Europe

01 Nov 2021; MEMO: The European Union will not label Lebanese Hezbollah as a terrorist organisation, Israeli newspaper Jerusalem Post reported.

EU spokesperson for foreign policy, Peter Stano, said: "The military wing of Hezbollah is already on EU terror list."

"Any changes in the nature and scope of the existing listing are for EU Member States to discuss and decide," Stano said.

MOSCOW, October 31. /TASS/: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has no meetings with members of the US delegation on his schedule of the G20 summit in Rome, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s official spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, said on Saturday.

"Our US colleagues are not mentioned in the schedule," she told the Soloviev Live YouTube channel.

Zakharova added that on Sunday, Lavrov is scheduled to meet with Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio and participate in G20 events.

MOSCOW, October 30. /TASS/: European consumers’ applications for supplies of Russian gas are being fulfilled in full, Russia’s energy giant Gazprom said in a statement amid reports that pumping via the Yamal-Europe pipeline had been stopped.

"Fluctuations in demand for Russian gas depends on the buyers’ existing needs," Gazprom said.

ROME, October 31. /TASS/: World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Sunday that he had met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at the G20 summit in Rome and agreed with him on the need to strengthen the global healthcare system and the WHO’s key role.

"Met Sergey Lavrov, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia, at the G20 Rome Summit and agreed we must strengthen the health architecture, including the WHO’s key role, to prevent health threats," Ghebreyesus twitted.

NOVO-OGARYOVO, October 31. /TASS/: Global warming is unfolding in Russia faster than in the world and the average air temperature in the country has grown by a half-degree in the past decade, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a G20 summit via a videoconference on Sunday.

"Let me note that the average annual air temperature in Russia is growing faster than in the world by more than 2.5 times. Over ten years, it has grown by more than a half-degree," the Russian leader said.

MOSCOW, Oct 31 (NNN-TASS) – Russia’s Black Sea Fleet is tracking the movement of U.S. guided-missile destroyer, USS Porter, that entered the Black Sea yesterday, said the Russian Defence Ministry.

The U.S. Sixth Fleet tweeted on Friday that, USS Porter began its northbound transit to the Black Sea to operate with North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) allies and partners, in the region.

LONDON, Oct 31 (NNN-XINHUA) – China is committed to developing clean and low-carbon energy, Chinese Ambassador to Britain, Zheng Zeguang said, ahead of the 26th United Nations Conference of Parties on Climate Change (COP26), in Glasgow, Scotland.

As the world’s biggest producer and consumer of energy, China is carrying out a massive energy revolution, Zheng said in a speech, via video link, in the recent The Responsible Energy Forum 2021.

PRAGUE, Oct 31 (Reuters) - A cable car fell to the ground in a mountainous part of northern Czech Republic on Sunday, leaving several people injured, local media reported.

Czech Television said the cable car was scheduled to close on Nov. 1 for scheduled maintenance.

ROME, Oct 31 (Reuters) - The United States and the European Union on Sunday ended a dispute over steel and aluminium tariffs and said they would work on a global arrangement on steel and aluminium to combat "dirty" production and overcapacity in the industry.

"The United States and the European Union have reached a major breakthrough that will address the existential threat of climate change while also protecting American jobs and American industry," U.S. President Joe Biden said.

SKOPJE, Oct. 31 (Xinhua) -- The second round of local elections kicked off on Sunday in 44 municipalities across North Macedonia.

A total of 1,353,990 citizens have the right to cast their votes in 2,481 polling stations from 7 a.m. (0500 GMT) to 7 p.m. local time.

Speaking at a press conference on Saturday, Ljupka Gugchecvka, the spokesperson of the State Election Commission, told reporters that the commission has accredited a total of 1,598 domestic and foreign observers to monitor the runoff, as well as 10 foreign journalists.