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The Public Investment Fund (PIF) on Thursday has completed its first-ever bond issuance — the century green bond — raising $3 billion to finance or refinance PIF’s green investments, in accordance with its Green Finance Framework. PIF green investments include eligible green projects in renewable energy, energy efficiency, sustainable water management, pollution prevention and control, […]

More than a quarter-million Floridians remained without power Wednesday in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian. The tracking website PowerOutage.us recorded over 268,000 customers experiencing power outages in the state as of Wednesday night, including more than 152,000 in Lee County in southwestern Florida. A Lee County official feared some outages could last as long as […]

Several City Council members pushed back Wednesday on Mayor Adams’ plan to house migrants in tents on Randalls Island and instead offered an alternate solution — currently shuttered Manhattan hotels. The counterpoint came from Council Speaker Adrienne Adams, Deputy Speaker Diana Ayala and members of the lawmaking body’s Immigration Committee two days after the mayor […]

A US airborne operation involving multiple helicopters in Syria’s northeastern Hasaka province has killed one person, Syrian state TV reported Thursday. “US occupation forces carried out a landing operation using several helicopters in… the southern countryside of Qamishli and killed one person,” Syrian TV said, without elaborating. When contacted, the US armed forces’ Central Command […]

Australia has planned to halt the loss of any more species and end its status as “the mammal extinction capital of the world”, its government says. More than 100 threatened animals and plants — including iconic species like the koala — will be prioritized under new conservation strategies. The plan includes a promise to protect […]

Australia has planned to halt the loss of any more species and end its status as “the mammal extinction capital of the world”, its government says. More than 100 threatened animals and plants — including iconic species like the koala — will be prioritized under new conservation strategies. The plan includes a promise to protect […]

A Michigan judge has dismissed felony charges Tuesday against seven people in the Flint water scandal, including two former state health officials blamed for deaths from Legionnaires’ disease. The judge’s dismissal was significant but not a complete surprise after the Michigan Supreme Court in June unanimously said a different judge acting as a one-person grand […]

Elon Musk has proposed to move forward with his initial offer of buying Twitter at $54.20 per share after doing whatever he could to back out of his bid to buy Twitter for $44 billion Bloomberg first reported that Twitter received a letter from Musk’s team on Tuesday with the news that the Tesla and […]

New York City will cover the college tuition and housing costs for students in foster care, Mayor Eric Adams announced Tuesday. The new program, called “College Choice,” will provide up to $15,000 a year, after financial aid, to cover remaining tuition costs for city teens in foster care at any college they choose, whether in […]

President Joe Biden told his Ukrainian counterpart on Tuesday that the US would soon announce a new weapons package for Ukraine worth $625 million. In a phone call with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Biden pledged to continue supporting Ukraine as it fends off Russia’s further invasion. Biden said the US aid would continue for “as long as […]

Saudi Arabia has topped the list of Arab countries for tourism arrivals so far in 2022, according to new figures released by the World Tourism Organization. More than 18 million tourists have visited the Kingdom so far this year, statistics showed. It makes Saudi Arabia the most visited country in the Arab world in 2022, […]

The Saudi Music Commission has scheduled a concert at the famous Paris theatre and opera house – Théâtre du Châtelet. The Saudi National Music Band and Choir will perform along with the French Philharmonique Orchestra (The Orchestre Philharmonique) on Friday October 7, 2022. The concert titled “Masterpieces of Saudi Music” is a combined show between […]

A suicide bomber has attacked a tuition centre in the Afghan capital Kabul. According to a report on Friday September 30, 2022, the bomber killed not less than 35 people, including a candidate sitting examination. The United Nations reported that more than 80 others were wounded in the Friday’s attack at the Kaaj education centre […]

By Michael Laitman Hurricane Ian left a trail of devastation that will take weeks to assess, years to repair, and who knows what new adversities will happen in the meantime. According to scientists, climate change likely did not cause Ian, but it did intensify it. Unless we implement far more fundamental instruments of correction, we […]

A company that has received billions of pounds in green energy subsidies from UK taxpayers is cutting down environmentally-important forests, a BBC Panorama investigation has found. Drax runs Britain’s biggest power station, which burns millions of tons of imported wood pellets – which is classed as renewable energy. The BBC has discovered some of the […]

North Korea on Tuesday has fired an intermediate-range ballistic missile over Japan for the first time in five years, forcing Japan to issue evacuation notices and suspend trains, as the North escalates tests of weapons designed to strike regional U.S. allies. It was the most significant missile test by North Korea since January, when it […]

Minister of Commerce and Chairman of the General Authority for Foreign Trade Dr. Majid Abdullah Al-Qasabi, on a four-day official visit, has lead a government delegation to Morocco with the participation of officials from 12 government institutions and representatives from the private sector from over 60 Saudi companies. Al-Qasabi on Monday is scheduled to meet […]

After a two-year pause brought on by the pandemic, New York state officials are restarting their system for identifying struggling schools. In doing so, officials want to begin to “shift the narrative” about how low-performing schools are viewed by the public, state officials said Monday during the Board of Regents meeting. “When we talk about […]

The White House on Monday denounced the crackdown by Iranian security forces against peaceful protests in Iran, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said. “We’re alarmed and appalled by reports of security authorities’ responding to university students’ peaceful protests with violence and mass arrests,” she told reporters traveling with President Joe Biden to Puerto Rico. […]

Saudi Arabia has won its bid to host the 2029 Asian Winter Games (AWG) in NOEM’s TROJENA, the Kingdom’s Minister of Sports Prince Abdulaziz bin Turki al-Faisal announced Tuesday. The announcement came after Prince Abdulaziz, who is also the President of the Saudi Olympic and Paralympic Committee (SOPC), headed a delegation to the General Assembly […]