Новости за 14.07.2021

KUWAIT: Zain Group, a leading telecommunications innovator operating in seven markets across the Middle East and Africa, announces its consolidated financial results for the six months to June 30, 2021. Zain served 48.3 million customers at the end of the period, a 1 percent increase year-on-year (Y-o-Y). For the first six months of 2021 (H1) […]

BRUSSELS: The EU went into battle yesterday to secure a path to its bold pledge of carbon neutrality by 2050, triggering an epic political clash over electric cars and fuel prices that could last for years. The mammoth plan was unveiled by the European Commission and is intended to transform the bloc’s economy from fossil […]

MUMBAI: Food delivery giant Zomato yesterday launched its much-anticipated IPO to raise 93.75 billion rupees ($1.3 billion), India’s biggest this year and the first of a series of public listings by tech unicorns. Zomato-which counts subsidiaries of Uber and Jack Ma’s Ant Group among its existing shareholders-is one of the country’s hottest tech start-ups and […]

SINGAPORE: Singapore Wednesday unveiled one of the world’s biggest floating solar power farms, covering an area the size of 45 football pitches, as part of the city-state’s push to cut greenhouse gas emissions. The project is the country’s most ambitious yet, comprising 122,000 panels on Tengeh Reservoir that will produce enough electricity to run its […]

JOHANNESBURG: Stores and warehouses in South Africa were hit by looters yesterday for a fifth day running despite the troops President Cyril Ramaphosa deployed to try to quell unrest that has claimed 72 lives. As pillaging erupted in the economic capital of Johannesburg and the southeastern province of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa’s main opposition accused radicals […]

PARIS: European special forces involved in anti-jihadist operations in Africa’s Sahel region were given prime position in France’s Bastille Day celebrations yesterday, in a sign of President Emmanuel Macron’s military priorities. The traditional parade on France’s national day returned to the Champs-Elysees after a one-year hiatus caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Roughly 80 French and […]

ADDIS ABABA: Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed yestersday vowed to repel attacks by Ethiopia’s “enemies” after rebels in Tigray launched a fresh offensive to regain territory in the war-torn region. Tigrayan forces this week claimed a series of battlefield gains in a renewed assault that comes two weeks after the federal government declared a unilateral ceasefire […]

KANDAHAR: The Taleban said yesterday they had captured the strategic border crossing of Spin Boldak on the frontier with Pakistan, continuing sweeping gains made since foreign forces stepped up their withdrawal from Afghanistan. The situation on the ground could not immediately be verified, with Afghanistan’s interior ministry denying the report even as social media was […]

KABUL: Married to a much older man in Afghanistan, Wati — who thinks she is around 30 years old — is pregnant for a fifth time in four years, including two miscarriages. She has travelled by car to a government-run maternity clinic in a poor and rural village in southern Kandahar province, the birthplace of […]

TEHRAN: Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said yesterday he hopes his successor can clinch a deal to lift US sanctions, implying that nuclear talks will not conclude before his term ends in August. The Islamic republic has held talks since April in Vienna with major powers on reviving its troubled 2015 nuclear agreement. The accord offered […]