Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt (AFP): Ugandan youth activist Nyombi Morris arrived in Egypt for the UN’s COP27 climate summit with high hopes of being part of the campaign for environmental justice. However, it did not take long for Egypt’s stiff security measures to shatter his dreams. According to rights groups, Egypt has stifled protest...
Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt (AFP): French President Emmanuel Macron has urged the United States, China and other wealthy non-European nations to pay their fair share to help developing countries deal with climate change. “We need the United States and China to step up” on emissions cuts and financial aid, Macron told French and African ...
Paris, France (AFP): Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has dismissed a pledge from US leader Joe Biden to “free Iran” as the country faces a new upsurge in protests seven weeks after the death of Mahsa Amini who had been arrested by the police for not fulfilling the requirements of the conservative dress code for women. Campaigning [...
Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt (AFP): Simon Stiell, the UN’s climate change executive secretary, has said he would not be a “custodian of backsliding” on the goal of slashing greenhouse emissions 45 percent by 2030 to cap global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius above late 19th-century levels. “We will be holding people to account...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh paid a visit Thursday to Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank and was escorted by 30 foreign ambassadors and consuls after the Israeli army lifted a 21-day closure of the city. “We are in Nablus, accompanied by 30 ambassadors from around the world, to stress an [&hel...
AFRIN, Syria (AA) – A 10-year-old girl is teaching her peers how to read and write, math, and Quranic recitation inside a tent-cum-classroom in northern Syria. Meryem Ahmed along with her mother had to take refuge in the Rahmet Camp in the central city of Afrin after losing her father in a 2017 attack by […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – North Korea is secretly providing Russia with artillery shells in its war against Ukraine, the White House has said. National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby said at a webinar that in September, North Korea publicly denied it intended to provide ammunition to Russia. “Our infor...
LONDON (AA) – British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has announced that he will go to Egypt to attend the 2022 UN Climate Change Conference, also known as COP 27, reversing his previous decision to skip it. “There is no long-term prosperity without action on climate change,” Sunak said in a statement posted to Twitter. “There […...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran said Wednesday it would send a delegation to Vienna in the coming days to hold talks with officials of the UN nuclear watchdog in an effort to revive the 2015 nuclear deal. The announcement was made by Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian during a joint press conference with his Syrian counterpart […]
MOSCOW (AA) – Developing ties between Moscow and Arab countries is in the interest of all sides, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said. “The world is witnessing serious political and economic change. The formation of a multipolar system of international relations is gaining momentum, which is based on the rules of equality, jus...
