Visit News
|
By AFP
Washington -
President Donald Trump on Wednesday hailed his "outstanding relationship" with his Mexican counterpart Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador as he welcomed him to the White House for the leaders' first one-on-one meeting.
|
|
By AFP
Oswiecim -
Stony-faced and dressed in black, Germany's chancellor walked in silence along the railway tracks that brought prisoners to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp.
|
|
By AFP
Ayutthaya -
Setting foot in a powerful Buddhist kingdom more than three centuries ago, fearless European missionaries built a church on the banks of a river -- the birthplace of a Catholic community in Thailand which eagerly awaits the arrival of Pope Francis on W...
|
|
By AFP
Lahore -
A fierce storm in Islamabad forced a plane carrying Britain's Prince William and his wife Kate to abandon two landings before returning to Lahore late Thursday, reporters travelling with them said, in a dramatic end to a day of cracking cricket balls a...
|
|
By AFP
Wearing traditional headgear and clapping to music, Britain's Prince William and his wife Kate met a tiny animist tribe in northern Pakistan on Wednesday, after flying by helicopter to a remote Hindu Kush glacier near the Afghan border.
|
|
By AFP
Islamabad -
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan gave a warm welcome in Islamabad Tuesday to Britain's Prince William, the son of his late friend Princess Diana, who is on his first official trip to the country with his wife Kate.
|
|
By AFP
Islamabad -
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan gave a warm welcome in Islamabad Tuesday to Britain's Prince William, the son of his late friend Princess Diana, who is on his first official trip to the country with his wife Kate.
|
|
By AFP
Antananarivo -
Pope Francis, visiting Madagascar on his three-nation African tour, finds himself in a country where Catholicism remains strong but faces a rising challenge from evangelical Protestantism.
|
|
By AFP
Islamabad -
Prince William and his wife Kate will visit Pakistan later this year on the first royal trip to the country in more than a decade, Kensington Palace announced Sunday.
|
|
By AFP
Skopje -
Pope Francis called on the Western Balkans to embrace its patchwork of faiths and ethnicities during a visit to North Macedonia on Tuesday, saying "respect for diversity" is key to the region's efforts to integrate with Europe.
|
|
By AFP
Sofia -
Pope Francis urged Bulgarians to open their hearts and doors to refugees as he began a visit to the European Union's poorest country, where the main Orthodox Church snubbed holding joint prayers with the pontiff.
|
|
By AFP
Vatican City -
Pope Francis begins a Balkan visit on Sunday in Bulgaria, a country with a tiny Catholic community where the Orthodox Church has rejected the idea of holding joint prayers with the pontiff.
|
|
By AFP
Hanoi -
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un kicked off an official visit to Vietnam Friday, three days after arriving in the country for a nuclear summit with US President Donald Trump that ended deadlocked.
|
|
By AFP
Seoul -
High-profile visits to reclusive North Korea are rare, but over the years it has hosted a handful of top US officials as well as the occasional religious leader and sporting star.
|
|
By AFP
Mingora -
Malala Yousafzai visited the Swat valley Saturday for her first trip back to the once militant-infested Pakistani region where she was shot in the head by the Taliban more than five years ago.
|
|
By AFP
Mingora -
Malala Yousafzai landed in the Swat valley Saturday for her first visit back to the once militant-infested Pakistani region where she was shot in the head by the Taliban more than five years ago.
|
|
By AFP
Islamabad -
Malala Yousafzai plans to return to Pakistan permanently once her studies are completed, she told Pakistani media in Islamabad Friday, the second day of her emotional trip back more than five years after being shot by Taliban gunmen.
|
|
By AFP
Islamabad -
Malala Yousafzai's whereabouts in Pakistan were being kept a tightly-guarded secret Friday, one day after her emotional return more than five years after being shot by Taliban gunmen.
|
|
By AFP
London -
US President Donald Trump agreed with Prime Minister Theresa May on Thursday that he would make his long-planned trip to Britain later this year, her office said.
|
|
By AFP
Kabul -
Vice President Mike Pence told US troops in Afghanistan Thursday that they have put the Taliban on the run, as he became the most senior Trump administration official to visit the men and women fighting America's longest-ever war.
|
|
By AFP
Jerusalem -
US President Donald Trump's trip to Israel and the Palestinian territories saw the unpredictable leader tightly following protocol, but a few moments provided low-scale scandal and humour.
|
|
By AFP
Ise -
World leaders indulged in a spot of tourism Thursday, wandering through an ancient shrine, in a visit that took them to the heart of Japan's native Shinto religion.
|
|
Midrand -
Three countries — South Africa and Namibia on the one hand, Hungary on the other — separated by language, culture, history and most of all, geography, renewed their ties last week on both the official and the unofficial level.
|
|
By AFP
London -
A speech by Queen Elizabeth II warning against "division" in Europe as Prime Minister David Cameron plans a referendum on Britain's EU membership was interpreted by British media on Thursday as a political statement.
|
|
By AFP
Vatican City -
Pope Francis flies into Sarajevo on Saturday bearing a message of reconciliation 20 years after peace accords which ended Bosnia's war but left the country divided on ethnic lines."I come amongst you ...
|
|
By AFP
Seoul -
North Korea on Wednesday cancelled an invitation to UN chief Ban Ki-moon to visit an industrial zone inside the isolated state, in an abrupt move that Ban deplored as "deeply regrettable".
|
|
By AFP
Berlin -
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she was going Wednesday to the French Alpine region where a German passenger plane crashed, killing all 150 people on board.
|
|
By AFP
Moscow -
The Kremlin on Wednesday confirmed that North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un will attend World War II ceremonies in Moscow in May, in what would be his first foreign trip since taking power in 2011.
|
|
By AFP
Washington -
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, for years barred from visiting the United States, will meet President Barack Obama in two days of eagerly awaited White House talks at the end of the month.
|
|
By AFP
Washington -
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was for years barred from visiting the United States, will meet President Barack Obama at the White House on September 29-30, US officials said Monday.
|
apis-421474 apis-409115 apis-408071 apis-405842 apis-405763 apis-405713 apis-405679 apis-403124 apis-398555 apis-394498 apis-394357 apis-394222 apis-389351 apis-363854 apis-362403 apis-362400 apis-362367 apis-362315 apis-356582 apis-353924 apis-335672 apis-306933 apis-300987 apis-276149 apis-274278 apis-273005 apis-268173 apis-263466 apis-251256 apis-251241
Visit Image
Fidel Castro visiting with employees of the National Center for Scientific Investigation in Havana. Alex Castro
STRUCTURE: Cuba's capital building in Havana is shown in 2004. Michael Oswald / Wikimedia Commons
A Pope T-shirt will probably cost an arm and a leg. YouTube
Fidel Castro talks with employees of the National Center for Scientific Investigation in Havana. Ales Castro/CubaDebate
Fidel Castro laughs and jokes with workers at the National Center for Scientific Investigation in Havana. Alex Castro/CubaDebate
Bobble-heads are just one of the many pricey collectibles that will be available for sale. YouTube
The USS Bataan off the coast of Haiti, where it is deployed to render humanitarian assistance. US Navy
|
|
