BONN, Germany -- The head of the upcoming COP28 climate summit, who also is the chief executive of the UAE's national oil company, acknowledged Thursday that a reduction in the use of fossil fuels is inescapable. "The phase down of fossil fuels is inevitable," Sultan al-Jaber said on the sidelines...
PARIS, France -- People who took a cheap diabetes drug after testing positive for Covid-19 had a 40 percent lower risk of getting long Covid, a US-based study said Friday. The finding was hailed as a potential "landmark" in the fight against the still little-understood condition, which the World...
FAIZABAD, Afghanistan - At least 11 people were killed and 30 wounded by a blast Thursday at a funeral service for an Afghan acting provincial governor assassinated by a suicide bomber earlier this week, the ministry of interior said. "The Ministry of Interior of the IEA condemns this...
KHERSON, Ukraine - Ukraine said Thursday that at least one civilian was killed in Russian shelling of the Kherson city centre, as the region deals with massive flooding from the destruction of a dam in Russian-held territory. "Due to targeted strikes by the occupiers during evacuations in the...
LIBREVILLE, Gabon - The UN's health agency on Thursday declared an end to a nearly four-month epidemic of Marburg virus in Equatorial Guinea, saying the disease, a cousin of Ebola, had caused 35 confirmed or suspected deaths. "The outbreak of Marburg Virus Disease in Equatorial Guinea ended...
ANNECY, France - A man armed with a knife stabbed four preschool children and injured two adults by a lake in the French Alps on Thursday in an attack that sent shock waves through the country. The suspect is a Syrian in his early 30s who was granted refugee status in Sweden in April, a...
LONDON, United Kingdom - Britain announced Thursday new sanctions against Belarus, its latest punishment for the eastern European country's support of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and suppression of anti-government activists. London said the new curbs would hit Belarus exports that have...
Gjystina Grisha, a "Burrnesha" (sworn virgin), sits in front of a fire in her home in the mountain village of Lepushe, 200 km from Tirana, on May 25, 2023. (ORSOLA MEMA / AFP) LEPUSHE, Albania -- For decades, Gjystina Grishaj chopped wood, drove tractors and tended livestock as the man of the house...
GENEVA, Switzerland -- The World Health Organization will use the European Union's digital Covid pass as a basis for a global health certification system, according to a new partnership deal agreed Monday. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and EU health commissioner Stella Kyriakides signed what...
Members of the Tengger sub-ethnic group carries a goat for offering on the active Mount Bromo volcano as part of the Yadnya Kasada festival in Probolinggo, East Java province on June 5, 2023. (Juni Kriswanto / AFP) PROBOLINGGO, Indonesia -- Thousands of Hindu worshippers scaled an active Indonesian...
This handout photograph taken on June 5, 2023 and released by the Indian Ministry of Defence shows India's Defence Minister Rajnath Singh (R) and US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin (L) during their meeting in New Delhi. (Indian Ministry of Defence / AFP) NEW DELHI, India -- The United States and...
WASHINGTON, United States -- US officials said Monday there were no survivors from the Virginia crash of a small plane carrying four people, a day after the unresponsive aircraft prompted the scrambling of fighter jets from Washington. The Cessna Citation slammed into mountainous terrain Sunday...
