Hong Kong’s leader John Lee said he “laughs off” United States sanctions amid calls to seize a superyacht linked to Russian billionaire Alexey Mordashov.

In order to combat climate change, New Zealand on Tuesday proposed taxing the greenhouse gases produced by farm animals when they burp and urinate.

Germany’s parliament is debating its deployment of troops to Mali and other Sahel states that are part of the multinational European Union Training Mission in Mali (EUTM) and the United Nations peacekeeping mission (MINUSMA).

Climate activist Greta Thunberg told German public television on Tuesday that she would consider it a mistake to switch off existing nuclear power plants and to focus on coal instead to generate electricity.

Japanese people have a strong work ethic.

The Austrian government said Monday it has filed a legal complaint with the European Union’s top court over plans by the bloc’s executive branch to label natural gas and nuclear power generation as sustainable energies.

Representatives of 184 states at the United Nations body for civil aviation agreed on an “aspirational” goal of net-zero CO2 emissions by 2050, a target which will heavily rely on offsetting measures outside the sector.

Staunchly anti-nuclear Austria said on Friday (7 October) it had followed through on a pledge to file a legal challenge to the European Union’s inclusion of natural gas and nuclear energy in a list of “green” investments.

North Macedonia civil society has reacted to the government’s decision to revoke seven concessions for small hydropower plants in the National Park Shar Planina.

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