A schedule of flights at John F. Kennedy International Airport on January 11, 2023, in New York. (Yuki IWAMURA / AFP) NEW YORK, United States – Aviation authorities were racing Wednesday to figure out what caused the outage of a crucial alert system that forced the temporary halt on all US...
Police officers stand guard outside their station in Puno, in southern Peru, as a precaution measure after hundreds of supporters of ousted president Pedro Castillo were spotted heading to this city by Lake Titicaca on January 9, 2023. (Juan Carlos CISNEROS / AFP) PUNO, Peru -- Peru on Tuesday...
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka's treasury is running out of funds as a serious economic crisis continues to affect the the South Asian island nation, the country's cabinet spokesman said on Tuesday. People queue up to get kerosene for cooking due to the gas shortage in Colombo, Sri Lanka, June 17,...
Harry's memoir criticizes his father King Charles III, brother William, stepmother and now Queen Consort Camilla and his sister-in-law Kate. (JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP) LONDRES, United Kingdom – Prince Harry claims he had no intention of damaging the British royal family with his autobiography,...
Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (AFP/File) LONDRES, United Kingdom – UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida will sign a "hugely significant" new defense agreement when the pair meet in London on Wednesday, Downing Street said. The two leaders will also...
WASHINGTON, United States – US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on Tuesday rescinded the Pentagon's Covid-19 vaccine mandate, a move required by Congress over his objections as part of the 2023 defense spending bill. US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin (AFP/File) Austin wrote in a memo...
Hurricane Ian slammed into Florida on 28 September 2022, costing $112.9bn in damages. (NASA Earth Observatory/AFP) WASHINGTON, United States – Major hurricanes, wildfires, tornadoes, drought and a fierce winter storm caused more than $165 billion in damage in the United States last year with...
UNITED NATIONS, United States – An estimated five million children under the age of five died in 2021, the United Nations said Tuesday, urging health care investment in underserved communities around the globe to avoid this "immense, intolerable and mostly preventable loss of life." Children...
This aerial view shows two cars siting in a large sinkhole that opened during a day of relentless rain, on January 10, 2023 in the Chatsworth neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. A massive storm has caused widespread flooding throughout the state. (Robyn BECK / AFP) MONTECITO, United States...
Acehnesse fishermen help evacuate Rohingya children from Myanmar onto the shorelines of Lancok village, in Indonesia's North Aceh Regency on June 25, 2020. (AFP) YANGON, Myanmar – Myanmar authorities have sentenced 112 Rohingya, including a dozen children, to between two and five years in...
BANGKOK, Thailand – Thailand's embattled Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha vowed Monday to fix the kingdom's problems as he launched his re-election bid at a major rally in the capital Bangkok. The move unofficially kicks off months of campaigning ahead of expected polls in the year, where...
Photo: Xinhua News Agency RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- Saudi Arabia announced on Monday its plan to bring the number of pilgrims during the upcoming Hajj season back to the pre-pandemic level. "The number of pilgrims will return to what it was before the pandemic, without any age limit," Saudi Minister...
