A Covid-19 testing tent sits along a Manhattan street on March 09, 2023 in New York City. Three years since the outbreak of the global pandemic, which resulted in the deaths of millions of people, many parts are the world are nearly back to normal with few mask restrictions and falling...
This illustration photo created in Washington, DC, on July 24, 2023, shows the Twitter page of Elon Musk in front of the new X Twitter logo and old bird Twitter logo. (Photo by Stefani Reynolds / AFP) SAN FRANCISCO , United States -- Elon Musk on Tuesday lifted a ban on political ads put in place...
Graves are seen in the municipal cemetery of Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada, July 28, 2022. (Photo by Anne-Sophie THILL / AFP) MONTREAL, Canada -- An Indigenous community in western Canada has discovered nearly 100 suspected unmarked graves near the site of a former residential school, officials said...
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) released videos and photos on Tuesday of water cascading into the Times Square-42nd Street station in the heart of Manhattan at around 03:00 am (07:00 GMT). Photo from MTA on X (formerly Twitter) NEW YORK, United States - New York's best-known and...
A member of the Cuban Red Cross works on a flooded street in Batabano, Mayabeque province, Cuba on August 29, 2023, during the passage of tropical storm Idalia. (Photo by YAMIL LAGE / AFP) ST. PETERSBURG, United States -- Hurricane Idalia intensified late Tuesday as it hurtled towards northwest...
A view of a damaged office block of the Moscow International Business Center (Moskva City) following a reported drone attack in Moscow on July 30, 2023. (Photo by Alexander NEMENOV / AFP) MOSCOW, Russia -- A Russian airport near the border with Estonia came under drone attack, the local...
MOSCOW, Russia - Russian President Vladimir Putin will not go to the funeral of Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, who died last week in a plane crash, the Kremlin said Tuesday. Prigozhin -- a Putin confidant turned "traitor" -- was killed last Wednesday two months after ordering...
VATICAN CITY, Holy See - The Vatican sought Tuesday to defuse a row with Ukraine after Kyiv accused Pope Francis of spreading "imperial propaganda" in a video message to young Catholic Russians. The pope told the group gathered in a Catholic church in St Petersburg that "you are children of...
PARIS, France - Nearly 2,000 people have been convicted in France over nationwide riots sparked in late June by the fatal police shooting of a teenager during a traffic stop near Paris, Justice Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti said on Tuesday. The minister had called for a "rapid, firm and...
BRUSSELS, Belgium - A forest blaze in Greece is "the largest wildfire ever recorded in the EU" and the bloc is mobilizing nearly half its firefighting air wing to tackle it, a European Commission spokesman said Tuesday. (Photo from AFP) Eleven planes and one helicopter from the EU fleet have...
SAN FRANCISCO, United States - Meta on Tuesday said it purged thousands of Facebook accounts that were part of a widespread online Chinese spam operation trying to covertly boost China and criticize the West. The campaign, which became known as "Spamouflage", was active across more than 50...
This picture shows a general view of the Emergency & Trauma Center of the Royal Darwin Hospital in Darwin on August 27, 2023, as rescue work in progress to transport those injured in the US Osprey military aircraft crash at a remote island north of Australia's mainland. Three US Marines died on...
