Leader of Italian far-right party "Fratelli d'Italia" (Brothers of Italy), Giorgia Meloni acknowledges the audience after she delivered an address at her party's campaign headquarters overnight on Sept 26, 2022 in Rome, after the country voted in a legislative election. ROME – The right-wing alliance that won Italy's national election will usher in a rare […]
Photo taken on Aug 22, 2022 shows the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. (PHOTO / XINHUA) The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, or IAEA, on Monday called the safety of a shelled nuclear power plant in Ukraine a top priority as the nuclear watchdog's 175 member states gathered for talks in Vienna this week. […]
In this file photo dated Oct 29, 2021, US President Joe Biden (left) and French President Emmanuel Macron wave prior to a meeting at La Villa Bonaparte in Rome. (EVAN VUCCI / AP) WASHINGTON – US President Joe Biden will host French President Emmanuel Macron at the White House for a state visit on Dec […]
This screengrab made from NASA live feed on Sept 26, 2022, shows Dimorphos just before the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) made impact with the asteroid, as watched by the NASA team (bottom left) at DART headquarters in Laurel, Maryland. (NASA / AFP) NASA's DART spacecraft successfully slammed into a distant asteroid at hypersonic speed […]
Jesus Rodrigues takes wood to his vehicle outside a Home Depot store in preparation for the arrival of Hurricane Ian on Sept 26, 2022, in Orlando, Florida. (PHELAN M. EBENHACK / AP) BATABANO, Cuba – The first strong winds ahead of Hurricane Ian began to pound Cuban coastal villages late on Monday as officials rushed […]
People board a Boeing 737 MAX plane operated by Air Canada at Edmonton International Airport in Alberta, Canada, on July 27, 2022. (TED SHAFFREY / AP) OTTAWA / MOSCOW / NEW YORK – Canada will drop all COVID-19 restrictions for travelers from Oct 1, including vaccination and masking requirements for flights and trains, the government said on […]
Edward Snowden is seen on the screen during a live remote interview at CeBIT 2015 in Hanover, Germany, on March 18, 2015. (ZHANG FAN / XINHUA) MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Monday granting Russian citizenship to former US National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden. Snowden, who revealed in 2013 that […]
In this Sept 12, 2022 file photo, a placard hangs on the wall during the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) Technology Media Workshop Telecon Briefing and tour at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, ahead of the Sept 26 project test mission. (JIM WATSON / AFP) Ten months after launch, NASA's asteroid-deflecting […]
In this file photo on May 13, 2021, police investigators work at the scene after a shooting in Kazan, Russia. (DMITRI LOVETSKY / AP) MOSCOW – A gunman killed nine people, including five children, at a school in Russia on Monday before committing suicide, investigators said. The motive for the shooting in Izhevsk, capital of […]
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz speaks during the Global Fund's Seventh Replenishment Conference on Sept 21, 2022, in New York. (EVAN VUCCI / AP) MADRID / MOSCOW / PARIS / BERLIN – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has tested positive for coronavirus and is showing mild symptoms, the TV news channel ntv reported on Monday. The chancellor is […]
This satellite image provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows Tropical Storm Ian over the central Caribbean on Sept 24, 2022. (NOAA VIA AP) HAVANA – Tropical Storm Ian hurtled toward western Cuba on Sunday, prompting the government to evacuate tourists amid expectations of life-threatening storm surges as it turns into a hurricane […]
Hungary's Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto speaks with the media as he arrives for a meeting of EU Foreign Ministers at the Prague Congress Center in Prague, Czech Republic on Aug 30, 2022. (PETR DAVID JOSEK / AP) BUDAPEST – Sanctions on Russia are causing damage to Europe and it is a […]
Right-wing party Brothers of Italy's leader Giorgia Meloni speaks to the media at her party's electoral headquarters in Rome, Sept 25, 2022. (GREGORIO BORGIA / AP) ROME – Giorgia Meloni looks set to become Italy's first woman prime minister at the head of its most right-wing government since World War II after leading a conservative […]
Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez addresses a press conference to present his government's results since the beginning of the year, at La Moncloa Palace in Madrid, on July 29, 2022. (JAVIER SORIANO / AFP) MADRID / MOSCOW – Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez tested positive for COVID-19 on Sunday morning. Sanchez confirmed the news in a […]
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This National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) satellite handout image shows post-tropical storm Fiona over eastern Canada, on Sept 24, 2022, at 13:50UTC. Fiona knocked out power to more than 500,000 households as it lashed eastern Canada with strong winds and heavy rain on Saturday, electricity providers said. (HANDOUT / NOAA / RAMMB / AFP) […]
The Artemis I unmanned lunar rocket sits on the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center on Sept 2, 2022. (CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP) WASHINGTON – NASA said on Saturday that it was scrapping Tuesday's plans to launch Artemis, the US return to the moon after five decades, noting concerns about a tropical storm headed […]
This National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) satellite handout image shows post-tropical storm Fiona over eastern Canada, on Sept 24, 2022, at 13:50UTC. Fiona knocked out power to more than 500,000 households as it lashed eastern Canada with strong winds and heavy rain on Saturday, electricity providers said. (HANDOUT / NOAA / RAMMB / AFP) […]
A picture taken on May 8, 2021 shows a sign of the World Health Organization at the entrance of their headquarters in Geneva amid the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak. (FABRICE COFFRINI / AFP) LONDON / MOSCOW – If rich nations think the pandemic is over, they should help lower-income countries reach that point too, a senior World […]
Leader of Italian far-right party "Fratelli d'Italia" (Brothers of Italy) Giorgia Meloni (rear center on stage) delivers a speech on Sept 23, 2022 at the Arenile di Bagnoli beachfront location in Naples, southern Italy, during a rally closing her party's campaign for the Sept 25 general election. (ANDREAS SOLARO / AFP) ROME – Millions of […]
