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  • EU Welcomes IMO shipping emissions deal

    Date: 2025-04-11 18:36:13 GMT - Belgium - World - SN:41 - ID:11134792

    BRUSSELS, April 11 (MENA) - The European Commission on Friday hailed a newly reached agreement within the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in the global shipping sector by 2050, calling it a ....

  • Lavrov to hold talks with his Turkish counterpart on sidelines of Antalya forum

    Date: 2025-04-11 16:14:08 GMT - Russia - World - SN:30 - ID:11134694

    MOSCOW, April 11 (MENA) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will meet with his Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan on the sidelines of the 4th Antalya Diplomacy Forum on April 12, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement. "On April 12, top ....

  • 6 killed in deadly Hudson helicopter crash

    Date: 2025-04-11 08:08:05 GMT - USA - World - SN:10 - ID:11133962

    WASHINGTON, April 11 (MENA) – An executive of Siemens, a European technology company, his wife and young children were aboard the tourist helicopter that plunged into New York City's Hudson River, leaving no survivors. Agustin Escobar, his wife, ....

  • Chinese President to visit Vietnam, Malaysia, Cambodia next week

    Date: 2025-04-11 07:58:20 GMT - China - World - SN:8 - ID:11134018

    BEIJING, April 11 (MENA) - General Secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and Chinese President Xi Jinping will pay a state visit to Vietnam from April 14 to 15, at the invitation of General Secretary of the Communist Party of ....

  • China pledges US$137 million for Myanmar earthquake relief

    Date: 2025-04-11 07:55:46 GMT - Myanmar (Burma) - World - SN:5 - ID:11133952

    NAY PYI TAW, April 11 (MENA) – China has pledged emergency humanitarian assistance of 1 billion yuan (dlrs 137 million) to earthquake-stricken Myanmar, its embassy in the southeast Asian nation said, according to CNA. The March quake of magnitude ....

  • OPEN// Bulgarian energy minister: Maximizing regional gas infrastructure capacity to boost energy security

    Date: 2025-04-10 20:12:25 GMT - Bulgaria - World - SN:77 - ID:11133764

    SOFIA, April 10 (MENA) - It is important for countries in the region to use the existing gas infrastructure to its full capacity in order to enhance the security of energy supply, Bulgarian Energy Minister Zhecho Stankov said Thursday during the ....

  • Trump tariffs on China now total 145%, White House clarifies

    Date: 2025-04-10 16:13:57 GMT - USA - World - SN:56 - ID:11133504

    WASHINGTON, April 10 (MENA) - The White House has clarified that US President Donald Trump's tariffs on China are actually 145 percent, not the 125 percent previously thought. Trump had whacked a series of escalating tariffs onto China to the ....

  • EU suspends retaliatory 25% tariffs on US goods after Trump U-turn

    Date: 2025-04-10 15:36:42 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:51 - ID:11133429

    BRUSSELS, April 10 (MENA) - The EU has suspended its retaliatory 25% tariffs on US goods for 90 days after US President Donald Trump’s dramatic climbdown in his trade war. The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said the ....

  • US imposes sanctions on 6 enablers of Iran's nuclear programs

    Date: 2025-04-09 20:49:11 GMT - USA - World - SN:70 - ID:11132362

    WASHINGTON, April 9 (MENA) – The United States imposed new sanctions on Iran on Wednesday, just few days before the Tehran’s scheduled talks with Washington this weekend in Oman. "Today, the United States is sanctioning five entities and one ....

  • OPEN// Bulgarian gov’t tightens rules for drone use, offers mechanisms to counter offenders

    Date: 2025-04-09 20:44:31 GMT - Bulgaria - World - SN:69 - ID:11132412

    SOFIA, April 9 (MENA) - The Bulgarian government has approved amendments to the Civil Aviation Act, which strengthen controls over the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (drones). The amendments legally prohibit drone flights without permission in ....

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