Category: Africa and the rest of the world

US President Joe Biden (C) shakes hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) prior to the US-Russia summit at the Villa La Grange, in Geneva on June 16, 2021. (Photo by Peter Klaunzer/Pool/ AFP) There was no talk of gazing into Vladimir Putin’s “soul” and the Russian president didn’t try to gaslight a rookie US […]

(Photo by Handout / Office of Congressman Henry Cuellar (TX-28) / AFP) President Joe Biden’s administration on Tuesday broadened the range of legal guardians who can apply to care for migrant children, in a new step to address an influx of young Central Americans seeking safety in the United States. The so-called Central American Minors […]

This file photo taken on September 24, 2020 shows a physical imitation of a Bitcoin at a crypto currency “Bitcoin Change” shop, near Grand Bazaar, in Istanbul. – Bitcoin soared above $50,000 for the first time on February 16, 2021, after surging by almost 75 percent this year as heavyweight companies lend their support to […]

President Joe Biden’s Justice Department wants to defend Donald Trump against a defamation lawsuit by an American columnist who says the ex-president raped her. The bizarre twist in the case brought by E. Jean Carroll was revealed in a document filed by Justice Department lawyers to an appeals court in New York on Monday. The […]

Banished from social networks but no less influential among the Republican faithful, Donald Trump was set to return to the stage Saturday for his first speech in months as he flirts ever more openly with a new presidential run in 2024. “I understand the place will be packed, all records broken!” the former president, his […]

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas gives press conference on May 28, 2021 in Berlin. – Germany for the first time on Friday May 28, 2021 recognised it had committed genocide in Namibia during its colonial occupation, with Berlin promising financial support worth more than one billion euros to aid projects in the African nation. “We […]

Goma residents are seen boarding a ferry after an evacuation order has been given on May 27, 2021. – The authorities in Goma, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), on Thursday morning ordered the evacuation of part of the city because of the risk of eruption of the Nyiragongo volcano, immediately […]

The International Space Station (ISS) photographed by Expedition 56 crew members from a Soyuz spacecraft after undocking, October 2018. NASA/Roscosmos Russia’s space agency said Thursday it was sending an actress and a director to the International Space Station in October to make the first feature film in space. “Filming will take place at the International […]

Security forces and police escort the ambulance carrying Maldives’ former president Mohamed Nasheed, who was seriously wounded in an assassination attempt on May 6, as he is directed to the international airport to fly to Germany, in Male on May 13, 2021. (Photo by Hussain Waheed/ AFP) Former Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed, who was seriously […]