Brian Harrison, 57, is secretary general of Salvar La Tejita, a group calling for curbs on the number of visitors to the Canaries.

[ANGOP] Luanda -- The Angolan Sovereign Fund (FSDEA) reached a historic milestone by achieving net results of US$199.35 million in 2023, recording a growth of 201% compared to the previous year.

[Nile Post] A three-day military engagement between Rwanda and Uganda concluded at Les Vegas Gardens Hotel in Mbarara City, with both sides committing to enhancing cooperation.

Residents who live near a former landfill site feel 'like prisoners' in their own homes due to regular fires. An alleged 'health crisis' is unfolding in parts of Essex.

[IFAD] Kigali/Rome -- With adaptation finance needs estimated at about US$ 50 billion a year for Sub-Saharan Africa, the UN's International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the Government of Rwanda are playing their part by launching the Rwanda Dairy Development Project (RDDP) phase II.

[Liberian Investigator] Kinshasa -- Liberia's Director-General of the National Public Health Institute (NPHIL), Dr. Dougbeh Christopher Nyan, is in Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of Congo at an emergency conference of scientists and public health experts from Africa to discuss the current trend of the outbreak of Mpox (Monkeypox) in Africa.

SINGAPORE - Five thrilling days of competition ended with another brave performance and a silver lining for Singaporean boccia player Jeralyn Tan. Despite a dramatic 5-4 defeat by Frenchwoman Aurelia Aubert in the women’s individual BC1 final on Sept 2, Jeralyn Tan still managed to claim a historic Paralympic silver for Singapore. In doing so, the 35-year-old debutante became only the Republic’s fourth Paralympic medallist after swimmers Yip Pin Xiu and Theresa Goh, and equestrienne Laurentia Tan. Yip won two golds at these Games, taking her tally to seven, while Laurentia will compete from Sept 3. Jeralyn’s silver from Paris will see her collect $300,000 as part of the Singapore National Paralympic Council’s Athletes Achievement Awards scheme. In 2022, the cash incentive for a Paralympic silver medal was raised from $200,000 to $300,000 for the Paris Games. Boccia means “to bowl” in Italian. The aim of the game, played by wheelchair-using athletes with motor-skill impairment, is to bowl balls as close as possible to a white target ball known as the jack.

A forthcoming new bachelor's degree in traditional Chinese medicine marks a major step in its recognition in Canada, proponents say, and comes amid a growing international spotlight on traditional medicine. However, skeptics of TCM and other alternative approaches remain wary.  

Toronto lawyers Nicholas Cartel and Singa Bui, accused of embezzling nearly $7 million from real estate clients, have been found in contempt of court for failing to answer questions about where the money went.

The unions on Sunday announced the strike which has today fallen into action - leaving Israel facing mass disruptions and closures, including at its international airport.

Russia's emergencies ministry said the bodies of 17 people have been found and that rescuers were continuing to search for the remaining occupants.

Paedophile Jacky Jhaj has been behind a bizarre series of the stunts - the latest being a BBC lorry explosion which caused chaos alongside the Thames in London.

From today, all new school inspections will no longer brand them 'outstanding', 'good', 'requires improvement' or 'inadequate' as per a Government ruling.

According to the website Down Detector, around 630 customers have reported having issues with online and mobile banking, since around 7am today.

Tory hopefuls are stepping up their campaigns with MPs set to whittle the field down from half a dozen to four over the next fortnight.

Paedophile Jacky Jhaj has been behind a bizarre series of the stunts - the latest being a BBC lorry explosion which caused chaos alongside the Thames in London.

With the Kazakhstan player losing the first-set and going 4-2 down in the second, there was an ugly moment when a ball girl attempted to throw balls towards her before she took serve.

The pair on the yacht, which is about 185km east of Nowra, on the NSW south coast, made emergency contact at 12.40pm on Monday.

Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) won a multi-billion-pound UK High Court claim against Mike Lynch in 2022, accusing him of fraud over its £8billion purchase of his firm Autonomy in 2011.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has aggressively filed charges accusing volunteers, candidates and voters of election fraud. But the cases rarely go to trial.

[This Day] The mass trial of #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria protesters is scheduled to commence today, September 2, 2024 in Abuja, Kano, Kaduna and Borno courts.

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The Kenyan-led Multinational Security Support Mission (MSS) in Haiti has urged the gangs operating in the Caribbean nation to lay down their weapons and surrender as it rolls out operations in neighborhoods of Haiti Capital, Port Au Prince.

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European Union lawmakers signed the artificial intelligence (AI) act in June 2024. The AI act, the first binding worldwide horizontal regulation on AI, sets a common framework for the use and supply of AI systems in the EU. The new act offers a classification for AI systems with different requirements and obligations tailored to a 'risk-based approach'. Some AI systems presenting 'unacceptable' risks are prohibited. A wide range of 'high-risk' AI systems that can have a detrimental impact on people's health, safety or on their fundamental rights are authorised, but subject to a set of requirements and obligations to gain access to the EU market. AI systems posing limited risks because of their lack of transparency will be subject to information and transparency requirements, while AI systems presenting only minimal risk for people will not be subject to further obligations. The regulation also lays down specific rules for general purpose AI (GPAI) models and lays down more stringent requirements for GPAI models with 'high-impact capabilities' that could pose a systemic risk and have a significant impact on the internal market. The AI Act was published in the EU's Official Journal on 12 July 2024. It entered into force in August 2024. Fourth edition. 'EU Legislation in Progress' briefings are updated at key stages of the legislative procedure. Source : © European Union, 2024 - EP

Within the policy framework of the European Green Deal, the European Climate Law of 2021 has set an EU-wide, legally binding target of 'climate neutrality' or net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050. To achieve this target, the European Climate Law also enshrines the intermediate climate target of reducing EU net GHG emissions by at least 55 % by 2030, compared to 1990 levels. Following the adoption of the Climate Law and most of the 'fit for 55' legislative revisions, Member States had to update their national energy and climate plans (NECPs) in line with the increased energy and climate objectives by 30 June 2024. Ahead of this deadline, the Commission called on Member States to step up their efforts, as the contributions noted in the draft NECPs were not yet sufficient to deliver the 2030 target and would lead to a net reduction of only 51 %. The 2030 EU Climate Law target is binding at EU level. Its achievement, however, depends on the success of plans and measures at national level, across a range of policy areas. To explore the potential enforceability of the net 55 % EU-wide emission reduction target, this briefing examines the enforcement mechanisms of five legislative acts that form the core of the European climate and energy acquis and will be essential for delivering the European Climate Law's 2030 target. The briefing looks at the enforcement specificities of the nationally binding targets of key climate legislation, including various procedural obligations under the Governance Regulation. Ultimately, nationally binding targets can be enforced by the Commission through the overarching infringement procedure of the EU Treaties. In the case of binding EU-wide targets, however, the situation becomes more complex. Source : © European Union, 2024 - EP

The arrival of refugees and irregular migrants in the EU in unprecedented numbers in 2015 exposed a number of deficiencies in the EU's external border, asylum and migration policy, and sparked EU action through various legal and policy instruments. Today, even though the EU has been relatively successful in securing its external borders, curbing irregular migrant arrivals and increasing cooperation with third countries, Member States are still reluctant to show solidarity and do more to share responsibility for asylum-seekers. Turmoil in Africa and the Middle East, followed by the war in Ukraine and the armed conflict in the Gaza Strip are forcing more and more people to flee violence and seek a safe haven in Europe. At times spontaneously, Member States have reacted to these crises and showed open solidarity, as with regard to the Ukrainian citizens fleeing the war. At other times their reaction has been more ambivalent: take for instance the ripples of discord caused by the disembarkation in November 2022 of migrants rescued from the Mediterranean by four private vessels, which once again clearly demonstrated the need for a more stable and predictable mechanism to manage irregular migration. International cooperation and solidarity are key in helping to manage migration to and between states. Under international law, states have certain legal obligations to assist and protect the refugees they accept on their territory, but the legal duties of other states, as regards providing help and sharing that responsibility, are less clearly codified. At EU level, the principle of solidarity is set out in several articles, including Article 80 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU). However, EU law does not define the notions of 'solidarity' or 'fair sharing of responsibilities' for refugees or asylum-seekers. This has prompted EU institutions, academics and other stakeholders to propose different ways to render solidarity more operational; these include sharing out relevant tasks and pooling resources at EU level, and providing financial and other forms of compensation for frontline Member States. The migration and asylum pact adopted in spring 2024 sets out a new flexible but mandatory solidarity system. This updates and expands on a January 2023 briefing by the same authors. Source : © European Union, 2024 - EP

Mongolia is a geographically remote and resource-rich country with a peculiar location in northeast Asia. An 'oasis of democracy', it is sandwiched between its two expansionist authoritarian neighbours, China and Russia. This has required it to walk a delicate geopolitical tightrope of non alignment and a 'third neighbour' foreign policy to preserve its sovereignty and independence. During the past 35 years of bilateral diplomatic relations Mongolia has not been particularly high on the EU's foreign policy agenda, with only a handful of EU Member States having an embassy there. Since the 1990s, Mongolia has nonetheless benefited from EU development cooperation programmes aimed at supporting its sustainable economic and democratic development and from EU disaster relief for the increasingly harsh socioeconomic implications of its exposure to climate change. Classified as a lower-middle income country, Mongolia has also been a beneficiary of unilateral preferential access to the EU market, first under the generalised scheme of preferences (GSP) and later under the GSP+ scheme, and has been able to draw on additional EU funding programmes to bolster the diversification of its trade towards non-mining products. Currently, an EU-Mongolia agreement on geographical indications is under negotiation with the same objective. The EU-Mongolia political and cooperation agreement (PCA), which entered into force in 2017, has significantly broadened the scope for bilateral, regional and international cooperation to policy areas that were previously not covered by the 1993 trade and economic cooperation agreement. Joint Committee meetings under the PCA have taken place regularly, with strands on political dialogue, human rights, trade and investment, and development cooperation. EU reliance on resilient supply chains for critical raw materials (CRMs) to implement its green and digital transitions and Mongolian efforts to sustainably diversify its economic relations could draw the two partners closer. As the scramble for CRMs is in full swing and major CRM-importing countries have designed economic de-risking policies to find alternatives to China's current quasi export monopoly on processed CRMs such as rare earths, the EU and Mongolia could enter into a CRM partnership, despite the geographical and geopolitical constraints and concerns that may arise over the environment and the investment climate owing to increased sourcing of CRMs from Mongolia. Source : © European Union, 2024 - EP

A 38-year-old woman and a 41-year-old man were arrested for suspected drugs activities during a raid last Friday (Aug 30). The raid took place at a residential unit in the vicinity of Bedok North Avenue 4, the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) said in a media statement on Sept 2.  A total of about 2.8kg of heroin, 385g of ‘Ice’, 51g of ‘Ecstasy’, 24g of cannabis, 9g of ketamine and 13 Emirin-5 tablets were seized.  The drugs, valued at an estimated $343,000, can feed the addiction of about 1,550 drug abusers for a week.  If found guilty of trafficking more than 15g of diamorphine or ‘pure heroin’, the pair may face the mandatory death penalty. Drug situation in Singapore According to the 2023 drug situation report released in March 2024, methamphetamine, heroin, and cannabis were the three most commonly abused drugs, with 94 per cent of those arrested abusing at least one of these three drugs. CNB reportedly seized some $15.37 million worth of drugs in 2023, a slight drop from the $16.66 million in 2022.  

Cairo dismisses Ethiopia's 'unilateral policies' on Gerd project, claiming they threaten regional stability

In the dusty, war-ravaged outskirts of North Darfur, a mother at the Zamzam camp cradles her emaciated child, her eyes hollow with exhaustion and fear. Fatima, a 32-year-old widow, once led a simple but stable life, selling groceries at a local market in El Fasher, the besieged capital of her homeland.

Mogadishu (HOL) — Former Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo has condemned the federal government's reported decision to hand over the management of Somalia's airspace to a United Arab Emirates (UAE)-based company, NAV-PASS.

Over the reporting period, Russian troops destroyed eight Ukrainian tanks, including Abrams and Leopard

According to Russia’s consumer watchdog, the amount of harmful substances in the air does not exceed normal levels and no one has to be evacuated

Ulziibayaryn Zolbayar urged the public to treat any information with caution, check its reliability and trust only official sources