COVID-19 lockdowns brought rapid and "unprecedented" improvements in air quality in some parts of the world — but not enough to halt climate change caused by global warming, UN weather experts said on Friday.
According to the World Meteorological (...)
The prospect of European travel for Americans has begun to diminish once more as countries adopt new measures in response to a recent surge in US COVID-19 cases.
Earlier this week, the European Union announced it was dropping the United States from (...)
Nuclear reactors generated a total 2553 TWh of electricity in 2020, down from 2657 TWh in 2019, according to the latest World Nuclear Performance Report released by the World Nuclear Association (WNA).
Despite the small decline, the Association's (...)
The Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi (DCT- Abu Dhabi) has issued the updated 'Green List' for travel to Abu Dhabi.
Below is the full list of 'green' countries, regions and territories that you can travel from if planning a trip to Abu (...)
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has extended its green list of countries and destinations from which travelers can enter the emirate without needing to quarantine on arrival. The latest update adds three countries to the list of approved places from (...)
The European Union Thursday announced that France has mobilized two Canadair-type firefighting planes to help Algeria fight forest fires in the north and northeast of the country, following a request for assistance submitted to the EU civil (...)
The urgent need to reduce emissions and slow global heating, should involve the roll-out of more nuclear power stations, regional UN energy experts argued in a new briefing on Wednesday.
Only weeks before world leaders gather in Glasgow to hammer (...)
At least six EU countries insist that the forced deportation of migrants back to Afghanistan continues despite the Taliban's alarming gains in recent weeks.
Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, and the Netherlands wrote to the European (...)
Criticism against the Greek government is growing as the country continues to battle raging wildfires that have forced thousands to flee.
Authorities on Evia, Greece's second-largest island, have in recent days denounced "insufficient" means to (...)
Fires of "biblical catastrophe" continue to burn through Greek forests, forcing the evacuations of thousands of people as a political storm brews in Turkey over the worst wildfires in recent history.
Three large wildfires churned across Greece on (...)
RIYADH — Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan welcomed on Saturday the appointment of the Swedish diplomat Hans Grundberg as the new UN special envoy for Yemen to succeed Martin Griffiths.
The Saudi minister wished him through (...)
Thousands of people have fled wildfires that continue to spread in Greece and Turkey.
They escaped a blaze north of the Greek capital Athens early on Friday as firefighters waged an overnight battle to stop the flames from reaching populated areas, (...)
NEW YORK — US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Friday that there is unprecedented international and regional consensus on the need to end the Houthi offensive on Marib and other fightings, and on placing renewed emphasis on political talks (...)
Heads of Mission and representatives from Belgium, Denmark, EU, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom visited Beita, a village near Nablus in the West Bank, the UK (...)
Ecuador has revoked the citizenship of Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks who is currently in a British prison.
Ecuador's justice system formally notified the Australian of the nullity of his naturalization in a letter that came in response to (...)
European stocks rebounded on Tuesday, due largely to bargain hunting after sharp falls in the
previous session on mounting worries about the spread of the Delta variant of the coronavirus in several countries, dpa reported.
The pan-European Stoxx (...)
RIYADH — Expatriates will not be allowed to enter the Kingdom from nine countries facing a travel ban unless they spend two weeks in a third country after their departure from these countries, the General Directorate of Passports (Jawazat) has (...)
The European Union has announced that the transport sector must cut greenhouse gases by 90 percent by 2050 in order to meet the goals of the European Green Deal.
As part of a raft of new legislation, announced on Wednesday, passenger cars - which (...)
A small plane carrying skydivers crashed outside the Swedish town of Orebro on Thursday night, killing nine people including the pilot.
The small aircraft, a DHC-2 Turbo Beaver, crashed and killed eight skydivers and one pilot. It crashed near the (...)
Sweden's parliament has voted to re-appoint caretaker Prime Minister Stefan Lofven to lead a new government.
The leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party was backed by the Green Party to give Lofven the exact number needed to secure a (...)
A Dutch crime reporter who had been the target of death threats was shot and badly injured in Amsterdam on Tuesday evening.
Peter R de Vries, widely-known and praised for his investigative work on the Dutch criminal underworld, was shot in the (...)
Sweden's parliament will vote on Wednesday to decide if the caretaker prime minister Stefan Löfven can lead a new government.
Löfven moved a step closer to forming a coalition after the country's parliamentary speaker said the former PM had enough (...)
Yemeni Minister of Information, Culture and Tourism Muammar Al-Eryani has said that foiling Houthi militia's terrorist attack with two explosives-laden boats reconfirms the serious danger posed by the militia's control of coasts of Hodeidah to the (...)
Yemeni Minister of Information, Culture and Tourism Muammar Al-Eryani has said that foiling Houthi militia's terrorist attack with two explosives-laden boats reconfirms the serious danger posed by the militia's control of coasts of Hodeida to the (...)
England gave Germany a lesson in ruthless finishing, converting its only two real chances of this Euro 2020 last-16 match to finally end its decades-long inferiority complex against its old, historic rival.
Germany hadn't lost a knockout match to (...)
