Italy and China on Sunday signed a three-year pact for economic cooperation, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said after a meeting with Chinese Premier Li Qiang. Meloni said during her state visit in Beijing that she aims to use the document to explore new opportunities for cooperation with China, but the exact contents of the...
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Paris dazzles with stunning Olympics opening ceremony in the rain
The Paris Olympics opened on a rain-soaked Friday with an extraordinary and colourful ceremony in the heart of the French capital, culminating in an Olympic cauldron lifted into the nighttime sky by a hot air balloon. At times torrential rain did neither dampen the mood of athletes who paraded on boats on the Seine, nor...
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UN chief warns of harms from ‘crippling heat’ as temps hit records
Antonio Guterres warned Earth was becoming “hotter and more dangerous for everyone, everywhere,” as he pointed to a deadly heatwave hitting Africa’s Sahel region, 1,300 people dying in scorching conditions in the Hajj in Saudi Arabia, record temperatures in the United States and Europe’s “sweatbox cities.” And the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service declared Sunday...
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Speaker Gashi condemns threats addressed at DUI lawmakers, urges investigation
Parliament Speaker Afrim Gashi said Saturday that DUI lawmakers have received e-mails with threats from an unknown sender, urging institutions to investigate the case. Speaker Gashi condemns any form of threat, attempt of violence or inciting violence. MPs are elected by citizens and while freedom of speech is absolute, the freedom of others cannot be...
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Illness forces tennis world number 1 Jannik Sinner out of Olympics
Italian tennis star Jannik Sinner has pulled out of the Olympic Games in Paris due to illness. The current world number one announced on Instagram on Wednesday that he is suffering from tonsillitis and is “not feeling well.” His doctor had urgently advised him not to take part in the Olympic tennis tournament, which runs...
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US arrests Mexican drug lord ‘El Mayo’ Zambada
Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, a key figure in Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel and one of the country’s most influential drug lords, has been arrested in El Paso, a US border city. US Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the arrest on Thursday, which also involved Joaquín Guzmán López, the son of Zambada’s former partner and infamous cartel...
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Skopje marks 61st anniversary of deadly earthquake
Skopje marks Friday the 61st anniversary of the 1963 deadly earthquake, which killed 1,070 people and 3,000 were injured. The Museum of the City of Skopje hosts an exhibit, “The cultural institutions in Skopje after the 1963 earthquake.” It opens at 8:30 pm. The Cinematheque of Macedonia this evening will screen short Macedonian films dedicated...
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İstanbul court releases 2 former Zaman daily editors under judicial supervision
An İstanbul court has ruled for the release of two former editors from the now-closed Zaman daily from pre-trial detention under judicial supervision, the independent journalism organization Platform 24 (P24) announced. The decision by the İstanbul 26th High Criminal Court on Thursday concerns Zaman’s former deputy editor-in-chief Mehmet Kamış and former arts and culture editor...
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Extreme heat in Moroccan city kills 21
At least 21 people have died due to high temperatures in a Moroccan city, health authorities in the North African country said on Thursday. The deaths were registered on Wednesday in the city of Beni Mellal, about 300 kilometres south of the capital Rabat, the kingdom’s state news agency MAP reported, citing local health authorities....
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Twenty-six new whooping cough cases, 931 in total
Twenty-six new cases of whooping cough (pertussis) were registered in North Macedonia between July 12-18, two of whom hospitalized, shows the latest weekly report of the Public Health Institute released on Friday. Most of the new cases (10) were recorded in Skopje, followed by Kumanovo (7), Kratovo (2), Tetovo (2), and one each in Gevgelija,...