Europe's efforts to build up its battery-making capacity got a major boost Friday as Sweden's Northvolt and Taiwan's ProLogium announced projects to build factories in Germany and France. . So the announcement by battery-maker Northvolt on Friday that it would go ahead with building a multi-billion-euro plant in northern Germany, after months of uncertainty, came as a major boost.
A state-imposed social media blackout to quell massive protests around the arrest of Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan has instead fuelled momentum for him, analysts say. . But internet and social media use has exploded in Pakistan in recent years, fuelled by the widespread availability of cheap smartphones.
Dozens of Russian nationals continue to work at the Council of Europe more than a year after Russia was expelled, posing a diplomatic headache for the human rights organisation, according to diplomats at the Strasbourg-based body.. Insiders say more than 40 Russian nationals still work at the Council of Europe, down from 90 at the start of the year.
Thousands flocked to cinemas in Dhaka on Friday as Shah Rukh Khan's blockbuster "Pathaan" hit the big screens, the first Bollywood movie to get a full release in Bangladesh in more than half a century.. "I was waiting for many days to watch Shah Rukh Khan on a big screen." mma-sa/slb/dva
An international body said it had suspended its certification for two major global tea companies after an investigation into a sexual abuse scandal in Kenya.. The alliance -- one of the major certification bodies for sustainable development products -- said it had launched an investigation after a BBC documentary in February highlighted claims of widespread sexual abuse on tea estates in Kenya, one of the world's biggest tea exporters.
Israel and Gaza militants traded heavy fired Friday as hopes faded of securing a truce to end days of fighting that have killed dozens, all but one of them Palestinian.. Israel said a quarter of the rockets fell inside Gaza and killed four, including three children, an accusation Islamic Jihad and Hamas did not respond to when approached by AFP. This week's escalation is the worst since August, when 49 Gazans were killed in three days of fighting between Islamic Jihad and Israel.
After months of an unusually acrimonious leadership battle, the International Organization for Migration next week holds elections to decide whether its current chief or his next-in-command will steer the UN agency for the next four years.. The swelling importance of IOM as migration and displacement numbers soar, including due to climate change, "makes it all the more salient to the United States to try to reassert this kind of traditional hold on the helm of the organisation", she said.
Rules that have allowed US border guards to summarily expel hundreds of thousands of would-be asylum seekers over the last three years expired early Friday, setting up an uncertain future for migrants and inflaming America's always-churning immigration debate.. But how things will play out in practice remains unclear, and the situation has already roiled America's heated immigration debate.
Tired of Shanghai club nights dominated by men, where a woman's appearance often matters as much as her musical skills, Eloise Fan has created an underground space where women DJs are free to shine.. Even in more liberal circles, Fan often felt objectified in the clubs where she and her friends cut their teeth as DJs. "Men can put on a t-shirt, sweatshirt and shorts and be a DJ, but women (are expected to) put on thick make-up, and dress up so they look sexy and beautiful," she told AFP. "One of the artists from our label told me she had previously been asked for her body measurements for a show."
The clip lasted 14 seconds, presented by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as proof that his rival in Sunday's election was running "hand in hand" with outlawed Kurdish militants.. Running neck-and-neck with Erdogan, Kilicdaroglu claims that "foreign hackers" recruited by Erdogan's team are preparing deepfakes -- manipulated videos and soundbites -- aimed at discrediting rivals days before the election.
