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On Thursday morning, the White House Press Office announced that U.S. President Joe Biden tested positivefor COVID-19. | Drew Angerer/Getty Images President Joe Biden and his doctor both delivered upbeat health updates on Monday, four days after Biden tested positive for Covid. “I’m feeling great. You know, I’ve had two full nights of sleep — […]

KRYVYI RIH, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast – The country’s industrial heavyweight, Kryvyi Rih is known globally for its metallurgy and iron exports. But it’s not only the metal industry that keeps the city of 600,000 people running. Machine-building, construction, chemical, woodworking, and textile industries provide thousands of jobs for locals. A worker of ArcelorMittal, Ukraine’s largest steel company, […]

The UK on Monday said it was “prioritising essential overseas aid funding” such as help for Ukraine, after a report that it had halted “non-essential” relief abroad following Russia’s invasion.  This handout picture taken and released by Ukrainian Presidential Press-Service on June 17, 2022, shows Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (R) welcoming Britain’s Prime Minister Boris […]

Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi received his Somali counterpart, Hassan Sheikh Mahmoud, in Cairo on Monday. During their meeting, both leaders affirmed their mutual interest in advancing bilateral cooperation and working together to consolidate security and stability in the Horn of Africa. Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi received his Somali counterpart, Hassan Sheikh Mahmoud, in […]

Thousands of Indigenous persons are expected to converge on Monday on the small Alberta prairie community of Maskwacis to hear a long-awaited apology from Pope Francis for generations of abuse and cultural suppression at Catholic residential schools across Canada. Pope Francis kisses the hand of residential school survivor Elder Alma Desjarlais of the Frog Lake […]

The Turkish Red Crescent (Kizilay) is helping ease the impact of a severe drought in parts of Somalia by distributing food aid and hot meals. “We provide 3,195 hot meals daily from our soup kitchen in Mogadishu which are distributed to 20 different locations in the city,” Rusen Cetinkaya, head of the Turkish Red Crescent […]

President Emmanuel Macron on Monday begins a three-nation tour of western African states in the first trip to Africa of his new term as he seeks to reboot France’s post-colonial relationship with the continent. French President Emmanuel Macron awaiting the arrival of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, July […]

For Immediate Release Sunday, July 24, 2022 The United States, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), is providing an additional $476 million in critical humanitarian and development assistance to the people of Somalia as a historically unprecedented drought pushes more than 7 million people to the edge of starvation. With this announcement, the […]

It’s been nearly a month since U.S.-provided High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, or HIMARS, had their long-awaited debut in Ukraine, but their combat record is already extensive. Using all the heavy and long-range weaponry available to it, including HIMARS, Ukraine began a campaign that has destroyed dozens of significant fuel and munition depots in occupied parts […]

Turkey’s Defense Ministry said coordination efforts continue for the first vessel loaded with grain to depart from Ukraine’s Black Sea ports as part of a recently signed deal. Firefighters work to put out a fire in a sea port in Odessa, southern Ukraine in this handout photo released by Odessa City Hall Press Office on […]