South Africa’s Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor shakes hands with Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, ahead of their bilateral meeting in Pretoria, South Africa, January 23, 2023. Photographer Siphiwe Sibeko By Reuters South Africa’s foreign minister on Monday deflected criticism of joint military drills planned with Russia and China, saying that hosting such exercises with “friends”

By Anadolu Agency Canada will provide hundreds of Indigenous communities $2.8 billion in compensation for nearly a century of abuse suffered by children in residential schools, the government has announced. “Canada is committed to addressing the collective harm caused by the residential schools system and the loss of language, culture, and heritage – through this

Flowers are left near the scene of a shooting that took place during a Chinese Lunar New Year celebration, in Monterey Park, California, U.S. January 22, 2023. Photographer Allison Dinner By Reuters A 72-year-old gunman killed himself when approached by police on Sunday, about 12 hours after he had carried out a Lunar New Year

By Anadolu Agency Condemnations continued to pour in from across the Arab and Islamic worlds over the burning of a copy of the Quran, Islam’s holy book, by a Swedish-Danish right-wing extremist in the Swedish capital, Stockholm. Rasmus Paludan, the leader of the Stram Kurs (Hard Line) Party, under the protection of police and with

File- President Joe Biden speaks in the East Room of the White House to mayors who are attending the U.S. Conference of Mayors winter meeting in Washington, on Friday, Jan. 20, 2023. The FBI searched Biden’s home in Wilmington, Del., on Friday and located additional items consisting of documents with classified markings and also took

Police investigate a scene where a shooting took place in Monterey Park, Calif., Sunday, Jan. 22, 2023. Dozens of police officers responded to reports of a shooting that occurred after a large Lunar New Year celebration had ended in a community east of Los Angeles late Saturday. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) By The Associated Press

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi gestures as he leaves in a car after attending the funeral of his mother Heeraben, in Gandhinagar, India, December 30, 2022. Photogrpher Amit Dave By Reuters India has blocked the airing of a BBC documentary which questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership during the 2002 Gujarat riots, saying that even

File – French President Emmanuel Macron, right, welcomes German Chancellor Olaf Scholz at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Oct. 26, 2022. France and Germany are seeking to overcome differences laid bare by the Ukraine war and shore up their alliance with a day of ceremonies and talks Sunday, Jan. 22, 2023 on Europe’s security, energy

By Anadolu Agency Demonstrators continued Friday to demand the resignation of Peruvian President Dina Boluarte after six weeks of violent protests that have killed 59 people. Boluarte accused protestors of “vandalism” in a television address late Thursday after hundreds took to the streets in the country’s capital of Lima in the so-called “Takeover of Lima”

File – New Zealand’s COVID-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins speaks during a press conference in Wellington, New Zealand on Oct. 28, 2021. Education Minister Chris Hipkins is set to become New Zealand’s next prime minister after he was the only candidate to enter the race Saturday, Jan. 21, 2023 to replace Jacinda Ardern, who announced