Europe

MOSCOW, November 11. /TASS/: Moscow hopes that the "crazy idea" of sanctions against the Russian company Aeroflot lives only in bogus stories, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Thursday.

"Let's all count on the fact that such crazy ideas live only in such bogus stories," he said, speaking of the possibility of imposing sanctions against the Russian airline by the EU.

MOSCOW, November 11. /TASS/: Russia supports the mutual recognition of COVID-19 vaccination certificates, with the fact of being vaccinated being more important than the specific vaccine that was used. It is necessary to separate the procedures of allowing vaccines on the market and recognize the certificates, Russian Health Minister Mikhail Murashko said during a meeting with the Council of Europe’s delegation led by the Council’s Deputy Secretary General Bjorn Berge on Thursday.

MOSCOW, November 11. /TASS/: The orbit adjustment for the International Space Station (ISS) scheduled for November 16 has been cancelled, following a space debris avoidance maneuver, Russia’s federal space agency Roscosmos told TASS on Thursday.

The ISS orbit was adjusted on Wednesday night to avoid a collision with space debris, Roscosmos said.

"The avoidance maneuver was calculated by ballistics specialists of the Flight Control Center at TsNIImash (part of Roscosmos), which allowed cancelling the November 16 orbit adjustment," the Russian space agency said.

MOSCOW, November 11. /TASS/: Moscow and Paris will need to have a serious discussion of Ukraine-related issues at a meeting between the Russian and French foreign and defense ministers set to take place in Paris on November 12, Russian top diplomat Sergey Lavrov said at a press conference on Thursday.

KAPCIAMIESTIS, Lithuania/WARSAW Nov 11 (Reuters) - Countries bordering Belarus on Thursday warned the migrant crisis on the European Union's eastern borders could escalate into a military confrontation while Ukraine said it would deploy thousands more troops to reinforce its frontier.

Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia said Belarus posed serious threats to European security by deliberately escalating its "hybrid attack" using migrants to retaliate for EU sanctions.

MINSK, Nov. 11 (Xinhua) -- Belarus and the United States will not exchange ambassadors in the near future, Belarusian Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei told media on Wednesday.

Belarus is interested in developing relations with the United States, Makei said, hoping that the United States will better understand the interests of Belarus instead of imposing a U.S.-style form of democracy on the country.

The United States believes Belarus plays a buffer role between Russia and the West, but Belarus has no interest in assuming that position, he said.

GLASGOW, Britain, Nov. 11 (Xinhua) -- China and the United States on Wednesday released the China-U.S. Joint Glasgow Declaration on Enhancing Climate Action in the 2020s here at the ongoing 26th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP26) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

PARIS (AP) — Some world leaders and internet giants are expected to issue a global call to better protect children online during a Paris summit of about 30 heads of state and government, including U.S. Vice-President Kamala Harris, the French presidency said on Thursday.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Security forces in Poland were tasked Thursday with securing the nation’s eastern border amid a migration fight with Belarus while also protecting the capital and other cities during Independence Day marches organized by far-right groups that turned violent in the past.

GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — The tightest of smiles on his face and the fabric of his traditional thobe swirling about him as he strides through a hallway at U.N. climate talks, Saudi Arabia’s energy minister expresses shock at repeated complaints that the world’s largest oil producer is working behind the scenes to sabotage negotiations.