Europe

ATHENS, April 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A Canadian military helicopter operating as part of a NATO surveillance force has gone missing in international waters between Greece and Italy, officials said.

The helicopter was attached to the Canadian frigate Fredericton, from where it had taken off for a patrol.

“There is a developing situation regarding one of our CH-148 Cyclone helicopters, deployed onboard HMCS FREDERICTON, which is currently contributing to Op REASSURANCE,” the Canadian armed forces said in a statement.

MOSCOW, April 30. /TASS/: Six multi-purpose medical centers to treat infectious diseases have been commissioned across Russia, the Defense Ministry told reporters on Thursday.

"The new buildings have been commissioned in Podolsk, Smolensk, Volgograd, Novosibirsk, Ussuriysk and Orenburg," the ministry said. These centers have been equipped with X-ray units, MRI scanners, ultrasound machines, anaesthesiology and endoscopy, as well as artificial lung ventilation systems.

MOSCOW, April 30. /TASS/: Russia’s Red Cross will purchase 31 lung ventilators and distribute them among Russian hospitals, RRC spokeswoman Valentina Perekhvatova told a TASS news conference on Thursday.

"With support from our partners we will soon purchase 31 lung ventilators, to be distributed among hospitals that need them the most. This will be done in cooperation with bodies of power concerned. In the first place, the Health Ministry," she said.

MOSCOW, April 30. /TASS/: The World Health Organization (WHO) noted the contribution of Russia’s Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing (Rospotrebnadzor) to the sanitary and epidemiological safety of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) and the CIS member nations amid the coronavirus epidemic, the watchdog’s press service announced Thursday.

PARIS, April 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) — COVID-19 is expected to cause global energy emissions to fall a record eight percent this year due to an unprecedented drop in demand for coal, oil and gas, the International Energy Agency said.

The IEA’s Global Energy Review was based on an analysis of electricity demand over more than 100 days, during which much of the world has entered lockdown in a bid to control the pandemic.

MOSCOW, April 30. /TASS/: The United States’ attempts to present itself as part of the Iran nuclear deal have no future, Russian Permanent Representative to International Organizations in Vienna Mikhail Ulyanov wrote on Twitter.

"The US attempts to present itself as ‘JCPOA participant’ have no future. It is like common sense mockery. Those who invented this idea gave bad advice to US authorities. Cynical approaches must have their own limits in order not to compromise the national policy to the worst extent," the tweet reads.

SEVASTOPOL, April 30. /TASS/: The personnel of the Black Sea Fleet’s army corps repelled an attack by notional saboteurs on a military hospital in Crimea during drills, the Fleet’s press office reported on Thursday.

"Under the drills’ scenario, a notional enemy attempted to penetrate the territory of a military hospital in order to seize it. After receiving an alarm signal, an alert unit of the Black Sea Fleet’s army corps promptly arrived at the scene where saboteurs had been detected," the press office said in a statement.

MOSCOW, April 30. /TASS/: The number of COVID-19 cases in Russia has risen by 7,099 over the past day to 106,498 in all regions, the anti-coronavirus crisis center reported on Thursday.

By now, 11,619 people have recovered and 1,073 have died, the crisis center said.

30 April 2020; AFP: COVID-19 is expected to cause global energy emissions to fall a record eight percent this year due to an unprecedented drop in demand for coal, oil and gas, the International Energy Agency said Thursday.

The IEA's Global Energy Review was based on an analysis of electricity demand over more than 100 days, during which much of the world has entered lockdown in a bid to control the pandemic.

30 April 2020; AFP: Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has donated a $100,000 prize she won from a Danish foundation to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) for use against the COVID-19 pandemic, the world body said Thursday.

"Like the climate crisis, the coronavirus pandemic is a child rights crisis," Thunberg, 17, was quoted as saying in the UNICEF statement.

"It will affect all children, now and in the long term, but vulnerable groups will be impacted the most," she added.