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Bonn Climate Change Conference next week to set tone for COP27
The upcoming Bonn Climate Change Conference is set to kick off next week at the World Convention Center in Bonn, Germany, and is designed to prepare for the UN Climate Change Conference COP27 which is scheduled for November this year in Egypt.
First charter flights to Sharm El-Sheikh from Sibiu Airport to take off in April
For the first time, charter flights to Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, will take off from the Sibiu International Airport this April, according to a press statement released by the airport on Thursday. The flights that will be operated in partnership with the Cocktail Holidays tour operator and EgyptAir will depart every Saturday, between April 3 - May 8, 2021.
President Iohannis: Romania strongly opposes all forms of terrorism and violent extremism
AGERPRES special correspondent Florentina Peia reports: Cooperation between the EU and the League of Arab States is vital in the fight against terrorism, President Klaus Iohannis said, underscoring that Romania strongly opposes all forms of terrorism and violent extremism.
President Iohannis to meet Egyptian counterpart
Romania's President Klaus Iohannis will hold consultations with his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah El-Sisi on the side-lines of the EU-League of Arab States Summit, to be held in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, on Saturday, the Romanian Presidential Administration reports.
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Nobel laureate Aziz Sancar receives his award
Turkish scientist Aziz Sancar, the 2015 Nobel laureate in chemistry, received his prize at a ceremony held in Stockholm, on a day that Tunisia's National Dialogue Quartet were also presented their Nobel Peace Prizes in Oslo.
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Russian plane crash was an act of terror: 2 Egyptian airport employees being held
Russian Security Service (FSB) head Alexander Bortnikov said that the explosion of a homemade bomb of up to 1kg of TNT equivalent was the cause of the crash of the Kogalymavia flight 9268 A321 airbus over Sinai, Egypt, while en route from Sharm El-Sheikh to St. Petersburg on October 31.
A quagmire for everyone
As predicted, Russia started to feel the ugly face of the Syrian quandary. After a flashy entrance, Russian forces are settling in for a long haul and Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) affiliates are biting them.
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Sinai plane crash: Mysteries remain as victim’s bodies travel to St. Petersburg (pics + vids)
The Kogalymavia-operated Airbus A321 (Flight 9268) fyling from Sharm el-Sheikh to St. Petersburg disappeared from radar screens at 6.14 a.m. It crashed near the town of Hasna in the north of the Sinai Peninsula with no survivors among the 224 passengers and crew members, aged from 10 months old to 22 years.
ISIL claims responsibility for Russian plane crash in Egypt
A militant group affiliated to Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Egypt claimed responsibility for the downing of a Russian passenger plane that crashed in Egypt's Sinai peninsula on Oct. 31, the group said in a statement circulated by supporters on Twitter.
Wreckage found as Russian passenger plane crashes in Sinai
A Russian passenger plane carrying 224 people crashed on Oct. 31 in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, Egyptian officials said.
A "Russian civilian plane... crashed in the central Sinai," the office of Prime Minister Sharif Ismail said in a statement.
A cabinet statement said Egyptian military planes have spotted wreckage of the plane.