Month: July 2022

Turkish defence minister Hulusi Akar on Wednesday unveiled a centre in Istanbul to oversee the export of Ukrainian grain, after a UN deal last week between Russia and Ukraine. The first shipment is expected to depart from Black Sea ports within days. The joint coordination centre (JCC) will oversee departures from three Ukrainian ports, with […]

French president Emmanuel Macron hosts Saudi Arabia’s crown prince Mohammed bin Salman for talks in Paris on Thursday, despite criticism the invitation is inappropriate four years after the murder by Saudi agents of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, AFP reported. Energy concerns will dominate the agenda as fears over power shortages rise. It is the prince’s (referred […]

The European Commission put forward a new proposal to reduce pesticides in mid-June. But experts warn that it is based on weak rules, and that European agriculture is stuck in a “permanent pesticide-dependence.”

Hotel Giardino, in the tiny skiing resort of Breno, Italy, is run by a staff of refugees as part of a good-news programme aimed at integrating migrants.

Mukhtar Babayev, Azerbaijan’s minister of ecology and natural resources, talks about the country’s environmental challenges.