Day: May 20, 2023

Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attends a meeting during the G7 Leaders' Summit in Hiroshima, western Japan on May 19, 2023. On the same day, Canada announced new sanctions against Russia. (PHOTO / AP) OTTAWA – Canada announced new sanctions against Russia on Friday. According to a news release on...

In this Oct 18, 2020 file photo, families of COVID-19 victims who passed away in New York nursing homes gather in front of the Cobble Hill Heath Center in the Brooklyn borough of New York, to demand New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo's apology for his response to nursing homes...

This March 10, 2022 photo shows the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia. (PHOTO / XINHUA) MOSCOW – An additional 500 American citizens, including former US President Barack Obama, have been indefinitely barred from entering Russia, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced on Friday. Among the newly blacklisted are significant figures, officials, lawmakers,...

A Nigerian police officer stops a car at a security checkpoint in Awka, Nigeria, on Feb 26, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) LAGOS — Two US consulate employees who were kidnapped by gunmen in Nigeria's southern state of Anambra have been rescued by the police, a police spokesperson said on Friday....

This photo taken on May 11, 2022 shows women filling their pitchers with water supplied by a special train on a hot summer day in Pali, India. (PHOTO / AFP) AHMEDABAD, India - A bright sun beat down on the sprawling Indian market where Kamlaben Ashokbhai Patni sat worrying about...

In this file photo dated April 30, 2020, Bosnian baker Suad Aljovic picks-up freshly prepared traditional flat bread "Somun", in a bakery in old town, Sarajevo. (PHOTO / AFP) SARAJEVO — Bosnia hopes that its geographic position will help it increase exports of its halal certified food products to European...