The Suez Canal welcomed on Thursday the maiden voyage of the AICC HUANGHU, a car carrier transporting 4,202 vehicles. The vessel, sailing under the Marshall Islands flag, traveled from Shanghai, China, to Derince Port in Turkey, and is the first of (...)
The World Bank launched a $2.5 billion programme to support renewable energy adoption in East Asia and the Pacific, as part of its global climate change and sustainable development efforts.
The Accelerating Sustainable Energy Transition Programme is (...)
The World Bank has announced a $68 million project to support seven Pacific Island countries in maintaining access to global financial systems by enhancing correspondent banking relationships (CBRs).
The initiative will benefit Fiji, Kiribati, the (...)
The Pacific region is projected to grow by 3.3 per cent in 2024 and 4 per cent in 2025, according to the latest Asian Development Bank (ADB) Pacific Economic Monitor (PEM).
While this positive outlook is driven by factors such as the recovery of (...)
Oil tankers used by Russia have ceased operating under the Liberian and Marshall Islands flags due to increased US sanctions enforcement, which highlights the close ties between the US and the flag administration companies of these countries, which (...)
اجتاحت أمواج عاتية أجزاء من منشأة عسكرية أمريكية رئيسية فى وسط المحيط الهادئ، ما تسبب فى أضرار سيستغرق إصلاحها أشهرًا، وفقًا لتقرير الجيش الأمريكي.
أظهر مقطع فيديو نُشر على منصة إكس، موجة مرعبة من المياه فى جزيرة روى نامور، ثانى أكبر جزيرة فى (...)
عاش جنود قاعدة عسكرية أمريكية لحظات مرعبة بعد اجتياح أمواج عاتية للثكنة العسكرية الواقعة في جزر مارشال غربي المحيط الهادئ.
أمواج تجتاح قاعدة عسكرية أمريكية
وحطمت الأمواج بشكل مفاجئ أبواب القاعدة الموجودة في جزر مارشال غربي المحيط الهادئ، وتسببت (...)
نفذ الجيش الأمريكي، الخميس، للمرة الرابعة في أقل من أسبوع، ضربات في اليمن على مواقع تابعة للحوثيين، استهدفت صواريخ كانت معدة للإطلاق، فيما أعلنت الولايات المتحدة إدراج الحوثيين اليمنيين على قائمة الكيانات «الإرهابية» بسبب هجماتهم المتكررة على (...)
On the sidelines of COP28, Indigenous people from some of the countries most impacted by climate change relayed their personal experiences of how global warming is affecting remote regions around the world in a statement to Al Arabiya English on (...)
A top United Nations panel of scientists stressed on Monday the urgency to adopt responsible climate actions, according to Associated Press New.
Walking on thin ice
Paris Climate Agreement signed in 2015 set a global goal of limiting warming to 1.5 (...)
For the past two days, United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference (COP26) President-Designate Alok Sharma has met with climate and environment ministers and representatives from over 50 countries, including Egypt's Minister of Environment Yasmine (...)
President Joe Biden is including rivals Vladimir Putin of Russia and Xi Jinping of China among the invitees to the first big climate talks of his administration, an event the U.S. hopes will help shape, speed up and deepen global efforts to cut (...)
World leaders breathed an audible sigh of relief that the United States under President Joe Biden is rejoining the global effort to curb climate change, a cause that his predecessor had shunned over the past four years.
British Prime Minister Boris (...)
In the murky story of how a cache of highly explosive ammonium nitrate ended up on the Beirut waterfront, one thing is clear -- no one has ever publicly come forward to claim it.
There are many unanswered questions surrounding last week's huge, (...)
India's foreign ministry said on Monday that 20 of its nationals had been kidnapped from an oil tanker in West African waters, where piracy has been on the rise.
"Our Mission in Abuja has taken up the matter with the Nigerian authorities, as also (...)
European Union finance ministers agreed to remove the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Switzerland from the bloc's lists of countries deemed to be acting as tax havens, according to a statement on Thursday.
At a meeting in Luxembourg, ministers (...)
European Union governments adopted a broadened blacklist of tax havens on Tuesday, the EU commission said in a statement.
Ten jurisdictions were added to the list. It had previously included five.
Aruba, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Fiji, Marshall (...)
An EU Commissioner called it “the biggest scandal in Europe today.” The Danske Bank-Russia money laundering affair is a shock for many in Denmark — for high-end UK realtors it's just a supply chain glitch.While talking about “the biggest scandal in (...)
A further drop in the value of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies has recently left investors nursing heavy losses. Many proponents are holding out for a new breakout, if their digital assets can go mainstream.Social Media influencers may be (...)
The United States said on Friday it was imposing its largest package of sanctions to pressure North Korea to give up its nuclear missile program, and President Donald Trump warned of a "phase two" that could be "very, very unfortunate for the world" (...)
اقرأ باللغة العربية
Mass demonstrations continue to rage in most cities of the West Bank and Gaza in response to US President Trump's decision, 6 December 2017, to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Israeli occupation forces have met (...)
A United Nations General Assembly resolution calling for the U.S. to withdraw its decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital passed overwhelmingly on Thursday despite threats from President Trump to cut funding to U.S. aid recipients who (...)
Two Palestinians were killed and 45 injured amid newly triggered riots following the UN General Assembly's vote on Jerusalem. With an overwhelming majority, the UN Gbody voted on Thursday in favour of a resolution that denounces any unilateral (...)
National leaders from across the world have issued statements welcoming the UN General Assembly resolution on Thursday that called on the United States to reverse its recent decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
A total of 128 (...)
With an overwhelming majority, the UN General Assembly voted in favour of a resolution that outlaws any unilateral decision regarding the status of Jerusalem. The decision, though not mentioning the US by name, is a major rebuke of Trump's (...)
