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The price of natural gas in Europe has reached its highest level in over three months due to the conflicts in the Middle East. The benchmark TTF futures contract for delivery in a month's time rose to €33.95 ($36.12) per megawatt hour on the Amsterdam stock exchange on Wednesday. This is the highest price since the beginning of January. Over the past week the price of natural gas has risen by more than 20%, making up for the price decline in the first few months of the year. One reason for the rise is investors' fear of a new war in the Middle East and the potential impact on gas supplies from...
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The "wobbling" of a star has alerted researchers to a particularly enormous black hole in the Milky Way. It is the most massive stellar black hole known to date in our galaxy, the European Southern Observatory (ESO), based near the German city of Munich, announced on Tuesday. The black hole, named Gaia BH3, has about 33 times the mass of our sun. Stellar black holes in the Milky Way measure on average only 10 times the mass of the sun. The previously largest known - Cygnus X-1 - has about 21 solar masses. "No one was expecting to find a high-mass black hole lurking nearby, undetected so far," ...
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The European Union condemned Iran's direct aerial attack on Israel in the "strongest terms" on Sunday. "This is an unprecedented escalation and a threat to regional security," the bloc's chief diplomat Josep Borrell said on behalf of the EU on Sunday. "We call on all parties to exercise utmost restraint." In this highly tense regional situation, further escalation can be in no one's interest, Borrell said in a statement. He also reaffirmed the European Union's commitment to Israel's security. "The EU remains firmly committed to contribute to de-escalation and security in the region and is in c...
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Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan called for de-escalation following Iran's attack on Israel, in a telephone conversation with his Iranian counterpart. Fidan told Iranian Foreign Minister Hussein Amirabdollahian that Turkey did not want any further escalation in the region, state news agency Anadolu reported on Sunday, citing diplomatic circles. Amirabdollahian assured Fidan that Iran would not carry out any further attacks as long as Israel does not launch a counterattack. But if it does, Iran's response would be stronger than before, Tasnim news agency reported. Relations between Israel a...
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned Iran's aerial attack on Israel, saying his country was all too familiar with this form of threat. "We in Ukraine know very well the horror of similar attacks by Russia, which uses the same 'Shahed' drones and Russian missiles, the same tactics of mass airstrikes," he said in a post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, on Sunday. Every effort must be made to avoid further escalation in the Middle East, he said. Iran is a threat to the entire Middle East, just as Russia threatens a larger conflict, Zelensky said. "The obvious collaboratio...
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The European Union's top diplomat has called a meeting of EU foreign ministers for Tuesday, as Iran's unprecedented attack on Israel fuels fears of a wider war in the Middle East. "Our objective is to contribute to de-escalation and security of the region," EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said in a post on X, formerly Twitter, on Sunday. For the first time in the history of the Islamic Republic, Iran directly attacked its arch enemy Israel overnight. The attack was retaliation for the killing of high-ranking Iranian officers in Syria, in a suspected Israeli airstrike earlier this month.
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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has called on all international leaders to show responsibility and restraint following the Iranian attack on Israel. Madrid had "always condemned all forms of violence against the safety and wellbeing of innocent civilians and will continue to do so," he said in a post on X. Madrid has been a sharp critic of Israeli military actions in the Gaza Strip since the October 7 attacks. Sánchez called for lessons to be learned from history and for diplomatic ways to be found to resolve conflict and avoid further escalation. Sánchez recently announced plans to recog...
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At least 15 people are still missing after a boat carrying migrants capsized off the Italian island of Lampedusa, leaving at least nine dead, the Italian coastguard said on Thursday. More than 40 people had been aboard the vessel when it capsized in international waters some 30 nautical miles south-east of Lampedusa, according to the coastguard. Efforts to locate survivors are being hampered by waves up to 2.5 metres high, it said. According to the coastguard, the boat had departed from the Tunisian city of Sfax. Despite a heavy swell, a patrol boat was able to take most of the shipwrecked peo...
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China is profiting from the European Union's climate policy, according to a German lawmaker heading a centre-right European party who spoke out in favour of the combustion engine. It is clear "that the ban on the combustion engine was a serious industrial policy mistake from which China is benefiting," the head of the European People's Party (EPP) group in the European Parliament, Manfred Weber, told the Funke media group newspapers. We want to "remedy this after the European elections," Weber said in reports published on Sunday. He was referring to a decision by EU members last year to ban ne...
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Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen on Monday told a European Parliament Green Party delegation that she looks forward to closer bilateral cooperation in the areas of false information prevention, supply chain security, and business and trade. The pan-European Green Party delegation, led by Reinhard Bütikofer from Germany, who also heads the European Parliament's group for relations with China, started a four-day visit to Taiwan on Monday. Tsai told visiting European delegates that, in the face of the expansion of authoritarianism and the threat of disinformation, Taiwan has strengthened cooperation...
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