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Rome, Italy | Xinhua | New data released Wednesday by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) shows that while billions of people around the world cannot afford a healthy diet, the cost of such a diet varies significantly between regions. The agency, headquartered in Rome, based its findings on …

Swill oil from hotpots transformed into jet fuel Chengdu, China | Xinhua | At a bustling hotpot restaurant in southwest China’s Sichuan Province, waiters pour each pot of leftover oil into a funnel-shaped oil-water separator in the kitchen. This oil is then sent to energy companies including Finnish Neste, PetroChina …

Hong Kong | THE INDEPENDENT | CNOOC Limited  announced today that it has discovered Bozhong 26-6 oilfield in Bohai Sea, which brings another hundred million tons of reserves. Bozhong 26-6 oilfield is located in the south of Bohai Sea, with an average water depth of 22 meters. The main oil-bearing …

Ankara, Turkey | Xinhua | Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Wednesday that his government plans to hold the presidential and parliamentary elections on May 14, as the country is still recovering from two devastating earthquakes that struck a large swathe of its southern region in early February. “The time …

London, UK | THE INDEPENDENT |  The Co-Financing, Syndications and Client Solutions department of the African Development Bank Group  has met with London-based insurers to galvanize continued support of the Bank’s balance sheet optimization and mobilization ambitions, in line with its 2023 lending program. The Bank held an investor relationship …

Berlin, Germany | Xinhua | Germany’s Transport Minister Volker Wissing has expressed reservations regarding a planned ban on new cars with internal combustion engines in the European Union (EU) from 2035. A member of the Free Democratic Party (FDP), Wissing is calling for an exception for internal combustion vehicles fueled by …

Los Angeles, U.S. | Xinhua | The family of late NBA star Kobe Bryant will receive a 28.85 million U.S. dollars settlement from Los Angeles County, in the western U.S. state of California, over the retired NBA star helicopter crash photos. The settlement would resolve all claims involving the county, Mira …

Stockholm, Sweden | Xinhua | The largest nuclear reactor in Sweden will be taken off the grid for eight days due to a damaged fuel rod, Dagens Nyheter (DN) newspaper reported on Tuesday. Unit 3 at the Oskarshamn nuclear power plant in the southeast of the country will be disconnected …

Los Angeles, U.S. | Xinhua | A new study has found that apremilast, a drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of psoriasis, cuts alcohol intake by more than half in people with severe alcohol use disorder (AUD). The drug was known to block a molecule …

Tehran, Iran | Xinhua | Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian on Tuesday blamed the U.S. “miscalculation and wrong policy” for causing the current stalemate on the revival of a 2015 nuclear deal. Amir-Abdollahian made the remarks in an address to the High-Level Segment of the Conference on Disarmament in the Swiss …