Media report in front of destored building after a deadly 30-hour siege by the al Shabaab group at Hayat Hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia on Aug 21, 2022. (HASSAN ALI ELMI / AFP) MOGADISHU – The US military said on Wednesday it had killed 27 fighters from the al Shabaab militant group in an air strike […]
This picture released by the Italian firefighters shows an aerial view of the Senigallia area after floods hit Marche region, central-east Italy, Sept 16, 2022. (ITALIAN FIREFIGHTERS – VIGILI DEL FUOCO VIA AP) CANTIANO, Italy – At least 10 people were killed by torrential overnight rains and floods in the central Italian region of Marche, […]
Firefighters try to extinguish a fire set by demonstrators during a protest in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Aug 22, 2022. (ODELYN JOSEPH / AP) PORT-AU-PRINCE – Thousands of Haitians on Monday joined rallies around the Caribbean country to protest rampant crime and soaring consumer prices as its central bank reported that inflation had hit a 10-year […]
A forest fire reaches olive trees in the village of Colmeias, near Leiria, central Portugal, July 13, 2022. (ARMANDO FRANCA / AP) LEIRIA, Portugal – Thousands of firefighters battled more than 20 blazes that raged on Wednesday across Portugal and western Spain, menacing villages and disrupting tourists' holidays amid a heat wave that pushed temperatures […]
A man counts a wad of the new Zimbabwean ten-dollar notes received from an ATM outside a bank in Harare on May 20, 2020. (JEKESAI NJIKIZANA / AFP) HARARE – Zimbabwe's central bank said it would start selling gold coins this month as a store of value to tame runaway inflation, which has considerably weakened […]
