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Paris, France | Xinhua | Europe could face a shortage of as much as 30 billion cubic meters (bcm) of natural gas during the key summer period for refilling its gas storage sites in 2023, the International Energy Agency (IEA) warned on Thursday. “Europe needs to take immediate action to avoid …

United Nations | Xinhua | UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday called for multilateralism and diplomacy to make the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference 2022 (COP27) in Egypt “turning points for hope.” “COP27 must be the place to rebuild trust and re-establish the ambition needed to avoid driving our planet over …

Islamabad, Pakistan | Xinhua | At least five people, including Pakistan’s former prime minister and chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) Imran Khan, were injured on Thursday after his political convoy was shot at in the eastern Punjab province, a party leader told Xinhua. The PTI Secretary General Asad Umar …

United Nations | Xinhua | UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warmly welcomes the announcement from Russia on its resumed participation in the implementation of a deal to facilitate grain export via the Black Sea, his spokesman said on Wednesday. Guterres is grateful for the diplomatic efforts of Türkiye, and thanks UN coordinator …

Russia and Ukraine separately signed a deal in Istanbul with Türkiye and the United Nations to resume grain shipments from Ukrainian ports to international markets via the Black Sea Moscow, Russia | Xinhua | Russia on Wednesday announced its return to the implementation of a grain export deal via the Black …

United States is gearing up for the mid-term elections Beijing, China | Xinhua | Democrats are funding Republican primaries to try to nominate more potentially beatable candidates. Republicans are transporting migrants to Democratic-led cities in protest over immigration policy. Both parties are busy gerrymandering to get an upper hand. Former President Donald …

Ankara, Turkey | Xinhua | Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had a phone call with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, aiming to resolve the grain export impasse. In the phone call, Erdogan told Putin that Türkiye was making efforts with all sides to solve problems about the implementation of …

Jerusalem, Israel | Xinhua | Exit polls from Israel’s parliamentary elections suggested Tuesday that former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s bloc has a good chance of making a comeback after the country’s fifth elections since 2019. Exit polls of three main Israeli TV channels indicated that the long-time leader and his alliance …

Brasilia, Brazil | Xinhua | After winning the second round of voting on Sunday, President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of the Workers’ Party is expected to remodel the largest Latin American economy during the four-year presidential term starting from Jan. 1, 2023. Analysts believe that the victory of Lula, …

Stockholm, Sweden | Xinhua |  Sweden’s economy is heading for a “grim winter,” the country’s government said here on Monday. “We don’t know yet how cold and grim it will be,” Finance Minister Elisabeth Svantesson said at a press conference here. The government expects Sweden’s gross domestic product (GDP) to …