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File photo of Prince Charles.
Prince Charles' ex-aide quits charity role amid honor claims
LONDON — A former close aide to Prince Charles stepped down temporarily from his role as chief executive of a royal charity amid reports that he helped secure an honor for a Saudi donor.The Sunday Times and Mail on Sunday newspapers reported that Michael Fawcett coordinated support for an honor for Saudi businessman Mahfouz Marei Mubarak Bin Mahfouz.The Times said the businessman donated sums of more than 1.5 million pounds (€1.75 million) to The Prince’s Foundation to fund heritage restoration projects of interest to Charles, including residences Charles used.The report said Charles gave Mahfouz an honorary CBE, or Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, at a private ceremony in 2016. The Saudi denies wrongdoing.The Prince’s Foundation said in a statement that...
September 05, 2021

Prince Charles' ex-aide quits charity role amid honor claims

20 people were injured Sunday in Montenegro during clashes between police and demonstrators trying to prevent the inauguration of the new head of the Serbian Orthodox Church.
20 injured in Serbian church protest in Montenegro
PODGORICA — At least 20 people were injured Sunday in Montenegro during clashes between police and demonstrators trying to prevent the inauguration of the new head of the Serbian Orthodox Church.Police also announced eight arrests following the violence that marred the brief enthronement ceremony in Cetinje, the former royal city in the south of the country.Bishop Joanikije had to be flown by helicopter from the capital Podgorica to the city's monastery to get around the barricades that had been blocking access roads to Cetinje since the previous day.Riot police used tear gas on protesters who fired gunshots in the air and hurled bottles and stones early Sunday in Montenegro before a planned inauguration of the new head of the Serbian Orthodox Church in the country.The ceremony...
September 05, 2021

20 injured in Serbian church protest in Montenegro

The UN humanitarian chief, Martin Griffiths, visits the Transhipment Hub near the Bab al-Hawa crossing on the Syria-Turkey border. — courtesy OCHA
Prevent ‘entire generation from being lost’ in Syria, urges Griffiths
GENEVA — Some 13.4 million Syrians throughout the beleaguered country are in need of assistance, the UN humanitarian office said on Saturday, calling for “greater access and expanded funding”, to better help them.Concluding a seven-day visit to Syria, Lebanon and Turkey — his first official mission in the region since assuming the function of UN Emergency Relief Coordinator — Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Martin Griffiths stressed that “the UN needs to be able to reach people who depend on its aid both from Turkey and from within Syria”.“Humanitarians and donors must keep Syria high on our collective agenda to prevent an entire generation being lost,” he underscored.Expand humanitarian accessDuring meetings with the Syrian Foreign Minister and his...
September 05, 2021

Prevent ‘entire generation from being lost’ in Syria, urges Griffiths

Russian President Vladimir Putin renewed his criticism of the West, but said Friday, he hopes the Taliban will behave in a “civilized” manner in Afghanistan so the global community can maintain diplomatic ties with Kabul.
Putin renews criticism of West; hopes Taliban will show ‘civilized behavior’
MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin renewed his criticism of the West, but said Friday, he hopes the Taliban will behave in a “civilized” manner in Afghanistan so the global community can maintain diplomatic ties with Kabul.“Russia is not interested in the disintegration of Afghanistan. If this happens, then there will be no one to talks to,” Putin said. He was speaking at the plenary session of the European Economic Forum in Russia’s eastern city of Vladivostok.“The sooner the Taliban will enter the family of civilized people, so to speak, the easier it will be to contact, communicate and somehow influence and ask questions,” he added.The longtime Russian leader said the withdrawal of the US-led forces from Afghanistan that was completed last month has ended in a...
September 03, 2021

Putin renews criticism of West; hopes Taliban will show ‘civilized behavior’

A group photo of the EU foreign ministers at the end of the 2-day informal ministerial meeting held in Slovenia, which holds the current EU Presidency.
EU will talk to the Taliban but will not recognize government: Borrell
BRUSSELS — European Union foreign ministers have agreed on the need to engage with the Taliban but stopped short of formally recognizing the new government.At a meeting in Slovenia, EU foreign policy chief Joseph Borrell said that at this moment it is necessary and that a presence on the ground in Afghanistan should be re-established."In order to support the Afghan population, we will have to engage with the new government in Afghanistan, which does not mean recognition, it is an operational engagement," Borrell told reporters on Friday.According to the EU, cooperation is dependent on the Taliban meeting five conditions, including preventing the export of terrorism, respecting human rights, creating an inclusive government, allowing access to humanitarian aid, and allowing the...
September 03, 2021

EU will talk to the Taliban but will not recognize government: Borrell

World Nuclear Association's Director General Sama Bilbao y León.
2020 highlighted nuclear's resilience under COVID-19 pandemic: WNA
LONDON — 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 Director General Sama Bilbao y León said, "The resilience and flexibility shown by the global nuclear fleet tell a very positive story."The decrease in nuclear output was strongly influenced by the overall fall of around 1 percent in global electricity demand in 2020 caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the report said.In addition, nuclear reactors were increasingly being called upon to provide load-following support to the growing share of variable renewable generation."In any other year an almost 4 percent decline in...
September 03, 2021

2020 highlighted nuclear's resilience under COVID-19 pandemic: WNA

The European Union and AstraZeneca reached an agreement Friday, which will secure the delivery of the remaining 200 million COVID-19 vaccine doses to the EU.
EU, AstraZeneca reach vaccine deal
BRUSSELS — The European Union and AstraZeneca reached an agreement Friday, which will secure the delivery of the remaining 200 million COVID-19 vaccine doses to the EU.The agreement will also end the pending litigation before the Brussels Court, said the European Commission in a press release Friday.EU Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Stella Kyriakides said: “Today’s settlement agreement guarantees the delivery of the remaining 200 million COVID-19 vaccine doses by AstraZeneca to the EU.“We will continue helping the rest of the world, Our aim is to share at least 200 million doses of vaccines through COVAX with low and middle-income countries until the end of this year,” she said.“While this week we reached the important milestone of 70% full vaccination of the EU's...
September 03, 2021

EU, AstraZeneca reach vaccine deal

Europe was unprepared and uncoordinated during the recent crisis in Afghanistan and had to rely on the US to help airlift citizens out of the country as the Taliban seized Kabul, a senior EU official said on Wednesday.
Afghanistan crisis sparks debate over EU's military capabilities
BRUSSELS — Europe was unprepared and uncoordinated during the recent crisis in Afghanistan and had to rely on the US to help airlift citizens out of the country as the Taliban seized Kabul, a senior EU official said on Wednesday.European Council President Charles Michel said that the bloc needed to "strive for greater decision-making autonomy and greater capacity for action in the world".Speaking at the Bled Strategic Forum in Slovenia, Michel said: “As a global economic and democratic power, can Europe be content with a situation where we are unable to ensure, unassisted, the evacuation of our citizens and those under threat because they have helped us?"Amid calls for “European strategic autonomy” from a non-member like the United States, EU foreign affairs chief...
September 02, 2021

Afghanistan crisis sparks debate over EU's military capabilities

Danish Minister for Immigration Inger Stojberg seen in this file photo
Rare impeachment trial in Denmark as ex-minister Stojberg accused of splitting migrants
COPENHAGEN — A former Danish immigration minister goes on trial on Thursday over a 2016 order aimed at separating asylum-seeking couples where one partner is under 18.A rarely used impeachment court will determine whether Inger Stojberg violated the European Convention on Human Rights. The court, which only tries former or current members of government, is convening for the first time in 26 years.Stojberg has been charged with illegally initiating the separation of cohabiting couples where one partner was a minor while being in the care of the Danish asylum system.She also misled parliamentary committees on four separate occasions when informing them of her decision, according to prosecutors.Addressing parliament in February when MPs voted to try her, Stojberg said she did "the only...
September 02, 2021

Rare impeachment trial in Denmark as ex-minister Stojberg accused of splitting migrants

WhatsApp have been fined by the Irish data watchdog over data infringements.
Ireland fines WhatsApp €225m for breaking EU data protection rules
DUBLIN — Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) has fined WhatsApp €225 million for breaking EU rules on user privacy. The authority said that WhatsApp Ireland had failed to provide the necessary data protection information to users.It's the largest fine ever issued by the DPC and the second-largest imposed on an organization under EU data protection laws. The Facebook-owned messaging platform was also cited for failing to meet its "transparency obligations".The initial fine given to WhatsApp was increased by the European Data Protection Board due to "a number of factors", the DPC added.The body, which is the lead data privacy regulator for Facebook within the European Union, said the issues related to whether WhatsApp conformed in 2018 with EU data...
September 02, 2021

Ireland fines WhatsApp €225m for breaking EU data protection rules

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