Month: April 2023

Parents are reunited with their daughters in Jangabe, Zamfara state, Nigeria, March 3, 2021. (PHOTO / AP) MAIDUGURI – Gunmen in Nigeria have released 74 children out of more than 80 people who were abducted earlier this month in northwestern Zamfara state, after ransoms were paid, parents and a village head said on Saturday. Gangs of armed […]

An oil tanker is moored at the Sheskharis complex, part of Chernomortransneft JSC, a subsidiary of Transneft PJSC, in Novorossiysk, Russia, on Oct 11, 2022, one of the largest facilities for oil and petroleum products in southern Russia. (PHOTO / FILE / AP) VLADIVOSTOK – Russian President Vladimir Putin has authorized oil and oil product […]

People walk among scattered objects in the market of El Geneina, the capital of West Darfur, as fighting continues in Sudan between the forces of two rival generals, on April 29, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) KHARTOUM – Air strikes and artillery rocked Khartoum on Saturday as Sudan entered a third week of fighting between rival […]

In this photo taken on May 27, 2022, police officers speak near a makeshift memorial for the shooting victims outside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. (PHOTO / AFP) A man shot dead five neighbors including an 8-year-old boy after some of them had asked him to stop shooting a semiautomatic rifle in his front […]

A wheat field, which is discarded for the harvest due to the drought, is seen during scorching summer temperatures in spring in Ronda, Spain, April 27, 2023. (PHOTO / REUTERS) CORDOBA, Spain – Mainland Spain and Portugal have broken temperature records for April, as the Iberian neighbors swelter in an early-season heatwave that has exacerbated […]

US President Joe Biden laughs during the White House Correspondents’ Association gala at the Washington Hilton Hotel in Washington, DC, on April 30, 2022. US President Joe Biden made his pitch for re-election on the night of April 28, 2023 to a small group that may prove essential to his candidacy: the wealthy. (PHOTO / […]

Environmental activist and artist Rob Arnold sets up the machine he built that filters nurdles and microplastics from natural waste near Freathy, south western England, on Feb 26, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) BRUSSELS — Germany, the Netherlands, France and three other countries are calling for binding European Union measures to prevent the release of microplastics, […]

In this file video grab taken from footage broadcast by the UK Parliament's Parliamentary Recording Unit on February 7, 2023, shows BBC chairman Richard Sharp testifying in front of a Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee in London. (PHOTO / AFP) LONDON – BBC Chairman Richard Sharp resigned on Friday after an independent report found […]

A migrant worker prepares food at a restaurant prior to lunch time, in Milan, Italy, April 26, 2023. (PHOTO / REUTERS) Marilyn Nabor, an experienced high school mathematics teacher in the Philippines, moved to Italy 14 years ago with high hopes of honing her craft in the country of Galileo and Fibonacci. Now aged 49, […]

Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak talks to Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni during bilateral talks at 10 Downing Street in London on April 27, 2023. Sunak faces his first big electoral test as British prime minister next week in local polls where the opposition Labor Party hopes to capitalize on a year of chaos for the governing Conservatives, […]

In this file photo taken on January 6, 2021, US Vice President Mike Pence presides over a joint session of Congress to certify the 2020 Electoral College results in Washington, DC. Former US vice president Mike Pence testified on April 27, 2023, in the federal investigation, US media reported. (PHOTO / AFP) WASHINGTON – Former US […]