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EU leaders in Kyiv warned off arming Ukraine

Evacuees from the Donetsk and Lugansk regions board a train in Pokrovsk, Ukraine, on Wednesday. They are heading for the western Ukrainian city of Lviv. (ANATOLII STEPANOV / AFP) KYIV/MOSCOW-The Kremlin on Thursday warned against new Western weapon supplies to Ukraine as leaders of France, Germany and Italy visited Kyiv. It came a day after […]

EU leaders in Kyiv warned off arming Ukraine

Evacuees from the Donetsk and Lugansk regions board a train in Pokrovsk, Ukraine, on Wednesday. They are heading for the western Ukrainian city of Lviv. (ANATOLII STEPANOV / AFP) KYIV/MOSCOW-The Kremlin on Thursday warned against new Western weapon supplies to Ukraine as leaders of France, Germany and Italy visited Kyiv. It came a day after […]

Tributes for reporter, tribes expert killed in Amazon

Federal police officers arrive with recovered human remains believed to be of the Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira of Brazil and freelance reporter Dom Phillips of Britain, at the Federal Police hangar in Brasília, Brazil, on June 16, 2022. (ERALDO PERES / AP PHOTO) BRASILIA – Indigenous groups, environmentalists, fellow reporters and family and friends paid […]

Zelensky, European leaders discuss Ukraine’s EU integration

(From left) Romanian President Klaus Iohannis, Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz hold a press conference in at Mariinsky Palace in Kyiv on June 16, 2022. (LUDOVIC MARIN / POOL / AFP) KIEV – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met with the leaders of […]

Meta, Google vow to fight fake news better as EU gets tougher

This photo taken on Oct 1, 2019 in Lille shows the logos of mobile apps Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, Facebook, Google and Messenger displayed on a tablet. (PHOTO / AFP) BRUSSELS – Meta, Alphabet unit Google, Twitter and Microsoft agreed on Thursday to take a tougher line against disinformation under an updated EU code of practice […]

US FDA back virus shots for children as young as 6 mths

Food and Drug Administration building is shown Thursday, Dec 10, 2020 in Silver Spring, Md. (MANUEL BALCE CENETA / AP) SAO PAULO / FRANKFURT / BERLIN  / YAOUNDE – Advisers to the US Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday unanimously recommended the agency authorize COVID-19 vaccines from Moderna Inc and Pfizer Inc/BioNTech SE for millions of […]

Kenya president: Eastern Congo needs regional force deployment

Kenya's President Uuru Kenyatta gives an address when he attends commemorations of Kenya's Madaraka (self-rule) Day at the Uhuru Gardens in Nairobi on June 01, 2022. (TONY KARUMBA / AFP) KINSHASA – Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta on Wednesday called for the immediate deployment of a new regional military force to try to stop rebel violence […]

Europe’s climate policies risk being weakened, 10 countries warn

Steam comes out of the chimney of the coal-fired power station Neurath, Germany, Oct 24, 2021. (MICHAEL PROBST / AP) BRUSSELS – Germany, Denmark, Slovenia and seven other European Union countries on Wednesday warned of attempts to weaken the bloc's climate change policies, which they said are pushing negotiators towards deals that could thwart the […]

EU sues UK after plan to override deal on N. Ireland

EU commission Vice-President Maros Sefcovic gives a press conference at the EU headquarters in Brussels on June 15, 2022. The European Commission launched new legal action against Britain on Wednesday, accusing London of threatening peace in Northern Ireland by trying to overhaul the post-Brexit trade deal. (JOHN THYS / AFP) BRUSSELS  – The European Commission […]

NATO mulls pre-assigned forces for eastern flank members

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg arrives for a media conference at NATO headquarters in Brussels, June 15, 2022. (OLIVIER MATTHYS / AP) BRUSSELS – Specific forces could be pre-assigned to specific countries on the eastern flank of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to reinforce the alliance's deterrence and defense in response to the Russia-Ukraine conflict, […]

Canada, Denmark reach deal on long-standing boundary disputes

In this Aug 13, 2002 file photo, the crew of Danish warship Vedderen perform a flag raising ceremony on the uninhabited Hans Island off northwestern Greenland. (PHOTO / POLFOTO, VEDDEREN VIA AP) OTTAWA – Canada and Denmark reached an agreement on Tuesday to resolve the long-standing boundary disputes over the sovereignty of an Arctic island […]

Ryanair drops Afrikaans test after backlash in South Africa

A Ryanair plane parks at the airport in Weeze, Germany, Sept 12, 2018. (MARTIN MEISSNER / FILE / AP) DUBLIN – Ryanair has dropped a requirement for South African passengers to prove their nationality before traveling by completing a test in Afrikaans, Chief Executive Michael O'Leary said after the policy drew a backlash among South […]

Bulgarian govt faces no-confidence vote next week

Prime Minister of Bulgaria Kiril Petkov speaks during a joint press conference with European Commissioner for Transport Adina Valean and Romanian counterpart Nicolae Ciuca (not in picture) in Bucharest, Romania, April 29, 2022. (VADIM GHIRDA / AP) SOFIA – Bulgaria's main opposition party filed a no-confidence motion against the government of Prime Minister Kiril Petkov […]

Rare Yellowstone closure from historic floods spells hardship

This aerial photo provided by the National Park Service shows a flooded out North Entrance Road, of Yellowstone National Park in Gardiner, Montana, on June 13, 2022. (JACOB W. FRANK / NATIONAL PARK SERVICE VIA AP) CODY, Wyoming – Emergency crews scrambled on Tuesday to reopen roads and restore utilities in rural communities of Montana […]

Scotland’s Sturgeon: Outline for independence vote nearly ready

Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and Scottish Green Party co-leader Patrick Harvie (left) hold a news conference on a proposed second referendum on Scottish independence at Bute House in Edinburgh, Scotland, on June 14, 2022. (RUSSELL CHEYNE / POOL / AFP) LONDON – Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon on Tuesday said she was nearly ready […]

Swiss airports resume flights after air traffic control glitch

In this file photo taken on April 04, 2020, commercial planes of low cost airline EasyJet and Lufthansa's subsidiary Swiss airline are seen parked due to flight interruption amid the spread of COVID-19 at Geneva Airport. Switzerland closed its airspace on June 15, 2022 after a computer glitch with the air traffic control system grounded […]

EU states add pressure on Pfizer to cut unneeded vaccine supplies

An elderly couple wearing protective face masks against COVID-19 walks past the Pfizer Inc headquarters on Dec 9, 2020 in New York City. (ANGELA WEISS / AFP) GENEVA / BRUSSELS / MEXICO CITY / BERLIN / THE HAGUE / ROME / OTTAWA / ADDIS ABABA – European Union governments are intensifying pressure on Pfizer and other COVID-19 vaccine makers to […]

Russia imposes sanctions against UK journalists, defense figures

People walk past the Russian Foreign Ministry headquarters in Moscow on April 5, 2022. (ALEXANDER NEMENOV / AFP) MOSCOW – Russia has imposed personal sanctions against 29 media representatives and 20 defense figures of the United Kingdom in a retaliatory move, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Tuesday. The media representatives, including journalists working for The […]