October 3, 2023
Cyprus has formally called on the European Union to re-evaluate which areas of Syria can be declared safe and free from armed conflict so that Syrian migrants can eventually be repatriated there, Cypriot authorities said Friday. Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou was the sole official to raise the issue during July’s informal gathering of his EU
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AS part of its long-term goal of creating a microclimate zone in the future, the Mariano Marcos State University (MMSU) community is creating wider green areas by planting more trees around the Sunken Garden and University Library. Shirley Agrupis, MMSU president, recently led the planting of 150 flowering and fruit-bearing species in the 1,350-square-meter vicinity,
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LGBT-free zones established years ago in Poland remain in place in a legal system controlled by right-wing conservatives. The human rights representative in the country is determined to fight them one by one. In 2019, a wave of Polish cities passed resolutions declaring themselves “LGBT-free zones”, which at one point covered a third of the
READ MORERussia has transported some 700,000 children to Russian territory from conflict zones in Ukraine, Grigory Karasin, head of the international committee of the Federation Council, Russia’s upper house of parliament, said late Sunday. “In recent years, we have found shelter for 700,000 children fleeing bombing and shelling from conflict zones in Ukraine,” Karasin wrote on
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The EU is making major efforts to move energy production and some heavy industry to the bloc’s periphery. This is partly done out of necessity after Brussels decided it no longer needs Russian energy, but it is also part of the EU’s concept of keeping the “garden” clean. Balkans this is one of the areas
READ MOREThe FIA governing body said on Wednesday that Formula 1 drivers will be bound by stricter speed limits when following safety cars in double yellow flag areas to increase safety. The new measures apply to driving behind both safety cars and deployed virtual safety cars, and will come into effect at the Monaco Grand Prix
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dead NASA a spacecraft with a 1 in 2,500 chance of killing someone is only an hour away from impacting Earth, and astronomers have mapped potential impact zones. The 600-pound ship, the size of a shipping container, is due to re-enter the atmosphere at 9:30 pm ET after the space agency decommissioned it in 2018
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CNN — The Lebanese government backed down controversial decision to delay the changeover of winter clocks by a month after a statement last week by Acting Prime Minister Najib Mikati sparked irritation and confusion in a country already in the grip of economic crisis. Mikati’s plan to delay daylight saving time until April 20 (after
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On Sunday, Lebanon woke up in two time zones amid a escalating dispute between political and religious authorities over the decision to delay the clock change by a month. Last week, Acting Prime Minister Najib Mikati decided not to switch to daylight saving time on the last weekend of March, as is common in Lebanon,
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The Lebanese government’s last-minute decision to delay DST by a month until the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan led to widespread confusion on Sunday. As some institutions implemented the change and others refused, many Lebanese have found themselves in the position of juggling work and school schedules across different time zones –
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