Taking advantage of calm midnight seas, Pascal Delacour steered his ship toward prized scallop beds within sight of the Channel island of Jersey, kicking off… Read More »Brexit feud puts French scallop fishers in troubled waters

By Jan Strupczewski and John Chalmers BRUSSELS, Oct 19 (Reuters) – The European Commission’s chief executive warned Poland on Tuesday that its challenge to the… Read More »EU warns Poland it will pay for challenging common law

Power shortages are turning out streetlights and shutting down factories in China. The poor in Brazil are choosing between paying for food or electricity. German… Read More »Energy crunch hits global recovery as winter approaches

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Africa’s rare glaciers will disappear in the next two decades because of climate change, a new report warned Tuesday amid sweeping… Read More »Climate report: Africa’s rare glaciers soon to disappear

BEIJING, Oct. 18, 2021 /CNW/ — Peng Liyuan, wife of Chinese President Xi Jinping, called for promoting digital and health education for girls and women… Read More »CCTV+: Peng Liyuan urges advancing health, digital education for girls, women

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s government will soon require public servants to have a vaccination certificate or show a weekly negative COVID-19 test before entering their… Read More »Egypt to require virus vaccinations for civil servants

LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will lead a special session of tributes in Parliament on Monday to the Conservative lawmaker stabbed to… Read More »UK prime minister to lead tributes to slain lawmaker Amess

* Possible EU-Iran talks about talks later this week * Negotiations some way off after four-month hiatus * Iran denies seeking nuclear arms, West wary… Read More »UPDATE 2-EU’s Borrell ‘optimistic’ about possible new Iran talks