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Moscow, Russia | Xinhua | Russian gas giant Gazprom announced on Wednesday that it will shut down another turbine engine on the Nord Stream 1 natural gas pipeline, thus significantly reducing the amount of gas delivery to Europe. As Germany’s Siemens, the manufacturer of the gas turbine engines, failed to provide …

The European Union on Wednesday launched new legal proceedings against the United Kingdom over its failure to implement parts of the post-Brexit deal it agreed with the bloc Brussels, Belgium | Xinhua | The European Union (EU) has launched legal action against the United Kingdom (UK) in response to the latter’s …

Ankara, Turkey | Xinhua | Turkey is seeking to broker a grain corridor from Ukraine across the Black Sea as part of a United Nations-backed effort to avert a food crisis. Ukraine is a major grain exporter to Africa and the Middle East. As the Russia-Ukraine conflict drags on, disruption to …

Copenhagen, Denmark | Xinhua | Governments, health partners and civil society need to act together with urgency to keep monkeypox at bay in the European region, Hans Kluge, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) regional director for Europe, said on Wednesday. “Europe remains the epicenter of this escalating outbreak, with 25 countries …

Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | As U.S. inflation reached a 40-year high in May, President Joe Biden’s administration is facing “only bad options,” U.S. magazine Newsweek has reported. Over the last few months, the White House has been “badgered with questions about how the president will provide relief to Americans struggling …

Moscow, Russia | Xinhua | Russia has imposed personal sanctions against 29 media representatives and 20 defense figures of the United Kingdom in a retaliatory move, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Tuesday. The media representatives, including journalists working for The Guardian, BBC, and others, and the defense figures, including British Minister …

Geneva, Switzerland | Xinhua | The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday that it will convene a meeting next week to assess whether the current monkeypox outbreak outside of the traditional endemic areas in Africa has already turned into a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC). “The global outbreak …

Colombo, Sri Lanka | Xinhua | Sri Lanka’s cabinet of ministers has approved a proposal to declare Fridays a holiday for government employees to encourage them to carry out agricultural work to increase production in the country, local media reported on Tuesday. According to a cabinet proposal, the ministers endorsed two key …

Why American policymakers shouldn’t conflate reasserting its global primacy with establishing a more secure world COMMENT | DANI RODRIK | When I started teaching at Harvard’s Kennedy School in the mid-1980s, competition with Japan was the dominant preoccupation of U.S. economic policy. The book `Japan as Number One’ by Harvard’s …

London, UK | Xinhua | Another 104 cases of monkeypox have been recorded in England, taking the national count to 470, the Health Security Agency said Monday in a statement. The agency told people in Britain to contact a sexual health clinic if they have a rash with blisters, and if …