EBRD provides $590 mln to Ukraine's Naftogaz for emergency gas purchase
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has provided a €500 million loan (almost $590 million) to the national gas company Nafto...
Britain’s Thames Water has announced a temporary hosepipe ban starting July 22, aiming to reduce water consumption across much of southern England after the driest and warmest spring in over a century.
The country’s largest water supplier said the restrictions will affect households in counties including Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, and Berkshire. Under the ban, the use of hosepipes for washing cars, watering gardens or allotments, filling paddling or swimming pools, and cleaning windows will be prohibited.
Other providers, such as Yorkshire Water and South East Water, have also imposed similar restrictions in recent days.
“This spring and summer have been particularly difficult,” said Nevil Muncaster, Thames Water’s Strategic Water Resources Director. “With the ongoing hot and dry conditions, we don’t expect any immediate improvement and must act now.”
Last month, the government pledged to increase efforts to safeguard water supplies as reservoir levels across England dropped to 77%, significantly below the seasonal norm of 93%.
Experts warn that climate change is contributing to more frequent droughts and increasingly dry summers.
The world’s biggest dance music festival faces an unexpected setback as a fire destroys its main stage, prompting a last-minute response from organisers determined to keep the party alive in Boom, Belgium.
A powerful eruption at Japan’s Shinmoedake volcano sent an ash plume more than 3,000 metres high on Sunday morning, prompting safety warnings from authorities.
According to the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), a magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck the Oaxaca region of Mexico on Saturday.
A resumption of Iraq’s Kurdish oil exports is not expected in the near term, sources familiar with the matter said on Friday, despite an announcement by Iraq’s federal government a day earlier stating that shipments would resume immediately.
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake struck 56 kilometres east of Gorgan in northern Iran early Sunday morning, according to preliminary seismic data.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will meet British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in London on Thursday, a day before U.S. President Donald Trump holds talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska.
A major forest fire in northern Morocco is now largely under control, though efforts to fully extinguish it are still underway, the national water and forests agency (ANEF) said on Wednesday.
Supporters of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) threw flares and firecrackers at anti-government protesters in Novi Sad on Wednesday evening, according to Reuters, prompting police to intervene to end the standoff, a major escalation of nine-month-long protests in Serbia.
Start your day informed with AnewZ Morning Brief: here are the top news stories for the 14th of August, covering the latest developments you need to know.
WhatsApp said Russia was trying to block its services because the social media messaging app owned by Meta Platforms META.O offered people's right to secure communication, and vowed to continue trying to make encrypted services available in Russia.
You can download the AnewZ application from Play Store and the App Store.
What is your opinion on this topic?
Leave the first comment