Russia, Ukraine and the European Commission, after hours-long talks on Thursday, agreed in principle on a new gas deal starting after Jan 1, 2020, European Commission Vice President Maros Sefcovic told a briefing. Ukraine is a key transit route for Russian piped gas exports to Europe. The current deal between ... Read More »
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Kelly Craft made a rare compassionate public gesture toward her Iranian counterpart in the U.N. Security Council chamber on Thursday. Since Washington pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal in May 2018, tensions between the United States and Tehran have risen. But after a ... Read More »
Discovery near palace featured in Homer’s Odyssey points to town having been more significant than previously thought Two royal tombs dating back some 3,500 years and containing a hoard of revelatory ancient artefacts have been uncovered near a famed Mycenaean-era palace in southern Greece. The country’s culture ministry announced the opulent Bronze Age tombs had been ... Read More »
Prime Minister-designate, Hassan Diab, maintained that he would exert all necessary efforts in order to form a new government as soon as possible, in remarks made following his meeting with President Michel Aoun Thursday. “We hope the formation of a government that considers the concerns of the Lebanese and ... Read More »
Speaker Nabih Berri asserted on Wednesday that there is no political or regulatory cover on anyone who harms Lebanon’s unity and civil peace, calling on security forces to carry out its role and prosecute those who provoke sedition. Berri’s comments were quoted by MP Ali Bazzi during the weekly meeting ... Read More »
Trump becomes third American president to be impeached as two articles approved, mostly along party lines Just shy of the third anniversary of his presidency, Donald Trump was impeached in a mostly party-line vote in the House of Representatives on Wednesday evening. Trump became the third president to be impeached ... Read More »
China and Russia on Monday proposed the U.N. Security Council lift a ban on North Korea exporting statues, seafood and textiles, according to a draft resolution seen by Reuters, in a move Russia said is aimed at encouraging talks between Washington and Pyongyang. The draft also called for a ban ... Read More »
China has protested against Malaysia filing a submissihere with the United Nations last week seeking to establish the limits of Malaysia’s continental shelf in the northern part of the disputed South China Sea, the South China Morning Post reported on Tuesday. Under the United Nations Convention on the Law of ... Read More »
First known interstellar comet also turns out to be one of the fastest known Nasa has released never-before-seen images of 2I/Borisov, only the second known object to have visited our solar system from elsewhere. The image shows the comet in front of a distant spiral galaxy, which can be made ... Read More »
Company hails start of the ‘electric aviation age’ after 15-minute test flight in Vancouver The world’s first fully electric commercial aircraft has taken its inaugural test flight, taking off from the Canadian city of Vancouver and flying for 15 minutes. “This proves that commercial aviation in all-electric form can ... Read More »
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