Gaza ‘genocide’ exposes Europe’s failure to act: top EU official
"The genocide in Gaza exposes Europe's failure to act and speak with one voice," European Commission vice president Teresa Ribera...
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Lost for 50 years, Nobel patents found in Swedish summer home
Stockholm, Sweden -- A dozen patents belonging to Swedish inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel and lost for almost 50 years...
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Quality finance crucial to deal with climate change
"We cannot neglect any element of the climate crisis, including its clear implications for international peace and security,” he adds....
- Majid Al Suwaidi, Director-General and Special Representative of COP28, calls for catalyzing greater and higher quality climate finance for fragile and vulnerable communities
- The UAE will host COP28 in Dubai from 30th November to December 12, which will include the first Global Stocktake to assess progress toward implementation of the Paris Agreement
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White House says ‘deeply dismayed’ by Israeli settlements plans
The White House said Thursday it is "deeply dismayed" by Israeli plans for a major expansion of settlements in occupied...
- The UN Security Council is considering a draft resolution that would demand Israel immediately cease all settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territory
- The 15-member council is likely to vote on Monday on the text, drafted by the United Arab Emirates in coordination with the Palestinians, diplomats told Reuters
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UN appeals for $1 billion in aid for Turkey quake victims
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a statement that the funds would provide humanitarian relief for three months to 5.2...
- Turkey's people have experienced "unspeakable heartache," the UN's Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths said in a separate statement announcing the flash appeal.
- Some 47,000 buildings have been destroyed or damaged across Turkey, with thousands of people having sought refuge in temporary shelters.
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Iraq marshlands campaigner freed from kidnappers
Baghdad, Iraq---A leading campaigner for the preservation of Iraq's famed southern marshlands has been freed, two weeks after he was kidnapped...
- Jassim al-Assadi, 65, head of environmentalist group Nature Iraq, was seized on February 1 as he drove to the capital Baghdad on the main motorway from the south.
- A hydraulic engineer by profession, Assadi has been involved in numerous initiatives since 2006 to restore the marshlands where he was born.
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Repsol’s profit up on high oil prices
The oil firm posted a net profit of $4.55 billion in 2022.
- Repsol said gas and oil prices "rose sharply during the first half of 2022" due to sanctions imposed against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine
- It said the higher earnings had allowed it to boost investments in 2022 by 40 percent over the previous year to 4.18 billion euros,
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Blinken to pledge quake support on first Turkey visit
Blinken will visit Incirlik air base, through which the United States has shipped aid, and then hold talks in the...
- US has flown in some 200 rescuers and contributed an initial $85 million in relief for Turkey, deploying Black Hawk and Chinook helicopters to bring supplies to worst-hi
- The visit, which was being planned before the February 6 earthquake that has killed nearly 40,000 people in the country and Syria, will be the first by Blinken to Turkey
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UN likely to vote Monday on call for Israel to stop settlements
The 15-member council is likely to vote on Monday on the text, drafted by the United Arab Emirates in coordination...
- The 15-member council is likely to vote on Monday on the text, drafted by the United Arab Emirates in coordination with the Palestinians
- US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has already expressed deep concern over Israel’s decision to authorize nine Jewish settler outposts in West Bank
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US condemns Tunisia arrests of president’s critics
Washington, United States--The United States on Wednesday denounced Tunisia's arrest of critics of President Kais Saied and called for transparent legal...
- Police have arrested 10 public figures since Saturday, including the director of a popular radio station and a prominent businessman.
- The opposition National Salvation Front said that the arrests were an act of vengeance without legal basis
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US-GCC Working Group on Iran holds 3rd meeting in Riyadh
The meeting was co-chaired by Sheikh Ahmed bin Hashel Al-Maskari, Head of the Omani Foreign Ministry's GCC Department.
- The meeting was co-chaired by Sheikh Ahmed bin Hashel Al-Maskari, Head of the Omani Foreign Ministry's GCC Department
- The meeting comes within the framework of the strategic partnership between the GCC and the USA
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New mechanisms to boost international cooperation in a multipower world, says WEF President Klaus Schwab
Regarding structural transformations to be witnessed in various vital economic sectors, Schwab says there will be about 10 billion people...
- There is an urgency to develop new mechanisms that strengthen international cooperation in today’s multipower world, says WEF chief Klaus Schwab
- Technological transformation and the Fourth Industrial Revolution will impact the world for years to come, adds Schwab while speaking at WGS 23
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Israel PM says ‘intense’ phase of Gaza war winding down
Netanyahu said Israel would be able to "redeploy some forces to the north" on the border with Lebanon, where exchanges...
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Lebanon Transport minister denies Hezbollah weapons at Beirut Airport
Lebanon's transport minister denied on Sunday that Hezbollah was storing weapons at Beirut airport, as fears grow of all-out war...
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Gaza health officials say 24 killed in Israeli strikes
Gaza civil defence agency spokesman Mahmud Basal told AFP that at least 20 were killed in a strike on a...
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Hizbollah threatens Israel after military says Lebanon offensive ready
Hassan Nasrallah - whose powerful Iran-backed group has exchanged near-daily fire with Israel since its ally Hamas's October 7 attack...
- Hizbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah said "no place" in Israel would "be spared our rockets", in a televised address broadcast amid spiraling tensions across the Israel-Lebanon border
- Meanwhile, the war between Israel and Hamas raged in Gaza, with Israeli air strikes and clashes between troops and Palestinian fighters
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Israel says Lebanon offensive plan ‘approved’ as tensions surge
Palestinian Territories - The Israeli army on Tuesday said plans for an offensive in Lebanon were "approved and validated" amid...
- The war in Gaza has heightened tensions across the region, with Israeli forces and Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah, a Hamas ally, exchanging fire on a near-daily basis
- Al-Awda hospital said it received the bodies of "six martyrs and 15 wounded as a result of Israeli air strikes on various areas in the central and southern Gaza Strip."
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Huthi missile attack severely injures sailor on cargo ship: US military
Two cruise missiles launched by Yemen's Huthi rebels struck a bulk cargo carrier in the Gulf of Aden on Thursday,...
- The M/V Verbena -- a Palauan-flagged, Ukrainian-owned, Polish-operated ship -- "reported damage and fires on board
- The Huthis on Thursday said they had carried out attacks on three ships within the past 24 hours