Uzbekistan and Jordan Agree on Uranium and Mineral Exploration
Uzbekistan and Jordan have signed agreements to cooperate in exploring uranium, copper, rare metals, and other critical mineral deposits....
China has begun building a five-station cascade on the Yarlung Zangbo river in Tibet, a $170 billion project that will dwarf the Three Gorges Dam, lift construction shares and alarm India, Bangladesh and environmental groups.
Work got under way on Monday after Premier Li Qiang hailed the venture as a “project of the century,” state news agency Xinhua said. Designed to generate 300 billion kWh a year—roughly the electricity Britain used last year—the complex will tap a 2,000-metre drop along a 50-kilometre stretch of the river before it becomes the Brahmaputra.
Chinese markets treated the announcement as fresh stimulus. The CSI Construction & Engineering Index jumped more than 4 % to a seven-month high, while shares in Power Construction Corporation of China and Arcplus Group hit their 10 % daily limit. Yields on long-dated government bonds rose as investors rotated into equities.
Huatai Securities told clients the build-out would lift demand for cement, tunnelling gear and civil explosives. Citi estimated that, assuming a decade-long schedule, annual spending could add about 120 billion yuan (around $16.5 billion) to gross domestic product.
Li said engineers must “place special emphasis on ecological conservation to prevent environmental damage.” However, non-governmental organisations warned of irreversible harm to one of the plateau’s most biodiverse regions, while experts noted the site’s seismic activity.
India and Bangladesh—downstream on the Brahmaputra—have already voiced concern that the dam could disrupt water supplies or heighten flood risks for millions of people. Beijing maintains the project will meet Tibet’s power needs and feed the national grid “without major downstream impact.”
The scheme is being overseen by the state-owned China Yajiang Group and is expected to begin feeding power to the grid in the 2030s. Officials have yet to say how many residents might be displaced, but the smaller Three Gorges project created nearly one million jobs and forced a similar number of relocations during its two-decade build-out.
AnewZ has learned that India has once again blocked Azerbaijan’s application for full membership in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, while Pakistan’s recent decision to consider diplomatic relations with Armenia has been coordinated with Baku as part of Azerbaijan’s peace agenda.
A day of mourning has been declared in Portugal to pay respect to victims who lost their lives in the Lisbon Funicular crash which happened on Wednesday evening.
Video from the USGS (United States Geological Survey) showed on Friday (19 September) the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii erupting and spewing lava.
At least eight people have died and more than 90 others were injured following a catastrophic gas tanker explosion on a major highway in Mexico City’s Iztapalapa district on Wednesday, authorities confirmed.
A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula on 13 September with no tsunami threat, coming just weeks after the region endured a devastating 8.8-magnitude quake — the strongest since 1952.
Uzbekistan and Jordan have signed agreements to cooperate in exploring uranium, copper, rare metals, and other critical mineral deposits.
Britain will consider tightening the rules on permanent settlement for migrants by requiring them to prove their value to society, interior minister Shabana Mahmood will say on Monday.
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, together with First Lady Mehriban Aliyeva, attended the opening of the 3rd CIS Games in Ganja on 28 September and officially declared the competition open.
On 27 September 2020, under the leadership of the Glorious Supreme Commander Ilham Aliyev, the Azerbaijani Armed Forces launched a full-scale counteroffensive along the front line to repel military provocations by Armenian forces.
On the eve of the United Nations Security Council meeting on Friday to vote on a six-month extension of Iran’s nuclear sanctions under Resolution 2231, Tehran has stepped up its last-minute diplomatic measures to avert the return of pre-2015 sanctions.
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