AFP/Editor IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva on Thursday called for adoption of “an international carbon price floor” for large emitters such as the G20 countries in...
AFP/Editor The House of Representatives voted Thursday to make the US capital Washington the nation’s 51st state, but the historic effort is widely expected to fail...
AFP/Editor The Italian government said Wednesday it plans to gradually lift Covid-19 restrictions from next week, with restaurants and movie theatres set to reopen. Authorities said...
AFP/Editor Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel said Wednesday that the European Union needs more power to coordinate the bloc’s response to health crises like the coronavirus pandemic,...
AFP/Editor Russian President Vladimir Putin called communist Cuba’s new leader Miguel Diaz-Canel Tuesday to discuss strengthening the two countries’ “strategic partnership,” the Russian foreign ministry said...
AFP/Editor Sacked police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of murder and manslaughter Tuesday in the death of African-American George Floyd in a case that roiled the...
AFP/Editor wo years into a malaria vaccine pilot scheme, more than 650,000 children have been immunised across Kenya, Ghana and Malawi, the World Health Organization said...
AFP/Editor Real Madrid president Florentino Perez said on Tuesday that plans by 12 clubs including the Spanish giants to form a European Super League (ESL) were...