GRANADA — Some 50 European leaders attending a summit in southern Spain's Granada on Thursday have stressed they stand by Ukraine as Western resolve appears somewhat weakened. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that maintaining such unity was now “the main challenge.”
BRUSSELS - European Union countries on Wednesday overcame a major obstacle in their yearslong quest to overhaul the bloc’s asylum rules amid warnings that time is running out to clinch agreement on the entire scheme before next year’s EU elections.
PORT-AU-PRINCE — Haitians on Tuesday welcomed news that the United Nations Security Council had approved the deployment of an international armed force to the Caribbean nation.
CAPE TOWN - The South African government and the national poultry association Tuesday said approximately 7.5 million chickens were culled in an effort to contain outbreaks of two separate strains of bird flu that have threatened to create a shortage of eggs and meat for consumers.
STOCKHOLM - Two scientists have won the Nobel Prize in medicine for discoveries that enabled the creation of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.
Tunisian President on Monday rejected an installment of funds sent by Europe to help the North African country patrol the Mediterranean Sea, emphasizing that while he welcomes cooperation, he does not seek "handouts."
STOCKHOLM - Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics for their work on how electrons zip around the atom during the tiniest fractions of seconds.
NAIROBI — Kenya's president William Ruto Tuesday welcomed the U.N. Security Council's resolution to send a multinational armed force led by the East African nation to Haiti to help combat violent gangs.
GOMA, CONGO - A military court sentenced a Congolese military colonel to death and convicted three soldiers following the deaths of more than 50 people who were protesting the U.N. peacekeeping mission earlier this year.
ABUJA - Residents said an explosion and fire at an illegal oil refinery site in Nigeria's Niger Delta region killed at least 15 people.
LONDON — The World Health Organization, WHO, authorized a second malaria vaccine on Monday, a decision that could offer countries a cheaper and more readily available option than the world's first shot against the parasitic disease.
ALBANY, NY - New York Attorney General Letitia James is no stranger to picking fights with powerful targets. Just ask Donald Trump. James has sued the Republican former president dozens of times and is now behind a lawsuit in which a judge this week ruled that Trump committed fraud for years to inflate his real estate empire.
WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden -- accompanied by actor and disability rights advocate Selma Blair -- on Monday helped mark the legacy of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Rehabilitation Act.
SAN JUAN — The U.N. Security Council is scheduling a vote for Monday on a resolution that would authorize a one-year deployment of an international force led by Kenya to help Haiti fight surging gang violence and improve security so the troubled Caribbean nation can hold long-delayed elections.
HARARE — The death toll from a shaft collapse at a disused gold mine in Zimbabwe was expected to rise to 13, the vice president said, according to state media.
OUAGADOUGOU - When he seized power, Captain Ibrahim Traore set himself "two to three months" to improve security in Burkina Faso, but one year on, jihadist attacks still plague the West African nation.
ABUJA - Nigeria’s leader has increased the wages of some government workers in last-minute efforts to appease labor unions whose planned strike this week could shut down government offices in all sectors of Africa’s largest economy.
The science of evolution has made big leaps in recent years, and is painting a new picture of human origins.
LAS VEGAS — Duane "Keffe D" Davis, the last living suspect in connection to the 1996 killing of multi-award-winning U.S. musician and actor Tupac Shakur, was arrested and charged with murder Friday in a long-awaited breakthrough in one of hip-hop's most enduring mysteries.
The director of the United Nations International Organization for Migration office has expressed concern over the rise in "discrimination, xenophobic attacks, and negative narratives against migrants and refugees" along the Mediterranean route.
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