US Envoy for Energy Affairs Amos Hochstein spoke with a negotiating team from Israel’s Energy Ministry over the weekend, discussing proposals he received from Lebanese leadership during a trip to Beirut earlier this month.
“The exchanges were productive and advanced the objective of narrowing differences between the two sides,” the…
The health ministry said on Sunday that Cyprus was investing a social policy to address addiction to narcotics, in a message to mark World Day Against Drugs and Drug Trafficking.
The social policy was being based on EU standards “so that we can all feel that scientifically proven steps have…
Windcraft Music Fest is preparing a groovy comeback, with an international line-up of bands that infuse musical traditions of the world with jazz and electronic dance beats. The 8th edition of the festival on August 5, 6 and 7 will again see wind instruments have the starring role. In addition…
The five-bedroom house in Cadogan Gardens, Knightsbridge, a stone’s throw from high-end store Harrods, belonged to Lebanon’s billionaire Hariri family and was sold to a businessman for £19.75 million ($24m).
The family commissioned Mr Pinto to refurbish and interior design the Rutland Gate mansion, creating one of London’s most magnificent…
The European Union will temporarily shift back to coal to cope with slowing Russian gas flows, an EU official said on Wednesday, as a tight gas market and rocketing prices set off a race for alternative fuels.
European leaders have rounded on Russia after flows through its Nord Stream 1 pipeline were cut to just 40% of capacity, deepening an energy standoff after the invasion of Ukraine prompted Europe to impose tough sanctions on Moscow.
The EU and other developed economies have sanctioned Russian oil and coal but held off banning gas imports.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman began a two-day visit to Egypt on Monday evening, the presidency in Cairo said, kicking off a regional tour extending to Jordan and Turkey.
The crown prince’s regional tour comes weeks ahead of a visit to Saudi Arabia by US President Joe Biden, whose…
The 2022 Lebanon Crisis Response Plan (LCRP) aims to deliver critical assistance to more than three million people as vulnerabilities rise, and to support public infrastructure, services, and the local economy.
Lebanon, which has an overall population of approximately 6.7 million, remains the country hosting the largest number of refugees…
European Commission Vice President Margaritis Schinas on Saturday called on Turkey and the Turkish Cypriot government to do more to stem migrant arrivals on the ethnically divided Mediterranean island.
After a visit to an upgraded migrant facility outside the capital, Nicosia, Schinas said Brussels “won’t let the Turkish Cypriot community…
Australia has not signed up to a US-led statement about Israel and the Palestinian territories, instead raising deep concerns about “human rights abuses and the lack of progress towards a just and enduring two-state solution”.
Gorely said Australia did not support the proposition that Israel was the only country that…
Israel and Egypt plan to boost gas exports to Europe under an agreement signed during a Cairo visit Wednesday by the European Commission president as the bloc seeks to wean itself off Russian gas.
“Russia’s war against Ukraine has exposed our European dependency on Russian fossil fuels, and we want…
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