Source link An industry seminar in Cairo provided an opportunity for officials to discuss progress of the El-Dabaa NPP Construction of Egypt’s first nuclear power plant is proceeding smoothly thanks to support from Russia, the head of the Egyptian Nuclear Power Plants Authority, Amjad Al-Wakeel, said at an industry seminar on Thursday. The event was […]
Source link The EU must unfreeze all €30 billion earmarked for Budapest, an adviser to Prime Minister Viktor Orban has insisted Hungary is willing to drop its opposition to the EU’s latest aid package for Ukraine only if Brussels unfreezes funding for Budapest, a chief adviser to Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said. The EU […]
Source link Suburb’s Jewish mayor Jeremy Levi said Israel’s campaign in Gaza is a battle between ‘good and evil’ The mayor of the Montreal suburb of Hampstead Jeremy Levi has said that, regardless of the number of children’s lives taken, he would continue to support Israel in its ongoing offensive in Gaza. More than 18,200 […]
Source link The launch of a special economic zone with a wide range of tax breaks and other business incentives in the Russian Arctic has helped to attract significant investment, First Deputy Minister for the Development of the Far East and the Arctic, Gadzhimagomed Guseynov, has said. According to the official, who was addressing a […]
Source link Refugee agency chief Philippe Lazzarini has accused West Jerusalem of seeking to drive Palestinians out of their homeland The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) are setting the stage for the mass expulsion of Palestinians into Egypt while creating conditions that will make it impossible for them to ever return to their destroyed homes in […]
Source link The so-called Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism threatens to cost the continent $25 billion per year, Akinwumi Adesina says An EU plan to impose a carbon tax on imports would cost Africa as much as $25 billion a year, the president of the African Development Bank, Akinwumi Adesina, has warned, adding that the continent […]
Source link The Council of Ministers has approved the move in an amendment to the constitution An amendment to Burkina Faso’s constitution granting local languages official status, while dropping French and making it a working language, was approved by the Council of Ministers on Wednesday. The minister of justice and human rights, Edasso Rodrigue Bayala, […]
Source link The upper house of the Russian parliament has set March 17, 2024 as the official date for the next presidential election. President Vladimir Putin declined to comment earlier on the possibility of running for another term, saying he would return to the topic after the parliament decides when to schedule the vote. “When […]
Source link The humanitarian situation is “worsening by the hour” as Israel escalates its offensive, according to the agency’s chief in the enclave Palestinians in Gaza have been left with virtually nowhere to go as the Israeli army continues its offensive in the enclave following the end of a truce with Hamas, a UN official […]
Source link Sheynnis Palacios, a past critic of Daniel Ortega’s government, was crowned as Miss Universe last month in El Salvador Nicaraguan police have accused the owner of the country’s Miss Universe franchise of rigging a beauty pageant to ensure that an anti-government activist wins in what authorities claim was part of a plot to […]
Source link Olaf Scholz’s government is too engrossed in domestic problems at the moment, a commissioner told reporters Faced with pressing domestic issues, the German government has been unable to take part in discussions on EU finances, the bloc’s budget commissioner, Johannes Hahn, has told journalists. Earlier this year, Berlin – along with several other […]
Source link The chief of staff at Paraguay’s Agriculture Ministry received a delegation headed by a self-proclaimed Hindu god The Paraguayan Ministry of Agriculture has sacked its chief of staff, Arnaldo Chamorro, after he signed a memorandum of understanding with the ‘United States of Kailasa,’ which is a non-existent country. Several other officials also received […]
Source link Eitan Dangot, the ex-coordinator for Palestinian territories, said authorities from the West Bank should replace Hamas It would be in Israel’s best interest if the Palestinian administration from the West Bank filled the vacuum left behind by Hamas in Gaza, if and when the Israeli military succeeds in vanquishing the militant group, a […]
Source link Islamic Jihad fighters seized servers containing details of an espionage network, the group’s envoy to Iran has claimed Islamic Jihad militants captured Israeli intelligence servers while participating in the Hamas attack on Israel last month, the group’s representative in Iran claimed on Wednesday. Nasser Abu-Sharif said the servers contained the names of many […]
Source link Completely closing the Finland-Russia land border would cost Helsinki up to $3.3 billion, according to Russian State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin. He said the Finnish authorities were “punishing” their own citizens and hindering the development of the country by “lowering the Iron Curtain in the east.” “Finnish authorities have closed all checkpoints on […]