Europe

27 August 2022; MEMO: The announcement of French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday that Algerian gas constitutes a small amount of French energy sources refutes reports that a large portion of Algerian gas goes to France, Algerian newspaper Echorouk reported.

MOSCOW, August 26. /TASS/: Air temperatures in Moscow reached 30.3 Celsius on Friday, beating a record from 53 years ago, Alexander Sinenkov, a leading expert at the Phobos weather service, told TASS.

"According to data for the past 11 hours, the temperatures hit 30.3 degrees Celsius, a new record," he said.

According to Sinenkov, the previous record of 28.9 degrees Celsius was registered on August 26, 1969.

MOSCOW, August 26. /TASS/: Guests from more than 60 countries are expected to attend the Eastern Economic Forum (EEF), Presidential Aide and the EEF’s Executive Secretary of the Organizing Committee Anton Kobyakov said on Friday.

BELGRADE, August 26. /TASS/: Not a single European country can cope with the current energy crisis, or today’s gas prices in particular, President of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic said on Friday at the opening ceremony of a fair in Osecina.

MINSK, August 26. /TASS/: The overwhelming majority of Ukraine’s population do not hold extremist nationalist views, it's the leadership in Kiev that professes Nazism, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Friday.

MOSCOW, August 26. /TASS/: The Russian government is working on a bill that would regulate entry, exit and residence of foreigners, Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday.

He said at a Security Council meeting on migration policy that some issues in this area are systemic in nature and an integrated approach is needed to address them.

"So, a new comprehensive bill is being prepared, which should regulate the conditions for the entry, exit and stay of foreigners in our country," he said.

GENEVA, Aug 26 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Monkeypox cases fell by a fifth last week as infections in Europe dropped but the outbreak is going through “intense transmission” in the Americas, the World Health Organization said.

The WHO sounded the alarm for Latin America in particular, pointing to a lack of awareness and public health measures to control the spread of the virus.

A surge in monkeypox infections has been reported since early May outside the African countries where it has long been endemic.

GENEVA, Aug 26 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The World Health Organization announced that a million people had died from COVID-19 in 2022, calling it a “tragic milestone” when all the tools existed to prevent deaths.

Nearly 6.45 million deaths have been reported to the WHO since the virus was first detected in China in late 2019.

But WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus questioned whether the world was really on top of the pandemic, this far in.

“This week, we crossed the tragic milestone of one million reported deaths so far this year,” he told a press conference.

KYIV, Aug 26 (Reuters) - Ukraine plans to expand the number of districts on the war's front lines where civilian evacuations will be mandatory, as those areas could be occupied and face central heating problems this winter, a deputy prime minister said on Friday.

The Ukrainian government launched a campaign of mandatory evacuations in July for people in the eastern Donetsk region that it began implementing this month.

Ukrainian-controlled districts and towns in the industrial east are under constant shelling from Russia and its proxies.

SARAJEVO, Aug 26 (Reuters) - Government digital infrastructure in Montenegro has been hit by an "unprecedented" cyber attack and timely measures have been taken to mitigate its impact, authorities said on Friday.

"Certain services were switched off temporarily for security reasons but the security of accounts belonging to citizens and companies and their data have not been jeopardised," Public Administration Minister Maras Dukaj said on Twitter.