United Nations chief Antonio Guterres urged countries Wednesday to agree a "robust and ambitious" treaty to protect the high seas, as time starts to run out for negotiators. . The high seas begin at the border of countries' exclusive economic zones, which extend up to 200 nautical miles (370 kilometers) from coastlines.
Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo on Wednesday urged Iran's president to "immediately" set free an aid worker held by Tehran in a case denounced as hostage diplomacy.. His backers and rights groups say he is being held as part of Iran's "hostage diplomacy" to try to get Belgium to release an Iranian diplomat incarcerated for terrorism.
Survivors of a shipwreck off southern Italy wept over their dead Wednesday, as relatives of some of the 67 people who drowned arrived from other countries to claim their loved ones.. "When I turned on the light of the telephone they were dead on the ground, there were children, above all children," the 50-year-old told AFP. He and others were pulling them out of the water, while desperate survivors of the shipwreck tried to find their relatives.
An Italian firm contracted by French energy giant TotalEnergies said on Wednesday it was gearing up to resume work on a Mozambique gas project that was halted for security reasons in 2021 as soon as in July.. But sporadic and low-level jihadists attacks continue in part of the province Presenting Saipem's 2022 results during an online call on Tuesday, CEO Alessandro Puliti said the Italian firm expected to "progressively" resume work for TotalEnergies.
Burkina Faso has scrapped a 1961 agreement on military assistance with France, a move that comes only weeks after it told the French ambassador and troops supporting its anti-jihadist campaign to quit the country.. The Burkinabe foreign ministry advised the French government that the country was "renouncing the technical military assistance agreement reached in Paris on April 24 1961", according to the correspondence, dated Tuesday.
When the passenger train from Athens slammed head-on into a freight train from Thessaloniki late on Tuesday night, 22-year-old Angelos was in the penultimate carriage.. The passenger train, carrying over 350 people, had been travelling from the capital Athens to the northern city of Thessaloniki.
Prince Harry and his wife Meghan are being evicted from their home on the British royal family's Windsor estate, leaving them without a UK base, reports said on Wednesday.. Harry and Meghan moved to California in 2020 after dramatically quitting royal life.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday ruled out any delay in elections after the devastating quake that killed tens of thousands in Turkey, saying the vote would push ahead on May 14 as planned.. The quake affected 14 million people in Turkey, and caused tens of thousands of buildings to collapse.
Top US diplomat Antony Blinken was due in New Delhi on Wednesday alongside Russia's Sergei Lavrov for a G20 meeting, with Ukraine and tensions with China set to overshadow attempts by host India to forge unity among the world's top economies.. - Awkward hosts - The Group of Twenty comprises 19 countries and the European Union, representing around 85 percent of the world's economy and two-thirds of its population.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday pressed Uzbekistan's leaders to address human rights as they pursue nascent reforms, on a trip to woo Central Asia amid tensions with Russia. . Blinken "also urged the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the safeguarding of media freedom and transparency," Price said.
