European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen speaks during a news conference after a meeting of the College of Commissioners at EU headquarters in Brussels, June 17, 2022. (GEERT VANDEN WIJNGAERT / AP) BRUSSELS – The European Commission recommended that Ukraine and Moldova should be granted candidate status for accession to the European Union, Commission […]
A supporter of Julian Assange, with a poster of the WikiLeaks founder, joins other protesters to block a major road in front of Westminster Magistrates Court in London, May 2, 2019. (FRANK AUGSTEIN / AP) LONDON – British interior minister Priti Patel on Friday approved the extradition of WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange to the United […]
A supporter of Julian Assange, with a poster of the WikiLeaks founder, joins other protesters to block a major road in front of Westminster Magistrates Court in London, May 2, 2019. (FRANK AUGSTEIN / AP) LONDON – British interior minister Priti Patel on Friday approved the extradition of WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange to the United […]
An Egyptian medical worker checks people's temperatures on the first day of vaccination against COVID-19 in Egypt, on March 4, 2021 in Cairo. (KHALED DESOUKI / AFP) LONDON / ZURICH / RABAT / CAIRO / NAIROBI / COPENHAGEN – Egypt on Thursday lifted all COVID-19-related entry restrictions for all travelers, whether Egyptians or foreigners. The decision was made […]
An Egyptian medical worker checks people's temperatures on the first day of vaccination against COVID-19 in Egypt, on March 4, 2021 in Cairo. (KHALED DESOUKI / AFP) LONDON / ZURICH / RABAT / CAIRO / NAIROBI / COPENHAGEN – Egypt on Thursday lifted all COVID-19-related entry restrictions for all travelers, whether Egyptians or foreigners. The decision was made […]
An image of former President Donald Trump is displayed during the third hearing of the US House Select Committee to Investigate the Jan 6 Attack on the US Capitol, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on June 16, 2022. (DREW ANGERER / POOL / AFP) WASHINGTON – Former president Donald Trump pressured his vice president, […]
An image of former President Donald Trump is displayed during the third hearing of the US House Select Committee to Investigate the Jan 6 Attack on the US Capitol, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on June 16, 2022. (DREW ANGERER / POOL / AFP) WASHINGTON – Former president Donald Trump pressured his vice president, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
(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 […]
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 […]
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'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 […]
Internally displaced people from Rutshuru territory in troubled DR Congo's North Kivu province lining up for lunch at the Nyakabande Holding area in Kisoro, Uganda, June 7, 2022 after being resettled by the government of Uganda following deadly fights between M23 rebels and DRC troops. (BADRU KATUMBA / AFP) GENEVA – A food security crisis […]
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 […]
President of Peru Pedro Castillo speaks at the IV CEO Summit of the Americas on the sidelines of the IX Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, California, on June 8, 2022. (PATRICK T. FALLON / AFP) LIMA – A video of a dancing Brazilian stripper interrupted a virtual public hearing of Peruvian President Pedro […]
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 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, […]
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 […]
