Europe’s wholesale natural gas prices fell Monday to their lowest level since Russia invaded Ukraine, which had driven them to a record high last year. A mild winter has enabled countries to tap less gas from stocks that were built up in anticipation of cuts in supplies from Russia, which was Europe’s main supplier before […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s New Year’s address to the nation usually is rather anodyne and backed with a soothing view of a snowy Kremlin. This year, with soldiers in the background, he lashed out at the West and Ukraine. The conflict in Ukraine cast a long shadow as Russia entered 2023. Cities curtailed festivities and […]
Countries around the world have celebrated New Year, after two years of muted or cancelled events due to the Covid pandemic. Celebrations have taken place on the east coast of the United States, and in Brazil, Argentina and the Caribbean. Cities across Europe, Africa and Asia have also held firework-filled festivities marking the start of […]
Pope Francis will preside over the Funeral Mass for Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI in St. Peter’s Square on Thursday, The Vatican has said. It will be an unprecedented event in which a current pope will celebrate the funeral for a former one. In an update from the Director of The Vatican Press office on the death […]
Mr António Guterres, the United Nations Secretary-General, says the world needs peace in 2023 more than ever. The Secretary-General in his Annual New Message, which was made available to the Ghana News Agency by the UN, said every New Year was a moment of rebirth and that in 2023, people must put peace at the […]
East African and African Union officials arrived in the Tigray region of Ethiopia to launch a joint monitoring and verification mechanism for a peace deal signed in November to end the two-year war. The mediating team, led by former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo and Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, as well as African Union representatives and […]
A Myanmar military court has sentenced Aung San Suu Kyi to a further seven years in prison, taking her overall jail time to 33 years. The country’s former democratically-elected leader has been under house arrest since a military ousted her government in a coup in February 2021. Since then she’s faced 18 months of trials […]
An air raid alert has been issued across Ukraine, as a fresh wave of Russian missiles targets major cities. Presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak said more than 120 missiles had been launched at the population and civilian infrastructure. At least three people – including a 14-year-old girl – were taken to hospital after explosions hit the […]
Lucy Kassa never expected to be a war correspondent. Working for a Norwegian magazine, the freelance journalist wrote about issues related to development and the economy in Ethiopia. But then fighting broke out in her home region of Tigray, in Ethiopia’s north. “I had a different dream for my life. It was never my plan […]
Federal health officials have announced that, because of the surge in coronavirus cases in China, nearly all airline passengers from the country will have to provide proof of a negative COVID-19 test to enter the United States starting January 5. The only exceptions will be those younger than age 2. The U.S. move follows similar […]
