United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. LEHTIKUVA / AFP
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Sunday called on the international community to "build a shared future for all life."
"Biodiversity is essential for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, ending the existential threat of climate change, halting land degradation, building food security and supporting advances in human health,"
Pox virus, illustration. (Photo by Roger Harris / Science Photo Libra / RHR / Science Photo Library via AFP)
Belgium has become the first country to make the 21-day quarantine compulsory for the monkeypox patients after four cases of the disease have been reported last week.
The Belgian health authorities took this decision on Friday, Saudi Gazette reported citing Belgian media.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen delivers a statement on the Commission's proposals on the topic of "REPowerEU, defence investment gaps and the relief reconstruction of Ukraine" at the EU headquarters in Brussels on May 18, 2022. LEHTIKUVA / AFP
Ukraine has received the second tranche of 600 million euros (634 million U.S. dollars) of the European Union's (EU's) emergency macro-financial assistance program, the Ukrainian Finance Ministry said Friday.
"The funds will be used to maintain financial stability in Ukraine during the war," the ministry said in a statement.
Passenger passing through the thermal monitor shows the body temperature at international arrival gate of Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, Tangerang, Banten priovince, on Wednesday, May 15, 2019. (Photo by Aditya Irawan / NurPhoto / NurPhoto via AFP)
The World Health Organization (WHO) has decided to convene an emergency meeting of experts to discuss the latest outbreak of monkeypox in wake of rapidly rising cases, according to Russian media.
The meeting's agenda is believed to be the ways of the virus' transmission, its high prevalence in gays and bisexual men,
The Gasum gas station in Imatra.
The Russian gas to Finland under Gasum's supply contract has been cut off, the company said on Saturday.
"Natural gas supplies to Finland under Gasum's supply contract have been cut off. starting today, during the upcoming summer season, Gasum will supply natural gas to its customers from other sources through the Balticconnector pipeline.
President of Finland Sauli Niinistö (left), U. S. President Joe Biden and Prime Minister of Sweden Magdalena Andersson during press conference at the Rose Garden in White House in Washington D.C. Thursday, May 19, 2022.
US President Joe Biden said on Wednesday that he will work with Finland and Sweden to remain vigilant against any threats to their security as NATO is considering their membership bids.
According to a study by a team of Potsdam scientists, global food system needs to be transformed in order to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The group led by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) used a quantitative food and land system model to gauge the effects of degrowth and efficiency proposals on the food sector's greenhouse gas emissions.
Russian President Vladimir Putin gives a speech during the Victory Day military parade at Red Square in central Moscow on May 9, 2022. - Russia celebrates the 77th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany during World War II. LEHTIKUVA / AFP
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday defended the country's military action in Ukraine in his speech at a Victory Day parade on Moscow's Red Square on Monday. Speaking at the Red Square marking the defeat of Nazi Germany, he said, "We (Russia) will never give up our love for the country, faith, traditional values, ancestral customs and respect for all peoples and cultures. As for the West, it seems to be determined to cancel these millennia-old values."
A NATO ship visiting in Turku on 25th of April 2022.
Finland's and Sweden's possible accession into NATO would be detrimental to their security and that of Europe, Russian Ambassador to Canada Oleg Stepanov told Sputnik.
"Finland and Sweden will be put in a position where they are forced to treat Russia as an adversary.
A employee works near gas pipes at the gas compressor station of Bulgartransgaz in Ihtiman, on May 5, 2022, a week after the halt of Russian gas supply to Bulgaria. LEHTIKUVA / AFP
Russian gas deliveries to Europe can be entirely redirected to the Asia-Pacific region where gas demand is rising, but it would require prompt infrastructure modernization, an energy expert at the Russian company Vygon Consulting, Ivan Timonin, told Sputnik on Sunday.
Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson (L) and Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin speak to the media prior to a meeting on whether to seek NATO membership, in Stockholm, Sweden, on April 13, 2022. LEHTIKUVA / AFP
Former NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen says that the time for Sweden and Finland to join the military alliance is now, while Russian President Vladimir Putin is "preoccupied" with Ukraine.
