Iran says 'No Threat Will Be Left Unanswered' as US Response to Jordan Attack Looms (thecradle.co)
Saudi Arabia, UAE, Ethiopia, Iran, Egypt confirmed they are joining BRICS (www.middleeastmonitor.com)
South Africa says Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates confirm they are joining BRICS (www.reuters.com)
UAE Completes First Cross-Border Digital Dirham CDBC Payment Worth $13.6M to China (finance.yahoo.com)
‘We are dying slowly:’ Palestinians are eating grass and drinking polluted water as famine looms across Gaza (edition.cnn.com)
Burkina Faso thanks Russia for 'priceless gift' of wheat (www.bbc.com)
Israeli Gov't Press Office Hosts Evangelical Leader Who Calls for Bombing Iran (www.haaretz.com)
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U.S. F-16 Crashes off South Korea, Again (time.com)
Palestinian says Israeli soldiers used him as human shield in West Bank (www.reuters.com)
UN Warns of Possible Aid System Collapse in Gaza if Funding for UNRWA is Withheld by Israel (newshint.in)
President Biden holds country supplying weapons responsible for casualties inflicted by those weapons (www.whitehouse.gov)
Ukraine’s Democracy in Darkness (www.newyorker.com)
Why Defense Contractors Are Saying No to Their Biggest Customer: The Pentagon (www.wsj.com)
How war destroyed Gaza’s neighbourhoods – visual investigation (www.theguardian.com)
Satellite imagery and open-source evidence lay bare the destruction to civilian infrastructure by Israel in its war on Hamas
IMF raises Russia growth outlook as war boosts economy (www.ft.com)
China's Xi receives Taliban administration's 1st ambassadors to Beijing (www.aa.com.tr)
Korean President Yoon sits idly by as Japan tears down memorial to Korean forced laborers (english.hani.co.kr)
Chinese OEM unveils the world's longest onshore wind turbine blades (www.notebookcheck.net)
Durability is the chief concern for wind turbines, and it becomes increasingly difficult with the size and scale of the blades. Courtesy of a thicker airfoil, a reinforced carbon fiber main beam and a metal mesh for lightning protection, Sany’s SY310A blades are built to last. And although they aren’t 100% recyclable, the...
Cosin begins heliostat assembly for 2 of 3 100MW Xinjiang tower CSP projects (www.solarpaces.org)
The project, located in Qiketai Town, Shanshan County, Turpan City, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, is invested by State Power Investment Corporation Henan Electric Power Co., LTD, with a total installed capacity of 1GW including 900MW PV and 100MW CT CSP. The 100MW CT CSP, with an 8-hour molten salt storage system, chose the...
French move to make abortion a ‘guaranteed freedom’ gains big win in lower house (www.theguardian.com)
Use of Coal-Fired Power Plants Increases amid Transition to Green Energy (hungarytoday.hu)
It is necessary to find cost-effective ways to replace coal with renewables or to be able to use coal and lignite in a climate-friendly way (clean coal technologies, methanol economy, carbon capture, storage, and recycling) to make decarbonization not only an alternative for rich countries, but a truly global option.