A boy accompanied by his father receives a dose of the measles and rubella vaccine from medical personnel at a community health center in the Lidice neighborhood of Caracas, on August 17, 2022. Measles cases went up 79 percent worldwide in 2023, the World Health Organization announced on February...
US climate envoy John Kerry (L) and French Minister for the Economy and Finances Bruno Le Maire attend the International Energy Agency (IEA) 2024 ministerial meeting and 50th Anniversary event, in Paris on February 13, 2024. Energy and climate ministers from around the world will meet in Paris on...
People cross a busy street in Milan's city center on February 20, 2024. Gas-guzzling cars were banned from roads Tuesday in Milan and eight other cities across Lombardy after the northern Italian industrial region registered high levels of particle pollution dangerous for health. (Photo by GABRIEL...
This handout satellite picture taken and released by Maxar Technologies on February 15, 2024 shows machinery building a wall along the Egypt-Gaza Strip border in Rafah, Egypt. Hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians have been driven into Gaza's southernmost city by Israel's relentless...
Women hold candles and posters reading 'If I had did it in Moscow they will have put me under arrest' ' for Navalny, for freedom' during a vigil in honor of Kremlin's critic Alexei Navalny following is death, on February 19, 2024 in front of Rome's city hall. Russia reported Navalny's death in an...
People bring flowers and candles for a vigil in honor of Kremlin's critic Alexei Navalny following is death, on February 19, 2024 in front of Rome's city hall. Russia reported Navalny's death in an arctic prison on February 16, 2024 and his mother has been denied access to the body, enraging...
Italian restorer Eleonora Pucci cleans Michelangelo's statue of David using a backpack vacuum and synthetic fiber brush at the Galleria dell'Accademia, in Florence on February 19, 2024. (AFP) FLORENCE, Italy -- Even the David gets dusty. Every two months, Michelangelo's masterpiece completed...
HUNGRY CHILDREN – Displaced Palestinian children gather to receive food at a government school in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on February 19, 2024, amid the ongoing battles between Israel and the militant group Hamas. (AFP) GENEVA, Switzerland -- An alarming lack of...
KABUL, Afghanistan—A landslide caused by heavy snowfall has killed 25 people and injured eight others in the eastern Afghan province of Nuristan, a disaster management ministry spokesman said on Monday. Earth, snow and rubble swept through the village of Nakre in the Tatin valley of Nuristan...
YANGON, Myanmar—Myanmar's junta has sentenced to death three high-ranking officers who oversaw the surrender of a strategic town on the Chinese border to ethnic minority fighters last month, military sources told AFP. Hundreds of troops put down their weapons and handed over the town of...
HONG KONG, China—Fourteen people went on trial Monday in Hong Kong for allegedly planning to carry out a bomb attack to murder police officers during pro-democracy protests in 2019, with prosecutors invoking the city's anti-terrorism act. A man walks through the entrance to the High Court in...
WARSAW, Poland—Alexei Navalny's widow Yulia Navalnaya on Monday accused President Vladimir Putin of killing her husband and vowed to continue his work, three days after he died in a Russian Arctic prison. Protestors hold up placards, one which reads "We will go on" at a memorial on February...
