LONDON: The recent conflict between Israel and the Palestinians has inspired a trend of pro-Palestine protests in British schools, with controversy surrounding the response of some teachers after pupils were unfairly accused of antisemitism and one headteacher describing the Palestinian flag as a “call to arms.” Mike Roper, headteacher of Allerton Grange high school in the
On 31
st December 2020, the Shah Deniz consortium
announced commencement of commercial gas deliveries to Europe from
the Shah Deniz gas field in the Caspian Sea offshore Azerbaijan via
the newly completed Southern Gas Corridor (SGC) pipeline system.
The start of gas deliveries through the final section of the SGC
– the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) – marks the full
integration of the entire SGC gas value chain, stretching 3,500
kilometers from Azerbaijan to Europe.
Deliveries through this final stage of the system follow safe
and reliable gas deliveries to regional markets from the Shah Deniz
field via the first two sections of SGC – the South Caucasus
VIENNA: The Austrian government came under fire Thursday for a new “Islam map” showing the location of mosques and associations around the country, with religious groups saying it would stigmatize Austria’s Muslim population.
Earlier, Integration Minister Susanne Raab unveiled an Internet website called the “National Map of Islam” with the names and locations of more than 600 mosques, associations and officials and their possible links abroad.
But the interactive map compiled in collaboration with the University of Vienna and the Documentation Center of Political Islam alarmed many of Austria’s Muslims and the ruling center-right OeVP party’s coalition partner, the Greens, also distanced itself from it.
NEW DELHI: Farmers in the Indian capital New Delhi and surrounding areas observed a “black day” on Wednesday to mark six months of protests against agricultural laws they say favor private businesses at the expense of the growers they buy from.
Thousands of farmers from the mostly rural states of Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan have set up camp in the outskirts of the capital to protest against three laws that were passed in September.
A few weeks into the protests, which began in late November, their numbers rose to about 300,000 and peaked in January, when nearly a million arrived from across the country, braving scorching heat and fears of coronavirus.