PALERMO, Italy – Italian police on Monday caught one of the most notorious bosses of the Sicilian Mafia, Matteo Messina Denaro, a ruthless operator who had been on the run for 30 years. This handout photo taken and released by the Italian Carabinieri Press Office on January 16, 2023, shows...
This handout image released by ENSTA Paris - Institut Polytechnique de Paris on January 16, 2023, shows a snapshot of a lightning event at Schwaegalp near Santis Mountain in Switzerland. A powerful laser aimed at the sky can create a virtual lightning rod and divert the path of lightning strikes, a...
Rescuers carry a body taken from the rubble of a residential building destroyed after a missile strike, in Dnipro on January 15, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The death toll rose to at least 20 on January 15 after a strike on a residential building in Dnipro on January 14, a city in...
DAVOS, Switzerland – The number of billionaires should be reduced by half by 2030 through higher taxes and other policies to make the world more equal, Oxfam said Monday as global elites meet in Davos. Bloomberg/File The aid group made its plea as the Swiss Alpine village hosts political...
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...
