Day: March 26, 2023

Sudan's army chief and defacto leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan speaks during the 5th Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC5) in Doha on March 4, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) Sudan's leader General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan said on Sunday that the country's army will be brought under the leadership of a new civilian government. Speaking before […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with Transport Minister at the Kremlin in Moscow on March 25, 2023. (PHOTO / SPUTNIK / AFP) Russia will station tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday, adding that the move would not violate nuclear non-proliferation promises. Putin likened his plans to the US […]

Volunteers sift through sand to collect microplastics on Laida beach in the Spanish Basque village of Ibarrangelu on June 8, 2019 as part of a cleanup campaign to mark World Oceans Day. (PHOTO / AFP) Walk along any beach in the world, no matter how isolated, you will find plastic of some kind washed up […]

General view of the plenary session of the XXVIII Ibero-American Summit of Heads of State and Government at the Dominican Foreign Ministry building in Santo Domingo, on March 25, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) SANTO DOMINGO – Leaders attending the Ibero-American Summit meeting in the Dominican Republic on Saturday discussed the need to address Haiti's deepening […]

Flowers and candles are seen on March 11, 2023 in Hamburg, northern Germany, at the tatort where several people were killed in a shooting in a church on March 9, 2023.  (PHOTO / AFP) FRANKFURT – Two people have died after a shooting in Hamburg, police said on Sunday, in a second deadly shooting in […]

Women walk through shelters in Sebedow Internally displaced Person (IDP) camp, one of more than 500 that surround Baidoa hosting 900,000 displaced people, in Baidoa, Somalia, on November 9, 2022. (PHOTO / AFP) ADDIS ABABA – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) on Friday warned that "unprecedented" levels of acute food insecurity have persisted […]

This picture taken near the village of Los Peiros, on March 25, 2023, shows forest area burnt by a wildfire that began on March 23, 2023 near Villanueva de Viver, some 90 kilometres (55 miles) north of Valencia. (PHOTO / AFP) MADRID – A recent wildfire in eastern Spain has burnt around 4,000 hectares of […]

Migrants from sub-Saharan Africa are rescued by the Tunisian National Guard off their makeshift boats which were used to make their way to the Italian coast, about 50 nautical miles in the Mediterranean sea off the coast of the central Tunisian city of Sfax on October 4, 2022. (PHOTO / AFP) TUNIS – At least […]

A projection marking Earth Hour is set up in front of Germany's landmark Brandenburg Gate shortly before Earth Hour in Berlin, Germany, March 25, 2023. (PHOTO / AP) GENEVA – As lights around the world turned off at 8:30 pm local time on Saturday to mark Earth Hour 2023, the World Wide Fund for Nature […]

Aerial view of a destroyed neighborhood in Rolling Fork, Mississippi, after a tornado touched down in the area March 25, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) SILVER CITY, Mississippi – Rescuers combed through rubble on Saturday after a powerful storm tore across Mississippi overnight, killing at least 25 people there and another in Alabama, leveling hundreds of […]