 1,300 migrants have been rescued in three separate operations off the southern tip of Italy, the coastguard said on Saturday, two weeks after at least 74 people died when their boat hit rocks […]
Gary Lineker, former England footballer turned sports TV presenter for the BBC, arrives at the King Power Stadium in Leicester, central England on March 11, 2023, ahead of the English Premier League football match between Leicester City and Chelsea. (PHOTO / AFP) LONDON – Britain's BBC faced a mounting crisis as a row over football […]
A protestor holds a banner reading "Let us defend our pensions" during a demonstration, as part of a nationwide day of strikes and protests called by unions over the proposed pensions overhaul, in Paris on March 11, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) PARIS – The French Senate on Saturday night adopted President Emmanuel Macron's unpopular pension […]
