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Berlin, Germany | Xinhua | Germany’s Transport Minister Volker Wissing has expressed reservations regarding a planned ban on new cars with internal combustion engines in the European Union (EU) from 2035. A member of the Free Democratic Party (FDP), Wissing is calling for an exception for internal combustion vehicles fueled by …

Los Angeles, U.S. | Xinhua | The family of late NBA star Kobe Bryant will receive a 28.85 million U.S. dollars settlement from Los Angeles County, in the western U.S. state of California, over the retired NBA star helicopter crash photos. The settlement would resolve all claims involving the county, Mira …

Stockholm, Sweden | Xinhua | The largest nuclear reactor in Sweden will be taken off the grid for eight days due to a damaged fuel rod, Dagens Nyheter (DN) newspaper reported on Tuesday. Unit 3 at the Oskarshamn nuclear power plant in the southeast of the country will be disconnected …

Los Angeles, U.S. | Xinhua | A new study has found that apremilast, a drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of psoriasis, cuts alcohol intake by more than half in people with severe alcohol use disorder (AUD). The drug was known to block a molecule …

Tehran, Iran | Xinhua | Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian on Tuesday blamed the U.S. “miscalculation and wrong policy” for causing the current stalemate on the revival of a 2015 nuclear deal. Amir-Abdollahian made the remarks in an address to the High-Level Segment of the Conference on Disarmament in the Swiss …

Mexico city, Mexico | Xinhua | Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Tuesday accused the U.S. State Department of “interfering” in the internal affairs of other countries. “There is currently more democracy in Mexico than in the United States,” the Mexican president said at his regular daily press conference. On …

Moscow, Russia | Xinhua | Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday signed a law officially suspending Russia’s participation in the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) with the United States. The law comes into force immediately and the decision to resume Russia’s participation in the treaty is up to the …

Rome, Italy | Xinhua | Purchasing power in Italy fell by 54 percent over the last year, as high inflation, reduced trade and slower economic growth caused in part by the Russia-Ukraine crisis took their toll on the daily life of Italians, according to a new report published by Italian think-tank …

Geneva, Switzerland | Xinhua | United Nations (UN) human rights chief Volker Turk on Monday deplored the weaponization of human rights in the context of geopolitical shifts. Turk, who took office as the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights last October, was speaking at the opening of the 52nd regular session …

Doha, Qatar | Xinhua | The U.S. response to a Chinese weather balloon ignores its own track record of “global surveillance and bombing,” said an opinion piece published on the website of Al Jazeera. The U.S. shooting down the Chinese weather balloon in its airspace is a “bizarre military stunt” that …