No oil and gas majors aligned with climate targets: report
An A grade would be potentially aligned with the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement to limit temperature rise to...Geostrategy Climate Change
EU members to discuss Bosnia entry into Union
Brussels, Belgium - A group of EU countries including Germany on Tuesday pushed for a green light to start membership negotiations...Geostrategy
Syrian refugees in Turkey: Political tool in crisis times
With the lira's value tumbles to historic lows and annual inflation runs at nearly 70 percent, the refugee question regularly...Political parties in Turkey spar over sending 3.7 million Syrian refugees back to their war-torn homeland while the refugees have no appetite to return
Majority of the Syrian refugees have settled in Turkish society since 2012, and only 1 percent live in the shelter camps built for those who escaped civil war
Uneasy NATO wait ahead for Finland and Sweden
Once a country has decided to apply for NATO membership, the 30 members of the alliance must agree unanimously to...Boris Johnson Wednesday signed a Political Declaration of Solidarity, including military means with Finland and Sweden
NATO's 30 member states would ratify the decision of granting membership to Finland and Sweden for the Western military alliance
Oman-India Joint Commission to discuss Free Trade Agreement with GCC
A meeting of the Oman-India Joint Business Council, under the umbrella of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and...A meeting of the Oman-India Joint Business Council, under the umbrella of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry and the Oman Chamber will be held Friday
At this meeting, ministers from both sides will interact with the business communities, the Indian Ministry of Commerce and Industry said
Spain, Morocco agree to reopen enclave land borders
The move helps draw a line under a major diplomatic standoff on the back of coronavirus restrictions that together closed...The borders closed last year when Spain allowed the leader of a Western Saharan independence movement to be treated in a Spanish hospital
Around 10,000 migrants crossed the Moroccan border into Ceuta as border forces looked the other way, in an apparent punitive gesture by Rabat
Russia slaps sanctions on Western energy firms
The sanctions include a ban on transactions and the entry into Russian ports of vessels linked to the affected companies.The sanctions target 31 companies, most belonging to the Gazprom Germania group of subsidiaries of Gazprom
The sanctions also affect Poland's EuRoPol GAZ SA, the owner of the Polish part of the Yamal-Europe gas pipeline
Iran arrests two Europeans for ‘destabilizing society’
Iran's intelligence ministry announced Wednesday that two Europeans had been arrested on accusations of seeking to "destabilize the country", without...The two detainees had attempted to get close to the teachers' union, the ministry said
Earlier this month, Human Rights Watch called for the release of almost 40 teachers arrested in events surrounding nationwide demonstrations on May 1
Veteran Al Jazeera journalist killed ‘in cold blood’ during Israel raid
Abu Aqleh, a Palestinian Christian, was a prominent figure in the channel's Arabic news service. While the Qatar-based channel said...An AFP photographer at the scene reported that Israeli forces were firing in the area and then saw Abu Aqleh's body lying on the ground.
Al Jazeera called on the international community to hold the Israeli forces accountable for their "intentional targeting and killing" of the journalist.
Despite public anger, Lebanon vote set to entrench status quo
Lebanon's elections Sunday won't yield a seismic shift despite widespread discontent with a graft-tainted political class blamed for a painful...The small country's political system has long distributed power among its religious communities, entrenching a ruling elite that has treated politics as a family business
By convention, the Lebanese president is a Maronite Christian, the prime minister a Sunni Muslim, and the speaker of parliament a Shiite
Jordan king to meet Biden in Washington on Friday
The meeting will cover the strategic partnership between Jordan and the United States as well as the latest regional and...The meeting will cover the strategic partnership between Jordan and the United States as well as the latest regional and international developments
The White House meeting is slated to follow a number of meetings with senior administration officials and Congress leadership
Clean sources transformed UAE energy sector in a decade: ENEC chief
The UAE has proactively invested in proven clean energy and within a decade, solar and peaceful nuclear energy have delivered...Barakah Nuclear Plant is now generating 2.8 Gigawatts of electricity, making it the largest source of clean electricity in the country.
With all four reactors online, nuclear energy will meet 25 percent of the UAE’s electricity demand.
