Lebanese Energy Minister, Nada Boustani promised on Tuesday that the oil and gas sector will develop and operate with total transparency. During the opening of a workshop with international petroleum countries, the minister said “the government and the Energy and Water Ministry is committed to following up on the development ...

British Foreign Office minister Sir Alan Duncan has announced his resignation, being the first minister to walk out of government because they are unwilling to serve under Boris Johnson. Many other resignations are still expected. The pro EU minister said in his resignation letter to Theresa May that “the dark cloud of Brexit” was getting in ...

Japan is considering taking a dispute with South Korea over its compensation for wartime forced laborers to the International Court of Justice as the deadline for seeking third-country arbitration passes on Thursday, public broadcaster NHK reported. The question of compensation for South Koreans for labor during Japan’s 1910-45 occupation of ...

The United States said on Wednesday that it was removing Turkey from the F-35 fighter jet program, a move long threatened and expected after Ankara began accepting delivery of an advanced Russian missile defense system last week. The first parts of the S-400 air defense system were flown to the ...

Seawater could be turned to ice and pumped on glacier generating trillions of tonnes of snowfall   Vast snow cannons could be used to repair the West Antarctic ice sheet and prevent catastrophic sea level rise, leading climate scientists have suggested. Seawater could be turned into ice and then pumped onto the glacier, generating ...

Protein tau may spread more rapidly in female brains than males’, adding to range of factors   The reason women appear to be at greater risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease than men might be due to a number of genetic, anatomical and even social influences, researchers have suggested. Recent figures ...

Organisation calls for more funds as 2,512 cases are confirmed in the region   The Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is a public health emergency of international concern, the World Health Organization has declared, calling for more funds and support to close it down. The second ...

Representatives from the United States and Russia are set to meet in Geneva on Wednesday to explore the concept of a new accord limiting nuclear arms that could eventually include China, senior U.S. officials said on Monday. U.S. President Donald Trump has said that he would like to see a ...

Wiping out animals could mean 7 per cent more carbon released but conserving them would be worth £34bn in CO2 storage, study finds   Wiping out all of Africa’s elephants could accelerate Earth’s climate crisis by allowing 7 per cent more damaging greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, scientists say. But ...

Growth falls to 6.2 per cent in second quarter – the lowest on record – hit by sharp rise in US tariffs on Chinese goods in May   China’s economy has slowed to its lowest growth rate in almost three decades, suggesting the trade war with Donald Trump is taking its toll. ...