Day: March 29, 2023

This handout video grab image courtesy of the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department released on March 27, 2023, shows suspect Audrey Hale holding an assault rifle at the Covenant School building at the Covenant Presbyterian Church, in Nashville, Tennessee. (METROPOLITAN NASHVILLE POLICE DEPARTMENT / AFP) NASHVILLE, Tennessee – The former student of a Christian grade school […]

Migrants light candles during a vigil outside Mexican immigration facilities where at least 38 migrants died in a fire, in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua state, on March 28, 2023, Mexico. (PHOTO / AFP) El Salvador condemned on Tuesday the action of detention center staff in Mexico during a fire that killed at least 38 migrants, including […]

Peru's President Dina Boluarte (left) looks at Prime Minister Alberto Otarola as she offers a press conference at the Presidential Palace in Lima on February 10, 2023. Peruvian prosecutors are investigating Boluarte and former president Pedro Castillo for allegedly laundering money as part of a criminal organization, the attorney general's office said on Twitter on […]

In this file photo dated Sept 22, 2021, Fraidy Reiss, child marriage survivor and founder of "Unchained at Last" shows a tattoo of a broken chain on her wrist in Boston, Massachusetts. (PHOTO / AFP) BERLIN — Germany's Constitutional Court ruled on Wednesday that a law declaring marriages entered into by children under the age […]

This March 30, 2021 photo shows an exterior view of the World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. (PHOTO / XINHUA) LONDON – Drugs that combat obesity could for the first time be included on the World Health Organization's "essential medicines list," used to guide government purchasing decisions in low- and middle-income countries, the UN […]

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov (center) attends the 52nd UN Human Rights Council session, in Geneva, on March 2, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) Russia said on Wednesday that Washington's decision to stop sharing some data on its nuclear forces under the New START arms control treaty will not prompt Moscow to review its own […]

Protesters hold unions' flags and banners during a demonstration after the government pushed a pensions reform through parliament without a vote, in Limoges, on March 28, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) PARIS / NANTES, France – Black-clad groups set fire to garbage cans and threw projectiles at police in Paris, who charged at them and threw […]

Russia's President Vladimir Putin (right) and Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu (left) attend command-and-staff training exercise s outside Moscow, on May 7, 2014. Russia's Strategic Missile Forces have launched a large-scale command-and-staff exercise that will involve the Yars intercontinental ballistic missile system, the Russian Defense Ministry said on March 29, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) VLADIVOSTOK, Russia […]

Britain's Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex leaves the Royal Courts of Justice, Britain's High Court, in central London on March 28, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) LONDON – Britain's Prince Harry has accused Buckingham Palace in court documents of withholding information from him about phone-hacking and said he was exposing the alleged wrongdoing by tabloid "criminals" […]

Humza Yousaf speaks to the media after being voted the new First Minister at the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh, Scotland, March 28, 2023. (PHOTO / PA VIA AP) LONDON – Humza Yousaf was officially elected as Scotland's sixth First Minister on Tuesday, with a majority of 71 out of 128 votes. The 37-year-old is Scotland's […]

A seller serves a customer in a fruit and vegetable stall at the local market in the district of Trionfale, in Rome, on April 16, 2020. (PHOTO / AFP) ROME – Italy's government on Tuesday approved a bill banning the use of laboratory-produced food and animal feed as it aims to safeguard the country's agri-food […]

A health worker prepares a dose of Pfizer COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine at a health center in Jakarta on Feb 1, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) The World Health Organization has tailored its COVID-19 vaccination recommendations for a new phase of the pandemic, suggesting that healthy children and adolescents may not necessarily need a shot but older, […]