Buildings are seen in the haze caused by air pollution in Jakarta on August 25, 2023. (Photo by Yasuyoshi CHIBA/ AFP) PARIS, France– People in poorer countries are disproportionately suffering from air pollution spewed from the increasing scourge of fires in forests and fields around...
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz addresses the 78th United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York City on September 19, 2023. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP) BERLIN, Germany– Germany is considering a ban on parts made by Chinese manufacturers Huawei and ZTE in its 5G...
NEW YORK, United States -- Joe Biden, America's oldest ever president, said Monday he understood a focus on his age but that he was running for re-election because Donald Trump wanted to "destroy" US democracy. US President Joe Biden (AFP) The 80-year-old usually avoids the age issue but addressed...
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...
