The Zvezda Scientific and Production Enterprise is the only Russian producer of spacesuits.

EU member states reiterated their commitment to the Paris Agreement ahead of the United Nations climate summit next month, saying they expect a 2009 pledge to provide $100 billion per year in financial assistance to developing nations “will be met in 2023”.

Leaders of 44 European countries will gather in Prague on Thursday (6 October) for the inaugural summit of the European Political Community (EPC), a new format searching for a purpose as multiple crises hit the continent.

A month before Egypt hosts the UN climate change conference, Cairo is finalising the list of world leaders coming as it weathers criticism over its human rights and environmental records.

Ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2022 (COP27) that Egypt is hosting in November, the government is considering selecting 18 national green and sustainable development projects out of 6,281 projects competing in the National Initiative for Green and Sustainable Development to benefit from international or regional funding.

Security experts say Somalia’s government must focus on strengthening its security system to defeat the terrorist group al-Shabab.

For Bulgaria, the growth forecast is 2.9% for this year.

But the EU executive insists that a broad range of voices have already been heard on the contentious issue.

Honey from eastern Slovakia has been given protected status by the EU.

The head of the European Union’s powerful lending arm has urged leaders not to backslide on climate targets amid the energy crisis and signalled a joint action plan from the world’s top development banks at next month’s COP 27 summit and on Ukraine.