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The Tata Steel plant in Port Talbot, south Wales. File | Photo Credit: Reuters The UK on September 14 announced that it had agreed a joint investment package with Tata Steel for the country’s largest steelworks in Wales, including a grant worth up to GBP 500 million – dubbed one of the largest British government…
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The E. Barrett Prettyman Courthouse on September 07, 2023 in Washington, DC. | Photo Credit: Getty Images via AFP The Justice Department is challenging efforts by former President Donald Trump to disqualify the Washington judge presiding over the case charging him with plotting to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Prosecutors with special counsel…
A view of Susah, Libya, in the aftermath of the floods on September 15, 2023. | Photo Credit: Reuters Libyan authorities sealed off an inundated city on Friday to allow search teams to dig through the mud and hollowed-out buildings for 10,000 people missing and feared dead after the official toll from flooding soared past 11,000….
Chinese Vice-President Han Zheng. File | Photo Credit: AP China is sending Vice-President Han Zheng to the U.N. General Assembly’s annual high-level debate, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on September 15, suggesting that the country’s most senior diplomat Wang Yi will not attend. This year’s gathering of world leaders at United Nations headquarters in…
Britain said the new electric furnaces would cut the country’s entire emissions by around 1.5%. London: Britain is to pump 500 million pounds ($621 million) into Tata Steel to decarbonise its Welsh site, in a deal aimed at securing the future of the country’s steel industry but which puts as many as 3,000 jobs at…
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From left, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (Japan), Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni (Italy), President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud, Prime Minister Narendra Modi (India), President Joe Biden (U.S), President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan (UAE) and President Emmanuel Macron (France) attend Partnership for…
Chinese Defence Minister Li Shangfu. File | Photo Credit: AP The U.S. government believes China’s Defence Minister Li Shangfu is the subject of an investigation by Beijing and has been relieved of his duties, the Financial Times reported late Thursday citing American officials. The report came shortly before high-ranking diplomat Rahm Emanuel, the U.S. ambassador…
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Flash flooding in east Libya caused by Storm Daniel tore through the coastal city of Derna, leaving nearly 4,000 people dead, 10,000 missing and entire neighbourhoods in ruins. This is what we know so far about the extreme weather event that hit war-torn Libya. Dams burst On Sunday afternoon, Storm Daniel made landfall on Libya’s…
Thunberg is one of the most popular young climate activists worldwide. (File) Stockholm: Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg was charged with disobeying a police order on Friday, less than two months after she was convicted and fined for the same offence. Thunberg, 20, was fined 1,500 Swedish crowns ($134) by a Swedish court on July…
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Representative Photo American space agency NASA gave a platform to an independent committee looking into the reported sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs), in which the researchers said that they did not find any proof that aliens were responsible for the phenomenon. However, the agency also said that it cannot rule out that possibility. The…
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