Wednesday August 27, 2025 / 04 , Rabi' al-awwal , 1447
Header Logo
Leading The Way
search-icon
Footer Header
search-icon
SG
Saudi Arabia
Opinion
Discover Saudi
World
Sports
Business
Life
Advertisements
search-logo
  • Home
  • World
  • Europe
World
5761 - 5770 from 11077 . In "World / Europe"
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Saturday announced a reshuffle of his left-wing Cabinet.
Spanish Premier Sanchez announces government reshuffle
MADRID — Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Saturday announced a reshuffle of his left-wing Cabinet. Sanchez, the leader of the Socialist Party (PSOE), heads a government coalition with the hard-left Podemos party.In a statement released as he was meeting with King Felipe to declare his intent to change the composition of the Cabinet, the presidency said the new government's "main objective will be the economic and social recovery of the country."Podemos retains its five portfolios, with the changes affecting only some of the 17 portfolios held by PSOE members or personalities close to them.Sanchez said in a brief speech from the Moncloa Palace, the seat of government, that the new government represents "a generational renewal" as the average age is brought...
July 10, 2021

Spanish Premier Sanchez announces government reshuffle

Wildfires rage in Russia amid high temperatures as forest fires have broken out in Russia's Chelyabinsk region near Kazakhstan.
Wildfires rage in Russia, Spain and the US amid high temperatures
MOSCOW — Forest fires have broken out in Russia's Chelyabinsk region near Kazakhstan and in north-eastern Siberia.The Ministry of Emergency Situations said it has deployed aircraft and a helicopter to fight the fires, as well as 240 personnel to Chelyabinsk where two large villages have been evacuated.Wildfires are also ravaging northeastern Siberia where temperatures have been abnormally high.Russia’s coldest inhabited region, Yakutia, is now in the third year of unusually intense fires and around 300 are now burning.In fact, peat fires had continued to burn throughout last winter in Yakutia, even when the temperature plummeted to minus 50 degrees Centigrade.In May Alexander Kozlov, Russia's Ministry of Natural Resources, said that, due to global warming, the permafrost is...
July 10, 2021

Wildfires rage in Russia, Spain and the US amid high temperatures

A health care worker prepares to administer a COVID-19 vaccine in Brazil. — courtesy PAHO/Karina Zambrana
COVID-19 mRNA vaccines and Myocarditis: Benefits outweigh the risks, says WHO committee
GENEVA — After receiving reports of heart inflammation cases due to myocarditis and pericarditis following vaccination with COVID-19 Pfizer and Moderna shots, World Health Organization (WHO) experts on Friday said that the benefits of the vaccines still outweigh the risks in reducing hospitalizations and deaths due to infection.Myocarditis is an inflammation of the heart muscle and pericarditis an inflammation of the lining that surrounds the heart. While serious illness can result, cases are often mild and respond well to “conservative treatment”, said the COVID-19 subcommittee of the WHO Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety in a statement.Causal associationAccording to the data in the US Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System, approximately 40.6 cases of myocarditis per...
July 10, 2021

COVID-19 mRNA vaccines and Myocarditis: Benefits outweigh the risks, says WHO committee

Nearly one-third of all children in Haiti are in urgent need of emergency relief. — courtesy UNICEF/Manuel Moreno Gonza
A third of Haiti’s children in urgent need of emergency aid: UNICEF
GENEVA — Nearly a third of all children in Haiti — numbering around 1.5 million — are in urgent need of emergency relief due to rising violence, insufficient access to clean water, health and nutrition, said the UN Children’s Fund UNICEF on Friday.Amid a political and economic crisis heightened by the assassination of Haiti’s beleaguered president on Wednesday, young people have also been suffering the long-term impact of disrupted education and protection services amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the threat of hurricanes.UNICEF said it was deeply concerned that further violence and insecurity following the assassination could pose serious challenges to the humanitarian work of its teams on the ground, and their ability to safely reach the most vulnerable children and...
July 10, 2021

A third of Haiti’s children in urgent need of emergency aid: UNICEF

The European Parliament on Wednesday approved two funds, with a total budget of 16 billion euros ($19 billion), to help manage migration flows, ease integration of third-country nationals and improve border management. — Courtesy WAM
EU Parliament approves two funds for asylum and border policies
BRUSSELS —The European Parliament on Wednesday approved two funds, with a total budget of 16 billion euros ($19 billion), to help manage migration flows, ease integration of third-country nationals and improve border management. The 2021-2027 Asylum, Migration, and Integration Fund will receive 9.88 billion euros to strengthen the EU’s common asylum policy, develop legal migration in line with member states’ needs, support the integration of third-country nationals, and contribute to the fight against irregular migration. With a 6.24 billion euros budget over seven years, the Integrated Border Management Fund is intended to help strengthen EU external border management while ensuring fundamental rights are respected. The fund will also contribute to a common, harmonized visa...
July 10, 2021

EU Parliament approves two funds for asylum and border policies

More than 80 million vaccines have been administered across the United Kingdom through the largest and most successful vaccination campaign in the country’s recent history. — Courtesy file photo
More than 80 million COVID-19 vaccines administered across UK
Saudi Gazette reportLONDON — More than 80 million vaccines have been administered across the United Kingdom through the largest and most successful vaccination campaign in the country’s recent history.A total of 80,072,121 doses have been administered in the UK, with 45,697,875 people receiving a first dose (86.8 percent) and 34,374,246 people receiving both doses (65.3 percent), the government said in a press statement.This includes over half (54 percent) of young people aged 18 to 24 in England who have received a first dose — just three weeks after the program was opened to this age group.Commenting on the passing of a major milestone, new Health Secretary Sajid Javid said: “We have now delivered over 80 million vaccine doses across the UK — this a phenomenal achievement....
July 09, 2021

More than 80 million COVID-19 vaccines administered across UK

Currency depreciation has further driven up local food prices in many countries, such as Zimbabwe, Syria, Ethiopia and Venezuela. — Courtesy file photo
Amid COVID-19 job losses, ‘high food prices are hunger’s new best friend,’ WFP warns
ROME — Job losses caused by the COVID-19 pandemic combined with high food prices are making it hard for millions of families to get enough to eat, the World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Thursday.WFP estimates that a record 270 million people worldwide are acutely food insecure or at high risk this year, a 40 percent jump from 2020. “High food prices are hunger’s new best friend. We already have conflict, climate and COVID-19 working together to push more people into hunger and misery. Now food prices have joined the deadly trio,” said Arif Husain, Chief Economist at the UN agency. Food price inflation WFP said countries more likely to experience high food price inflation are those that depend on food imports, or where climatic or conflict shocks could disrupt local food...
July 09, 2021

Amid COVID-19 job losses, ‘high food prices are hunger’s new best friend,’ WFP warns

Psychologists are supporting vulnerable teenagers across eastern Ukraine as the COVID-19 lockdown takes its toll on their mental health. — Courtesy file photo
Child mental health crisis ‘magnified’ by COVID-19, warns UN chief
NEW YORK — Half of the world’s children experience violence on and offline in some form every year, with “devastating and life-long consequences” for their mental health, the UN chief warned a symposium on the issue on Thursday. In a video address to an event organized as part of the High-Level Political Forum (HLPF), on mental health and wellbeing, he said that mental health services have long suffered from neglect and underinvestment, with “too few children” accessing the services they need.Services cut “The COVID-19 pandemic has magnified the problem. Millions of children are out of school, increasing their vulnerability to violence and mental stress, while services have been cut or moved online. “As we consider investing in a strong recovery, support for children’s...
July 09, 2021

Child mental health crisis ‘magnified’ by COVID-19, warns UN chief

The Italian Senate has approved lowering the voting age in senate elections from 25 to 18, paving the way for four million young people to take part. — Courtesy file photo
Italian Senate endorses lowering voting age from 25 to 18
ROME — The Italian Senate has approved lowering the voting age in senate elections from 25 to 18, paving the way for four million young people to take part. Italians aged 18 or above can already cast ballots in national elections for the lower house of Italy's parliament, the Chamber of Deputies. If enough lawmakers in each chamber request it in the next three months, a nationwide constitutional referendum could be held to confirm the new voting age for the upper legislative chamber. Federico D'Inca, the government minister for parliamentary relations and a member of Italy's populist 5-Star Movement, said lowering the voting age for the Senate “favors the participation of the new generations in political life." The 5-Star Movement currently holds the most seats in...
July 09, 2021

Italian Senate endorses lowering voting age from 25 to 18

A British police officer has pleaded guilty to the murder of 33-year-old Sarah Everard — a month after also admitting to her kidnap and rape. — Courtesy file photo
London police officer pleads guilty to murdering Sarah Everard
LONDON — A British police officer has pleaded guilty to the murder of 33-year-old Sarah Everard — a month after also admitting to her kidnap and rape. PC Wayne Couzens, who was a Metropolitan Police officer, abducted the marketing executive in early March while she was walking home from a friend's house in south London. Her body was found a week later in a woodland area in Kent and a post-mortem found she had died from compression to the neck. Everard's disappearance and death — and the involvement of a serving police officer — has become a dominant topic among the British press and public in the following months, prompting many women to discuss common fears for their safety when walking alone at night. Court case Couzens was arrested on March 9, the day before his...
July 09, 2021

London police officer pleads guilty to murdering Sarah Everard

< Previous Next >
footer logo
COPYRIGHT © 2025 WWW.SAUDIGAZETTE.COM.SA - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Powered by NewsPress
NEWS CATEGORY
saudi arabia world opinion business sports esports life
COMPANY
advertisements about us Epaper contact us Archive privacy policy