Damage to environment could wipe £368bn a year from growth by 2050 and UK will be hard hit, WWF warns Loss of nature will wipe £368bn a year off global economic growth by 2050 and the UK will be the third-worst hit, with a £16bn annual loss, according to ...
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Breaking with Washington: Arabs and Muslims must take a stand for Palestine
A negotiated solution to the ‘Palestinian-Israeli conflict’, at least the way envisaged by successive US administrations, has failed. Now, Palestinians and their allies would have to explore a whole new path of liberation that does not go through Washington. It is easy to place all the blame on the current ...
Read More »Solar Orbiter: Nasa and ESA launch probe to give unprecedented view of Sun
A new spacecraft that will give us an unprecedented view of the Sun has blasted off into space. Europe and Nasa’s Solar Orbiter was rocketed up to begin its journey to our star on Sunday night, with the aim of getting pictures of the kind never seen before. “We’re on ...
Read More »Lebanon’s financial crisis leaves its envied media industry in freefall
Agenda-setting newspapers and TV stations facing scramble to survive amid state dysfunction For nearly 80 years since its postwar independence, Lebanon has been a haven for regional media, giving a platform to journalism and entertainment that few other countries in the Middle East would dare to match. Its newspapers ...
Read More »Number of chinstrap penguins in Antarctica has fallen sharply: scientists
The number of chinstrap penguins in some colonies in Western Antarctica has fallen by as much as 77% since they were last surveyed in the 1970s, say scientists studying the impact of climate change on the remote region. The chinstrap penguin, named after the narrow black band under its head, ...
Read More »Russian companies to invest in Iraq’s energy industry, says official
Russian oil companies are seeking to invest in the Iraqi gas sector, the First Deputy Chairman of the Economic Policy Committee at the Russian Federation Council announced yesterday. “Today, our leading oil and gas companies such as Lukoil, Bashneft, Gazprom Neft are actively working in Iraq,” Yury Fedorov said during ...
Read More »More than 100 US troops suffered traumatic brain injury in Iran strike, military says
The number of US service members diagnosed with traumatic brain injury (TBI) stemming from Iran’s missile attack on a base in Iraq last month has shot up to more than 100, the Pentagon said Monday. The department said 109 military members had been treated for mild TBI, a significant increase ...
Read More »Speaker of Kuwaiti Parliament throws ‘Deal of the Century’ in the bin
Kuwaiti Parliament Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanim threw, on Saturday, a copy of the US’ so-called “deal of the century” in the bin, stressing that it “was born dead” and “should be thrown in the dustbin of history”. This came during Al-Ghanim’s speech before the emergency conference of the Arab Parliamentary Union, ...
Read More »Coronavirus death toll surges as fears grow for Chinese economy
The death toll from the coronavirus epidemic in mainland China soared past 1,000 on Tuesday with a record daily rise in fatalities, while the prolonged disruption to factories and businesses played havoc with the world’s second-largest economy. Hundreds of Chinese firms say they will need billions of dollars in loans ...
Read More »Plane skids off runway in Istanbul, killing three and injuring 179
– A Pegasus Airlines plane flying into Istanbul’s Sabiha Gokcen airport skidded off the end of a wet runway and broke into three pieces after landing on Wednesday, killing three people and injuring 179, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said. The three had died in hospital, with 179 of the 183 ...
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