The EU Council decided to impose restrictive measures against six individuals and three entities responsible for or involved in various cyber-attacks. These include the attempted cyber-attack against the OPCW (Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons) and those publicly known as ‘WannaCry’, ‘NotPetya’, and ‘Operation Cloud Hopper’.
04/08/2020Read more
The Emergency Committee on COVID-19, convened by the WHO Director-General under the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR), held its fourth meeting on 31 July. In its statement following the meeting, published today, it expressed “appreciation for WHO and partners’ COVID-19 pandemic response efforts, and highlighted the anticipated lengthy duration of this COVID-19 pandemic, noting the importance of sustained community, national, regional, and global response efforts.”
04/08/2020Read more
President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko arrived at the Palace of the Republic to address the annual Address to the Belarusian people and the National Assembly, BelTA reported.
04/08/2020Read more
Deputy Minister of Health of Kazakhstan Olzhas Abishev was detained on suspicion of embezzling budget funds. This was announced by the Financial Monitoring Committee of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic on Sunday, 2 August.
02/08/2020Read more
The UAE is the first Arab country to produce nuclear energy, after it was announced on Saturday that Unit 1 of the Abu Dhabi-based Barakah nuclear power plant is now operational.
01/08/2020Read more
Researchers at King’s College London, based on a study of data on symptoms that were observed among 1,600 patients diagnosed with COVID-19 in the USA and the UK, identified 6 types of SARS-Cov-2 coronavirus. This was reported on the website of the Institute for Strategic and Interregional Studies under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
01/08/2020Read more
UN Secretary General António Guterres on Tuesday called for reducing urban inequalities and promoting green, sustainable and inclusive economic recovery.
28/07/2020Read more
World leaders will submit pre-recorded video statements for the United Nations General Assembly session in September, the 193-member organisation has decided, as heads of state and government will not be physically attending the annual gathering due to the coronavirus pandemic and the high-level session goes virtual for the first time in the U.N.’s 75-year history.
23/07/2020Read more
The first of 163 nuclear fuel assemblies has been loaded into the VVER-1200 reactor of power unit 2 of Leningrad NPP-2. Fuel loading marks the beginning of the physical start-up of an NPP. The plant is operated by Rosatom’s Electric Power Division Rosenergoatom.
20/07/2020Read more
Following the results of the first day of the summit in Brussels, the heads of state and government of the European Union could not agree on the formation of a seven-year budget plan for 2021-2027 and a fund for the recovery of the community economy after the pandemic, Euronews reports.
18/07/2020Read more
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