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Finland

Sweden, Finland launch talks with Turkey over joining NATO: minister

Sweden and Finland proposed to work with Turkey on the “security guarantees” that Ankara has demanded over their plans to join NATO, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Sunday. Turkey has been supporting the [...]
Europe

Sweden’s ruling party pivots to support NATO membership

Sweden’s ruling Social Democratic Party (SAP) granted on Sunday support for the country’s North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) membership application, marking a fundamental change of the party’s position as a staunch opponent of military alignment. [...]
Israel

Israel’s supreme court green-lights controversial Jerusalem cable car plan

Israel’s Supreme Court on Sunday rejected four petitions that seek to block a controversial plan to build a cable car network to East Jerusalem’s Old City, the court said in a statement. In a unanimous [...]
Israel

Israel’s inflation rate hits 4 pct, highest in nearly 11 years

Israel’s inflation reached 4 percent in April from a year earlier, with a monthly increase of 0.8 percent, the Israeli Bureau of Statistics said Sunday. April’s rise also beat the 3.5-percent in March to hit [...]
Greece

Prevention key to reducing wildfire risk in Greece: WWF

Between 2016 and 2020, Greece allocated 83.95 percent of its total state expenditure on fighting wildfires and only 16.05 percent on preventing them, the environmental organization WWF Greece told an online press conference on Thursday. [...]

Sweden, Finland launch talks with Turkey over joining NATO: minister

Finland

May 16, 2022 0

Sweden and Finland proposed to work with Turkey on the “security guarantees” that Ankara has demanded over their plans to join NATO, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Sunday. Turkey has been supporting the [...]

Israel to turn southernmost desert region into agro-research center: ministry

Israel

May 16, 2022 0

Israel plans to invest some 50 million U.S. dollars to build the Red Sea city of Eilat and its vicinity in the Negev Desert into an aquaculture and desert farming R&D center. The plan aims [...]

Egypt has no wheat crisis, interest rate hike likely: PM

Egypt

May 16, 2022 0

Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly said on Sunday that Egypt will not have a crisis in wheat supplies despite the repercussions of the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine, two main wheat exporters to Egypt. [...]

Jordanian miner signs 1.5-bln-USD deals to boost phosphate export to India

North Africa and Mediterranean

May 16, 2022 0

The Jordan Phosphate Mines Company (JPMC) has signed 1.5 billion U.S. dollars deals with several Indian companies to increase the exports of phosphate and fertilizers. Under the deals, the Jordanian miner would provide Indian Farmers [...]

UN warns of worsening drought in Horn of Africa in four decades

World

May 16, 2022 0

The United Nations top relief official has warned of the worsening drought in the Horn of Africa region which has already affected more than 18 million people across Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya. Martin Griffiths, under-secretary-general [...]

Africa’s COVID-19 cases pass 11.55 mln: Africa CDC

Covid

May 16, 2022 0

The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Africa reached 11,555,033 as of Sunday evening, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said. The specialized healthcare agency of the African Union (AU) said [...]

Israel

Israel announces 176-mln-USD plan to promote space tech

May 16, 2022 0

Israel on Sunday announced a 600-million-shekel (about 176 million U.S dollars) plan to promote the country’s space tech industry and R&D. The strategic five-year plan aims to strengthen and develop the civilian space industry as [...]

World

At least 11 killed in bus crash in northern Peru

May 16, 2022 0

At least 11 people died and another 34 were injured in a bus accident near the Peruvian province of Sihuas in the Ancash region, local authorities said Sunday. The National Emergency Operations Center of Peru [...]

Covid

New Zealand reports 7,061 new community cases of COVID-19

May 16, 2022 0

New Zealand recorded five more deaths and 7,061 new community cases of COVID-19, slightly higher than last week with the rolling average up more than 200 from a week ago, the ministry of health said [...]

World

UN chief appalled by racist shooting in Buffalo, New York

May 16, 2022 0

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was appalled by Saturday’s killing of 10 people in a vile act of racist violent extremism in Buffalo, New York, his deputy spokesman said Sunday. Guterres extended his deepest condolences to [...]

World

Ireland’s April inflation hits 22-yr high at 7-pct

May 15, 2022 0

The average prices of goods and services in Ireland, as measured by consumer price index (CPI), were 7 percent higher in April when compared with a year ago, said the country’s Central Statistics Office (CSO) [...]

World

62 salmonella infections linked to Ferrero factory in Arlon, investigation confirms

May 15, 2022 0

An investigation has concluded that 62 people came down with salmonella after consuming Kinder chocolate products made at a Ferrero factory in Arlon, Belgium, back in April, the Federal Agency for the Safety of the [...]

Sweden’s ruling party pivots to support NATO membership

Europe

May 16, 2022 0

Sweden’s ruling Social Democratic Party (SAP) granted on Sunday support for the country’s North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) membership application, marking a fundamental change of the party’s position as a staunch opponent of military alignment. [...]

Grain import prices surge to 11-year high in Germany: Destatis

Deutsch

May 15, 2022 0

Germany paid more than half as much for imported grain in March than a year ago as prices saw their sharpest rise since May 2011, according to fresh statistics from the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) [...]

Energy

Climate ministers meet in Copenhagen to accelerate compliance with COP26 targets

May 15, 2022 0

Representatives of nearly 50 countries along with 20-odd climate ministers met in Denmark’s capital on May 12 and 13 “to revisit their 2022 climate targets and ensure compliance with the Paris Agreement,” a press release [...]