President of the UN Economic and Social Council Paula Narvaez (at the podium and on the screens) speaks during the Sustainable Development Goals Summit at the UN headquarters in New York, on Sept. 18, 2023. (Xinhua) UNITED NATIONS -- World leaders on Monday reaffirmed their commitment...
KYIV, Ukraine– Kyiv on Monday said it had filed lawsuits at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) against its three EU neighbours -- Poland, Slovakia and Hungary -- over their bans on Ukrainian grain imports. The Central European countries went against a decision by the European Commission...
Pope Francis waves at the end of a private audience with Carabinieri's officers at the Vatican on September 16, 2023. Pope Francis called for humanity to unify in the face of climate disaster "before it's too late" during an address on the sidelines of the United Nations on September 18, 2023. The...
People gather for a demonstration outside the surviving Al-Sahaba mosque in Libya's eastern city of Derna on September 18, 2023, as they protest against government neglect to the two dams which broke and led to the deadly flash floods that hit the city the prior week. A week after a tsunami-sized...
TOKYO, Japan -- One out of 10 people in Japan is now aged 80 or older, while the ratio of elderly to the total population rose to a record high, ministry data showed Sunday. Pedestrians walk at Shinjuku station in Tokyo, Japan, Nov. 15, 2022. (Xinhua) Japan's elderly citizens, defined as those aged...
LOS ANGELES, United States - The United States has started the phase 1 clinical trial of a new investigational universal flu vaccine candidate, the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced on Friday. photo shows a medical worker administering a dose of flu vaccine to a recipient at a...
BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan- Two Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut docked with the International Space Station on Friday after blasting off from Baikonur amid raging tensions between Moscow and Washington over Ukraine. The Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft carrying the International Space Station (ISS)...
KHARTOUM, Sudan - Concerns about the risk of fragmentation in Sudan began to loom larger after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) Commander Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo stated his intention to form a parallel government. In an audio speech posted Thursday evening on the social media platform X,...
WAYNE, United States - Workers at the "Big Three" auto manufacturers went on strike Friday in a first-ever coordinated action to demand pay raises, winning strong support from President Joe Biden whose pro-union stand is crucial to his 2024 re-election hopes. UAW Union members picket outside the...
BEIRUT, Lebanon- Two women fighters of a military council linked to the US-backed, Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces were killed in a Turkish drone strike Friday, their command said. Ankara routinely carries out drone strikes against targets in Kurdish-controlled areas of Syria and neighbouring...
This picture taken on September 13, 2023 and released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on September 14 shows North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un (C) and Russia's President Vladimir Putin (4th L) visitng the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia's Amur region. (Photo by KCNA VIA KNS...
UNITED NATIONS, United States– The United Nations chief on Wednesday urged world leaders due to convene next week to save a planet in crisis as it grapples with climate change, war, inflation, inequality and other woes. "People are looking to their leaders for a way out of this mess,"...
