MOSCOW, Russia—A court in the Russian Far North will next month hear a case brought by the mother of dead opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who has been prevented from seeing his body, his allies said Wednesday. A portrait of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died in a...
A customer walks out from a Daiso shop at a shopping mall in Shinjuku district of Tokyo on February 20, 2024. Hirotake Yano, the Japanese 100-yen shop pioneer and the founder of the Daiso chain, has died, the company said. (Photo by Philip FONG / AFP) TOKYO, Japan– Hirotake Yano, the...
In this pool photograph distributed by Russian state agency Sputnik, Russia's President Vladimir Putin visits Uralvagonzavod, the country's main tank factory in the Urals, in Nizhny Tagil on February 15, 2024. (Photo by Ramil SITDIKOV / POOL / AFP) SEOUL, South Korea– Russian President...
This photograph taken on February 6, 2024 shows employees working at Greenlab Diamonds, a firm manufacturing lab-grown gems on the outskirts of Surat. Man-made gems are reshaping the $89 billion global diamond jewellery market, especially in the west Indian city of Surat where 90 percent of...
A boy accompanied by his father receives a dose of the measles and rubella vaccine from medical personnel at a community health center in the Lidice neighborhood of Caracas, on August 17, 2022. Measles cases went up 79 percent worldwide in 2023, the World Health Organization announced on February...
US climate envoy John Kerry (L) and French Minister for the Economy and Finances Bruno Le Maire attend the International Energy Agency (IEA) 2024 ministerial meeting and 50th Anniversary event, in Paris on February 13, 2024. Energy and climate ministers from around the world will meet in Paris on...
People cross a busy street in Milan's city center on February 20, 2024. Gas-guzzling cars were banned from roads Tuesday in Milan and eight other cities across Lombardy after the northern Italian industrial region registered high levels of particle pollution dangerous for health. (Photo by GABRIEL...
This handout satellite picture taken and released by Maxar Technologies on February 15, 2024 shows machinery building a wall along the Egypt-Gaza Strip border in Rafah, Egypt. Hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians have been driven into Gaza's southernmost city by Israel's relentless...
Women hold candles and posters reading 'If I had did it in Moscow they will have put me under arrest' ' for Navalny, for freedom' during a vigil in honor of Kremlin's critic Alexei Navalny following is death, on February 19, 2024 in front of Rome's city hall. Russia reported Navalny's death in an...
People bring flowers and candles for a vigil in honor of Kremlin's critic Alexei Navalny following is death, on February 19, 2024 in front of Rome's city hall. Russia reported Navalny's death in an arctic prison on February 16, 2024 and his mother has been denied access to the body, enraging...
Italian restorer Eleonora Pucci cleans Michelangelo's statue of David using a backpack vacuum and synthetic fiber brush at the Galleria dell'Accademia, in Florence on February 19, 2024. (AFP) FLORENCE, Italy -- Even the David gets dusty. Every two months, Michelangelo's masterpiece completed...
HUNGRY CHILDREN – Displaced Palestinian children gather to receive food at a government school in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on February 19, 2024, amid the ongoing battles between Israel and the militant group Hamas. (AFP) GENEVA, Switzerland -- An alarming lack of...
