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Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki addressing a press conference.
Poland stops supplying weapons to Ukraine as grain row escalates
WARSAW — One of Ukraine's staunchest allies, Poland, has said it is no longer supplying weapons to its neighbor, as a diplomatic dispute over grain escalates.Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said Poland's focus was instead on defending itself with more modern weapons.Poland has already sent Ukraine 320 Soviet-era tanks and 14 MiG-29 fighter jets and has little more to offer.However, the remarks coincide with high tensions between the two neighbors.On Tuesday, Poland summoned Ukraine's ambassador over comments made by President Volodymyr Zelensky at the United Nations after Poland, Hungary and Slovakia extended a ban on Ukrainian grain.Zelensky said it was alarming how some of Ukraine's friends in Europe were playing out solidarity "in a political theatre — making...
September 21, 2023

Poland stops supplying weapons to Ukraine as grain row escalates

President Nikos Christodoulides of the Republic of Cyprus addresses the general debate of the General Assembly’s 78th session. — courtesy UN Photo/Cia Pak
Cyprus president: Do we have the resolve to make peace our top priority?
NEW YORK — President of Cyprus Nikos Christodoulides condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, emphasized the need for the UN to live up to its founding principles to ensure respect for the sovereignty of all States, and discussed steps to tackle the climate crisis during his address to the annual General Assembly debate in New York.Christodoulides issued renewed condemnation of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and urged member states to live up to the commitments outlined in the UN Charter.“The horrors of the second world war, which began in Europe and consumed the world, brought nations together. We, assembled here today, must live up to the obligations prescribed in the UN Charter,” said Christodoulides.“As we stand on the shoulders of our predecessors, we remain accountable to...
September 20, 2023

Cyprus president: Do we have the resolve to make peace our top priority?

UK easing transition to electric vehicles — Sunak
Sunak delays petrol car ban in major shift on green policies
LONDON — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has delayed a ban on new petrol and diesel cars in a major change to the government’s approach to achieving net zero by 2050.The prime minister announced exemptions and delays to several key green policies, alongside a 50% increase in cash incentives to replace gas boilers.The government could not impose “unacceptable costs” linked to reducing emissions on British families, he said. Sunak denied he was “watering down” the government’s net zero commitments.The changes come as Sunak seeks to create dividing lines with opposition parties ahead of a general election, expected next year.Framing the changes as “pragmatic and proportionate”, the prime minister has unpicked several of Boris Johnson’s key policies, many of them...
September 20, 2023

Sunak delays petrol car ban in major shift on green policies

Ariane Lavrilleux. — courtesy CPJ
French police arrest reporter over leaked secrets
PARIS — A French journalist has been detained by French police in connection with a 2021 report which alleged that French intelligence was used by Egypt to target and kill civilians.Police reportedly searched Ariane Lavrilleux’s house on Sept. 19 and later took her into custody.Her lawyer said Lavrilleux was being questioned as part of an investigation into compromising national security. Amnesty International France has condemned the arrest.“We’re very worried,” said Amnesty’s Katia Roux. “To put in police custody a journalist for doing her job, moreover for revealing information of public interest, could be a threat to freedom of the press and confidentiality of sources.”Lavrilleux is reportedly being questioned by police officers from the French intelligence service —...
September 20, 2023

French police arrest reporter over leaked secrets

A girl in tears in hospital in Nagorno-Karabakh. Women and children are among the 27 dead and 200 wounded in Karabakh, local authorities say
Nagorno-Karabakh forces agree Azerbaijan demand to disarm
LONDON — Twenty-four hours after Azerbaijan's army launched an offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh, ethnic-Armenian forces have agreed Russian terms for a ceasefire.One of the key demands that Karabakh forces have accepted is a proposal for complete disarmament.Some 120,000 ethnic Armenians live in the South Caucasus enclave, recognized internationally as part of Azerbaijan.Three years ago, Azerbaijan recaptured areas in and around Karabakh and on Tuesday demanded a full surrender.Karabakh officials say at least 27 people have been killed and another 200 wounded since the Azerbaijani military launched what it called "anti-terror" operations.Azerbaijan's presidency said officials would meet Karabakh's Armenian representatives for talks on "issues of...
September 20, 2023

Nagorno-Karabakh forces agree Azerbaijan demand to disarm

Eva Kaili
Greek MEP takes Belgian justice system to court for violating her parliamentary immunity
STRASBOURG — Eva Kaili, the Greek MEP at the heart of a corruption scandal gripping the European Parliament, is taking the Belgian justice system to court alleging the country's police and secret services violated her parliamentary immunity.Kaili, who was arrested last December and charged with corruption, launched her case on Tuesday in a Brussels court. She is following in the footsteps of two other MEPs involved in the scandal, Belgium's Marc Tarabella and Italy's Andrea Cozzolino, who have launched similar lawsuits.The three of them, as well as Kaili's domestic partner and former parliamentary assistant Francesco Giorgi and three-term socialist Pier Antonio Panzeri, are accused of accepting hundreds of thousands of euros from Qatari and Moroccan officials in exchange...
September 20, 2023

Greek MEP takes Belgian justice system to court for violating her parliamentary immunity

A man waves a Georgian national flag in front of a burning barricade as other protesters stand behind near the Georgian parliament building in Tbilisi, 9 March 2023.
Tbilisi accuses Ukrainian official of plot to overthrow Georgian government
TBILISI — Georgia’s State Security Service (SSG) has accused a senior Ukrainian official of trying to topple the Caucasian country's government, at a time of fraught relations between Kyiv and Tbilisi .The SSG claimed Georgi Lortkipanidze, the deputy head of Ukrainian military intelligence, was "plotting" to "violently overthrow" those in power this winter.Lortkipanidze is a former member of a strongly pro-Western Georgian government.Ukraine rejected these accusations as false, while the SSG did not provide evidence to support their claims.Under the increasingly pro-Russian Georgian Dream party, Tbilisi has allegedly helped the Kremlin, even though a majority of Georgians support Ukraine.This is at least the seventh time since Georgian Dream came to power in...
September 20, 2023

Tbilisi accuses Ukrainian official of plot to overthrow Georgian government

Rishi Sunak seen in this file photo.
Sunak considering weakening key green policies
LONDON —British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is considering weakening some of the government’s key green commitments in a major policy shift.It could include delaying a ban on the sales of new petrol and diesel cars and phasing out gas boilers, multiple sources have told the BBC.The PM is preparing to set out the changes in a speech in the coming days.There is no suggestion that Sunak is considering abandoning the legal commitment to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050.But he is expected to declare that other countries need to bear more of the burden of dealing with climate change.If Sunak presses ahead with the plan it would represent a significant shift in the Conservative Party’s approach to net zero policy, as well as establishing a clear dividing line with the Labour...
September 19, 2023

Sunak considering weakening key green policies

Children line up outside a community education class in Spera District, Afghanistan. Reaching the SDGs will likely cost more than $1,200 per person per year to 2030. — courtesy UNICEF/Mihalis Gripiotis
Annual cost for reaching the SDGs? More than $5 trillion: UNCTAD
GENEVA — The cost of achieving ambitious sustainable development targets is estimated at between $5.4 and $6.4 trillion per year between now and 2030, UN economists said on Tuesday.According to the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), this represents between $1,179 and $1,383 per person, per year.The study factors in 50 SDG indicators across 90 countries, covering three quarters of the global population.For the world’s 48 developing economies, the shortfall is estimated at $337 billion annually, if they are to take the required action on climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution.When expanded to cover all developing economies, using the median per-capita cost for the 48 in the study, total annual needs rise to between $6.9 trillion and $7.6 trillion.Although finding...
September 19, 2023

Annual cost for reaching the SDGs? More than $5 trillion: UNCTAD

Grain being collected during a harvest near Kyiv, Ukraine. In this file photo. — courtesy EPA
Ukraine sues EU neighbors over food imports ban
KYIV — Ukraine has filed lawsuits to the World Trade Organization (WTO) against Slovakia, Poland and Hungary over their bans on food imports from Kyiv.It said such restrictions were a violation of international obligations by Ukraine’s EU neighbors.They say the bans are needed to protect their farmers from cheap imports.Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year all but closed the main Black Sea shipping lanes, with large grain quantities ending up in central Europe.“It is crucially important for us to prove that individual member states cannot ban imports of Ukrainian goods,” Ukrainian Economy Minister Yulia Svyrydenko said in a statement on Monday.“That is why we are filing lawsuits against them [Slovakia, Poland and Hungary] to the WTO.”She added that Ukrainian...
September 18, 2023

Ukraine sues EU neighbors over food imports ban

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