Europe

MADRID, Dec. 2 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP25) opened here on Monday, where delegates are discussing measures to implement the 2015 Paris Agreement amid unclear prospects and challenges to multilateralism.

GENEVA (AP) — A World Trade Organization panel ruled Monday that the European Union has not complied with an order to end illegal subsidies for plane-maker Airbus, which prompted the Trump administration to impose tariffs on nearly $7.5 billion worth of EU goods in October.

In its ruling, a WTO compliance panel found that the EU had not taken sufficient steps to end harm to Boeing, the major rival to Europe’s Airbus. The EU is expected to appeal, though the United States is on the cusp of preventing the WTO’s appeals court — the Appellate Body — from ruling on any new appeals.

LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and main opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn paused Monday to honor the two people killed in the London Bridge attack, then went back to trading blame for the security failings that allowed a man who had been jailed for terrorist crimes to go on a violent rampage in the heart of London.

Usman Khan stabbed two people to death and injured three others Friday before being shot and killed by police on the bridge. Two of the injured remain hospitalized in stable condition.

LONDON (AP) — President Donald Trump kicks off a two-day whirlwind of meetings with NATO alliance members, but his focus appears to remain centered on the impeachment inquiry playing out at home.

Before departing for London to meet Tuesday with other leaders from the 29-member alliance, Trump accused Democrats of trying to embarrass him by scheduling this week’s impeachment hearing while he’ll be abroad with NATO leaders.

SIMFEROPOL, December 2. /TASS/: Crimea has hit the tourist flow record over post-Soviet years, over 7 million people spent vacations on the peninsula by the beginning of the winter, Deputy Chairman of Crimea’s Council of Ministers and Permanent Presidential Envoy Georgy Muradov told TASS.

"This year, we exceeded the number of 7 million tourists. Crimea is Russia’s second most visited region for tourism and recreation after the Krasnodar Region," Muradov sai.

VLADIVOSTOK, December 2. /TASS/: Russia's Pacific Fleet servicemen will take part in three international drills with the fleets of the Asia-Pacific region states in the new training year, which started on Monday, the Pacific Fleet’s press service reported.

MOSCOW, December 2. /TASS/: Moscow’s Basmanny District Court has rejected Meduza news website reporter Ivan Golunov’s appeal against the inaction of the Russian Investigative Committee’s official looking into allegations of police officers’ offense against the journalist, a TASS correspondent reported from the courtroom.

"The Court hereby rejects the appeal," a judge said.

The prosecution pointed out that a probe was underway into Golunov’s claim that law enforcement officers could have planted drugs on him but it was too early to draw conclusions.

MOSCOW, December 2. /TASS/: Russia’s Research Institute of Machine Building in Nizhnyaya Salda, the Sverdlovsk Region, will create the first sample of rocket engine using an environment-friendly propellant by 2024, the CEO of the research and industrial association NPO Energomash, Igor Arbuzov, told TASS in an interview.

"The institute in Nizhnyaya Salda was contracted to develop engines using environment-friendly propellant components. This work is already in progress. The first sample is to be delivered in 2024," Arbuzov said.

SOCHI, December 2. /TASS/: The launch of the Power of Siberia gas pipeline brings energy cooperation between Moscow and Beijing to a new level, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at the launch ceremony via a TV link-up on Monday.

MOSCOW, December 2. /TASS/: Russia will set up a continuous radar field around its borders to early track the launches of cruise missiles, the take-offs of combat aircraft and other aerodynamic targets, the Defense Ministry reported on Monday.

"In a perspective, a continuous radar field will be set up for aerodynamic targets similar to the missile early warning system," the ministry said.