The state will invest EUR 18 million into remodeling student dorms nationwide, Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski said during his visit to Skopje’s Blazhe Koneski Elementary on Wednesday. Speaking to the press after launching construction works on a new school addition, PM Mickoski said works were already under way on the two Skopje dorms. “More than...
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Turkey seals LNG deal with France’s TotalEnergies
Turkey’s energy minister on Wednesday announced a 10-year deal to receive liquefied natural gas from French firm TotalEnergies as the country, heavily dependent on Russia, seeks to diversify its sources of supply, Agence France-Presse reported. Minister Alparslan Bayraktar said the deal between Turkish state oil and gas company BOTAŞ and TotalEnergies was signed at Gastech,...
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Gov’t establishes Public Finance Management Council
At a session Tuesday the Government established a Public Finance Management Council as the highest coordination body of the Government tasked with monitoring the implementation of public finance management reforms foreseen with the Public Financial Management Reform Programme 2024-2027. The Council, according to the Government, will be composed of a president and nine members. The...
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Nations League: North Macedonia – Armenia 2:0
North Macedonia’s football team secured a 2-0 victory over Armenia Tuesday evening at the Skopje’s national arena in a match from the second round of the UEFA Nations League. The team played with one man down the whole second half after Gjoko Zajkov saw a red card for protesting against referee’s decision. The goals that...
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Meta says can’t help with deleted WhatsApp messages to solve girl’s murder in Turkey
A senior official from Meta Platforms has said it is impossible for the company to give Turkish authorities the deleted WhatsApp conversations of people under investigation over the killing of an 8-year-old girl since the chats are not stored, Deutsche Welle Turkish edition reported. Joshua Breckman, head of communications at Meta, which owns WhatApp, denied...
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Mexhiti in Washington: North Macedonia aims to phase out use of coal by 2050
North Macedonia aims to eliminate the use of coal for energy needs by 2050, complying with the EU’s deadlines for a transition to renewable energy sources, First Deputy PM and Minister of Environment and Physical Planning Izet Mexhiti told the 9th Central and Eastern European Energy Security Conference in Washington. He pointed out that the...
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Taravari: Nine new drugs on positive list to be available free of charge in pharmacies as of September 16
The nine new drugs on the positive list will be available to patients free of charge in pharmacies as of September 16, said Minister of Health Arben Taravari on Wednesday. “We have developed a platform together with the World Health Organization (WHO) that will ensure transparency of the entire process and the future enlargement of...
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WHO: State needs to work on improving people’s access to health care without financial hardship
Despite the recently increased number of publicly financed medicines, catastrophic health spending — or out-of-pocket payments that are large in relation to a household’s capacity to pay for health care — remains a problem in the country, according to a new WHO assessment report on North Macedonia presented Wednesday at a high-level health workshop that...
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Typhoon Yagi kills more than 100 in Vietnam, many still missing
Landslides and widespread flooding triggered by typhoon Yagi have killed more than 100 people in Vietnam, with over 130 still missing, authorities said on Tuesday as recovery and relief efforts continue. At least 16 people were killed in a mountainous province in northern Vietnam when severe flash floods unleashed by the storm destroyed an entire...
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UN warns humanitarian situation in Gaza Strip ‘beyond catastrophic’
The humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip is “beyond catastrophic,” the United Nations warned on Thursday. More than 1 million people did not receive any food rations in August in southern and central Gaza through humanitarian means, UN spokesman Stéphane Dujarric said. “Despite the challenges we face, the UN and other humanitarian organizations continue to...