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COP27
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Climate change
11/7/2022 9:40:54 AM
It was a total loss - the type that is usually glossed over in big impersonal statistics like $40 billion in damage from this summer's Pakistan floods that put one-third of the nation underwater.
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COP27
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Sharm El-Sheikh
11/7/2022 9:31:00 AM
Ahram Online is providing daily live update coverage of the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP27) taking place in the Egyptian Red Sea city of Sharm El-Sheikh from 6-18 November.
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World
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War in Ukraine
11/6/2022 9:11:33 PM
Ukraine's Russian-occupied city of Kherson was cut off from water and electricity supplies Sunday after an air strike and a key dam in the region was also damaged, local officials said.
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COP27
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Sharm El-Sheikh
11/6/2022 12:33:35 PM
Country members agreed early Sunday morning to discuss for the first time funding arrangements on loss and damage during the UN Climate Change Conference (COP27) being held in the Red Sea city of Sharm El-Sheikh 6-18 November.
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World
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War in Ukraine
11/3/2022 2:20:20 PM
Ukraine's nuclear state operator said Thursday that Russia has shelled and damaged power lines connecting Europe's largest nuclear power plant to the Ukrainian grid, leaving the plant reliant on diesel generators again.
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COP27
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To Know
11/2/2022 3:25:47 PM
You may be hearing the phrase “loss and damage” in the coming weeks as government leaders meet in Egypt for the 2022 U.N. Climate Change Conference.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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COP27
11/1/2022 10:13:56 PM
More than 90 heads of state, some 30,000 people representing governments, businesses, NGOs, civil society groups and CEOs, will meet from 6 to 18 November in the Egyptian resort city of Sharm El-Sheikh to participate in the world’s biggest and most important annual climate-related conference.
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COP27
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Climate change
10/26/2022 12:54:53 PM
Mahmoud Mohieldin, the UN Climate Change High Level Champion for Egypt and UN Special Envoy on Financing 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, stressed the importance of the role played by non-state actors in providing solutions for advancing climate action.
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COP27
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Climate change
10/23/2022 7:50:53 PM
Climate protesters threw mashed potatoes at a Claude Monet painting in a German museum to protest fossil fuel extraction on Sunday, and it was unclear whether the demonstration caused long-term damage to the artwork.
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World
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War in Ukraine
10/18/2022 1:32:43 PM
Danish officials on Tuesday confirmed that there has been ``extensive damage'' to the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea off Denmark and that the cause of the damage was ``powerful explosions.''
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World
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War in Ukraine
10/15/2022 2:34:05 PM
A missile strike seriously damaged a key energy facility in Ukraine's capital region, the country's power system operator said Saturday as the Russian military strove to cut water and electricity in populated areas.
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World
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War in Ukraine
10/13/2022 5:40:18 PM
Russian forces attacked Ukraine's Kyiv and Odesa regions with Iranian-made drones and used missiles to strike other areas Thursday, Ukrainian officials said as Moscow punished the country for a fourth day after a truck bomb damaged a bridge to the annexed Crimean Peninsula.
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COP27
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Focus
10/8/2022 5:31:27 PM
Germany wants the question of loss and damage due to global warming to be discussed at this year's United Nations climate talks, Germany's foreign minister said Friday.
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World
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War in Ukraine
10/8/2022 1:14:16 PM
Ukrainian officials mocked Russia on Saturday, without directly claiming responsibility after a vehicle bomb damaged a key bridge built as Moscow's sole land link with annexed Crimea.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
10/8/2022 10:22:34 AM
Moscow announced Saturday that a truck explosion ignited a huge fire and severely damaged the key Kerch bridge -- built as Russia's sole land link with annexed Crimea -- and vowed to find the perpetrators without immediately blaming Ukraine.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
10/4/2022 11:20:56 PM
As the convening of COP27 draws closer, Egypt is stressing the importance of developing mechanisms to ensure developing countries are compensated for the damage they suffer due to climate change.
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World
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International
10/3/2022 2:25:01 PM
Poland's foreign minister on Monday signed an official note to Germany requesting the payment of some $1.3 trillion in reparations for the damage incurred by occupying Nazi Germans during World War II.
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Egypt
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Society
10/2/2022 11:58:20 AM
An earthquake measuring 5.26 on the Richter scale hit Sunday south of the Mediterranean Greek island of Crete, approximately 430 kilometres north of Egypt’s Marsa Matrouh, the National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics (NRIAG) announced.
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World
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International
9/29/2022 8:00:00 PM
The NATO military alliance warned Thursday it would retaliate for any attacks on the critical infrastructure of its 30 member countries and joined other Western officials in citing sabotage as the likely cause of damage to two natural gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea.
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Sports
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World
9/29/2022 1:52:48 PM
Arsenal midfielder Emile Smith Rowe has undergone surgery to repair a damaged tendon in his groin and will not play again before December, the club said Thursday.
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