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BAKU, Azerbaijan, Feb.6. The Interconnector Greece-Bulgaria (IGB) has immensely modified South-East Europe’s vitality map, Govt Officer of ICGB, the pipeline operator, Teodora Georgieva stated in an unique interview with Trend. “This goes into two elements – affect on a nationwide stage for the two host international locations Greece and Bulgaria, …

With a reliance on the U.S. for as much as 40 p.c of our human blood plasma wants, Europe faces a serious problem: we merely don’t acquire sufficient plasma. Some 300,000 uncommon illness sufferers rely upon plasma-derived medicinal merchandise (PDMPs) to deal with a variety of great and life-threating circumstances, …

Paul Taylor is a contributing editor at POLITICO. PARIS — Migration is again on the European Union agenda, however depressingly little has modified for the reason that final time member international locations locked horns on the problem that has defied any and all effort to form a typical coverage. EU …

A centre-right overseas minister and a profession diplomat will battle it out for the presidency of ethnically divided Cyprus within the presidential runoff set for February 12, in response to official voting outcomes introduced on Sunday. With all votes counted within the first spherical of the presidential race, Nikos Christodoulides, …

NICOSIA — Former Cypriot Overseas Minister Nikos Christodoulides led the primary spherical of voting for the nation’s presidency on Sunday and faces a runoff subsequent week towards second-place finisher Andreas Mavroyiannis, a profession diplomat. In a file discipline of 14 candidates, Christodoulides received 32 % of the votes, in line …

Right here’s a day-to-day timeline of occasions main as much as the dramatic shootdown over the water off the East Coast on Saturday. The next is predicated on interviews with three senior U.S. officers, all of whom requested to not be named because of the sensitivity of the state of …

Officers on the SEC stress that no determination has but been made. How a lot the company may ease up on the proposal shouldn’t be clear. The ultimate rule will must be accepted by three of the SEC’s 5 commissioners, together with Gensler, earlier than it could actually take maintain. …

Normal Pervez Musharraf, who seized energy in a cold coup and later led a reluctant Pakistan into aiding the US conflict in Afghanistan towards the Taliban, has died, officers mentioned on Sunday. He was 79. Musharraf, a former particular forces commando, grew to become president by way of the final …

KYIV — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy refused to veto a brand new legislation that strengthens punishment for wayward navy personnel on Thursday, rejecting a petition signed by over 25,000 Ukrainians who argue it’s too harsh. “The key to the combat capability of military units and ultimately of Ukraine’s victory, is compliance …

Michael Jonsson is a deputy analysis director on the Swedish Defence Analysis Company. Final month, two Swedish brothers have been convicted of spying for Russia’s army intelligence service, the Fundamental Directorate of the Basic Workers of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (GRU). However their conviction is simply the …

This newest incident hits house within the U.S. — actually — as a result of the nonstop protection of the balloon’s presence in American airspace and its destruction captured on live video made the China risk actual for a lot of. “This was a pretty big hit for the [public] …

“They decided the best time to do that was when it got over water,” Biden stated. “On Wednesday, President Biden gave his authorization to take down the surveillance balloon as soon as the mission could be accomplished without undue risk to American lives under the balloon’s path,” Protection Secretary Lloyd …