Russia launched an Iranian satellite into orbit from southern Kazakhstan, according to the Russian State Space Corporation (Roscosmos).
Russia’s natural gas exports by pipeline to the European Union and the UK declined by almost 40% during the first seven months of 2022 compared with the same period in 2021, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said.
Former Chancellor and leadership candidate Rishi Sunak warned the Conservative Party of an electoral defeat if the incoming government failed to offer support to the public over soaring energy bills.
Venezuela announced that it plans to reestablish military ties with Colombia after years of deteriorating relations between the two countries.
Albuquerque police said 51-year-old Muhammad Syed has been charged with the murders of two Muslim men while authorities are continuing to pursue charges for two other killings.
US President Joe Biden signed documents lending the US’ formal endorsement to Finland and Sweden becoming NATO’s newest members, saying their entry will make the alliance “stronger than ever.”
Biden also signed legislation into law that aims to bolster US chip manufacturing in a bid to counter China.
US companies announced $50 billion in additional investments this week in semiconductor manufacturing with the signing of the CHIPS and Science Act, the White House said.
Mexico said it plans to send a team to fight a fire at an oil refinery in the industrial city of Matanzas, Cuba.
Türkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan inaugurated the 5th Islamic Solidarity Games in the country’s central province of Konya.
Türkiye’s seventh-generation drill ship, the Abdulhamid Han, will set off for its first two-month-long mission in the Mediterranean, Energy and Natural Resources Minister Fatih Donmez said.
Türkiye is now in the business of natural gas exploration with its four drill ships and two seismic research vessels, said President Erdogan.
Serena Williams, a 23-time Grand Slam singles champion, hinted at retirement from the sport after this year’s US Open tennis tournament.
The Daesh/ISIS terrorist group has significantly increased its use of unmanned aerial systems or drones in the past year, the UN warned.
Russia’s war on Ukraine “has fundamentally undermined the already fragile trust between the West and Russia,” Slovenia’s president said in Türkiye.
Australia’s New South Wales state took a major stride in criminalizing the display of Nazi symbols.
China continued its exceptional military exercises around self-ruled Taiwan as part of its “countermeasures” against the island nation of 24 million people, which hosted US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for less than 24 hours last week. Taiwan conducted live-fire defense drills.
The Greek prime minister bears the political responsibility for the surveillance of politicians and journalists by the country’s intelligence service, according to the main opposition party Syriza.
Long queues of voters were seen at polling stations in Nairobi as voting to elect Kenya’s president for the next five years began Tuesday morning.
The European Union announced €261 million ($267 million) of funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).
Blasts rocked an airbase in Ukraine’s Russian-occupied Crimean Peninsula, local sources said.
A Palestinian teenager was shot dead by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank and three Palestinians were killed in an Israeli raid in Nablus, the Health Ministry said.
The European Union has called for a probe following the recent upsurge of violence in Gaza because innocent civilians were killed, including a child, said an EU official.
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) announced that it has started a rolling review for a new version of Pfizer-BioNTech’s coronavirus vaccine which has been adapted to the latest omicron subvariant.
Israel’s President Isaac Herzog and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin discussed the Jewish Agency crisis that emerged with Moscow’s move to ban the Russian branch of the immigration agency, according to a statement by the Israeli presidency.
Ukraine’s main oil pipeline system operator, Ukrtransnafta, suspended oil transportation through the Ukrainian pipeline network on Aug. 4, a Russian state-owned media company reported.
Türkiye’s National Defense Ministry said that two more ships carrying over 70,000 tons of grain have left Ukraine’s port as part of a grain export deal signed in Istanbul.
Source: Anadolu Agency
