The US Capitol is seen in Washington, DC, on Aug 6, 2022. (STEFANI REYNOLDS / AFP) WASHINGTON – The US Senate on Sunday passed a sweeping $430 billion bill intended to fight climate change, lower drug prices and raise some corporate taxes, a major victory for President Joe Biden that Democrats hope will aid their […]
This picture taken on Aug 6, 2022 shows the entrance of the building where Belgian Walter Henri Maximilien Biot, husband of German consul Uwe Herbert Hahn, died on August 5, 2022, in the apartment they shared in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The police is investigating the circumstances of his death, according to local media. (ANDRE […]
Sculptures known as the "Benin Bronzes" are pictured at a ceremony for the signing of an agreement of intent to return them to Nigeria at the German foreign ministry in Berlin, Germany on July 1, 2022. (ADAM BERRY / AFP) LONDON – London's Horniman Museum said on Sunday it would return 72 artefacts, including 12 […]
Newly elected Colombian President Gustavo Petro celebrates at the Movistar Arena in Bogota, on June 19, 2022 after winning the presidential runoff election on June 19, 2022. (DANIEL MUNOZ / AFP) BOGOTA – Gustavo Petro will on Sunday become Colombia's first leftist president, elected by voters who hope he can carry out ambitious social and […]
In this file photo taken on July 27, 2022, US President Joe Biden removes his protective mask while arriving to deliver remarks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI / AFP) WASHINGTON – US President Joe Biden tested negative for COVID-19 on Saturday in the process of his recovery […]
ATHENS – Greece's supreme court chief prosecutor on Friday evening announced that he will begin to probe into leaks regarding the intelligence service's phone surveillance activities. High court prosecutor Isidoros Dogiakos said that he will personally commence a preliminary investigation into what's termed as "leaks" affecting Greece's national security High court prosecutor Isidoros Dogiakos said […]
In this file photo taken on June 23, 2022, Brazilian indigenous people protest for the demarcation of indigenous land and over the murder of British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian Indigenous affairs specialist Bruno Pereira, in Sao Paulo, Brazil. (NELSON ALMEIDA / AFP) BRASILIA – Brazil's federal police on Saturday arrested five more men in […]
Mexican soldiers and rescue personnel work at the flooded coal mine where 10 miners have been trapped since Wednesday after a collapse, in the community of Agujita, Sabinas municipality, Coahuila state, Mexico, on Aug 6, 2022. (JULIO CESAR AGUILAR / AFP) SABINAS, Mexico – Large pumps sucked water from a flooded coal mine in Mexico […]
This file photo dated Sept 21, 2021, shows traffic moving on a street in Sudan's capital Khartoum. (MARWAN ALI / AP) KHARTOUM – Sudan summoned the Chadian ambassador to Sudan on Saturday to protest what it called a cross-border attack by Chadian armed groups that killed at least 18 Sudanese civilians, official SUNA news agency […]
This handout picture taken and released by the Turkish Defence ministry press office on Aug 3, 2022, shows an inspection delegation member inspecting the Sierra Leone-flagged cargo ship Razoni carrying 26,000 tonnes of corn from Ukraine, off the coast of north-west Istanbul. (TURKISH DEFENSE MINISTRY / AFP) ISTANBUL – The second caravan of ships transporting […]
Tourists arrive to the Mataveri international airport in Hanga Roa, Easter Island, Chile on Aug 4, 2022. (MIGUEL SANCHEZ / AFP) SANTIAGO / WASHINGTON – Chile's Easter Island received its first group of tourists on Thursday after closing its borders for more than two years due to the coronavirus pandemic. Easter Island, over 3,219 km from […]
This general view taken on July 8, 2018, shows the Kremlin and Moscow State University (back) in Moscow, Russia. (MLADEN ANTONOV / AFP) MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Friday banning "unfriendly" investors from making transactions with their shares in strategic Russian enterprises and projects until the end of the year. […]
In this photo released by Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov attends the 12th East Asia Summit foreign ministers' meeting in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on Aug 5, 2022. (RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY PRESS VIA AP) Russia and the United States said on Friday they were ready to discuss a prisoner swap, a […]
President of ruling African National Congress and South Africa President Ramaphosa addresses the 6th National Policy Conference in Johannesburg on July 29, 2022. (AP PHOTO) JOHANNESBURG – South Africa's Cyril Ramaphosa is beset by crises that have cast doubt on his presidency and left him vulnerable to a leadership challenge as his party begins the […]
Roots party presidential candidate George Wajackoyah gestures to his supporters during a campaign rally in Ruai, Nairobi on July 27, 2022, ahead of Kenya's August 2022 general election. (SIMON MAINA / AFP) NAIROBI – Sexagenarian reggae aficionado and presidential candidate George Wajackoyah is convinced he has the right medicine for the ills troubling Kenya's voters: […]
A woman casts her vote in the popular neighborhood of Yoff in Dakar on July 31, 2022. (JOHN WESSELS / AFP) DAKAR – Senegal's ruling Benno Bokk Yakaar (BBY) coalition has lost its comfortable majority in parliament, securing just two seats more than two allied opposition coalitions in a legislative election at the weekend, the […]
Travelers stand at a counter offering last minute flights at the airport in Frankfurt, Germany on May 11, 2021. Germany is removing all countries currently on its list of “high-risk areas” as part of a rethink of its coronavirus travel rules that will take effect on March 2, 2022. (MICHAEL PROBST / FILE / AP)] […]
People wait in line to receive the monkeypox vaccine at the Balboa Sports Center in the Encino neighborhood of Los Angeles, California on July 27, 2022. (ROBYN BECK / AFP) The United States has declared monkeypox a public health emergency, the health secretary said on Thursday, a move expected to free up additional funding and […]
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Infrastructure Ministry Press Office, the Sierra Leone-flagged Razoni cargo ship, with 26,000 tonnes of the Ukrainian corn aboard, leaves the port in Odesa region, Ukraine, Aug 1, 2022. (UKRAINIAN INFRASTRUCTURE MINISTRY PRESS OFFICE VIA AP) ANKARA – Three ships loaded with grain and other food supplies that have […]
In this Jan 24 file photo, medical staff carry out from an ambulance a person at the COVID-19 infected patients section at the Pokrovskaya hospital in Saint Petersburg. (OLGA MALTSEVA / AFP) LONDON / STOCKHOLM / JOHANNESBURG – Russia registered 17,126 new cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours, the highest daily increase since April 2, […]
