A UN agency has given Zambia and Zimbabwe permission to build a $5 billion hydropower dam downstream from Victoria Falls, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, according to the authority overseeing its construction. Environmentalists have protested the 2,400-megawatt Batoka Gorge project, which is located 47 kilometers from the world’s largest waterfall, saying it would have a […]
Egypt’s interim Prime Minister Hazem el-Beblawi put off the date for the constitution referendum to the second half of January next year, rather than next month as planned before. The delay in referendum comes just a day after public protests had been banned. The new constitution is currently being drafted and the nationwide referendum is […]
The Speaker of the Romanian Senate has called off his trip to Morocco at the demand of the Speaker of the North African country’s parliament on the backdrop of the Romanian Prime Minister’s recent decision to transfer the embassy of the European country in Israel to Jerusalem. Călin Popescu Tăriceanu was scheduled to visit the […]
