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By Dogyu Lee & Euronews Doha bureau Published on 13 November 2026 – 12:07 GMT+1 Türkiye signed a preliminary agreement with China on Thursday (12 November) aimed at attracting around $15 billion (€13.5bn) in investment in solar and wind projects, its energy minister said. The agreement was signed at the COP31 UN climate summit in Antalya. It covers plans for solar and wind farms with a combined generating capacity of seven gigawatts, alongside energy storage and improvements to the electricity grid. Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar said the cooperation would also involve sharing technology to support the production of wind-turbine equipment in…
Winter travel can be an expensive business, particularly around the Christmas and New Year peak times, but choosing the right dates could make a significant difference to the cost of your trip. New data from Expedia has revealed the cheapest and most expensive days to fly and book accommodation over the coming months, as well as when airports and hotels are likely to be at their busiest. The online travel agency’s “Winter Travel Outlook” looked at both searches for accommodation and flights made between July and October this year for winter breaks compared to the same period in 2025. Here’s…
The Irish Data Protection Commission ruled that Tinder’s “Download My Data” tool is not complaint with GDPR. The company plans to appeal. Listen AI generated Text-to-speech
Published on 13 November 2026 – 11:56 GMT+1 Azerbaijan has put ‘Green Energy Corridors’ at the top of its agenda at the COP31 climate summit in Antalya. The goal is to physically integrate renewable grids across multiple countries and establish a direct electricity transit route from the Caspian Sea to European markets. The country has formed a new alliance with Türkiye, Georgia and Bulgaria, who all signed the multi-state Strategic Partnership Agreement in Clean Energy. Moving beyond broad climate pledges, discussions at the Azerbaijan Pavilion highlighted the proposed green energy routes and strategic Azerbaijan-Türkiye energy interconnection as critical drivers of…
Hungarian oil and gas company MOL says it will be technically ready to phase out Russian oil imports by the end of 2027, as it calls for more EU funding to support the transition away from Russian energy. Speaking to Euronews, MOL Hungary chief executive György Bacsa warned that reducing Hungary’s dependence on Russian crude could drive up energy costs, trigger social unrest and fuel political instability in Hungary and Slovakia, both of which remain heavily reliant on Russian oil. With a new government in Budapest, MOL will seek EU funding for energy diversification for the first time. The shift…
Published on 13 November 2026 – 11:59 GMT+1•Updated 12:00 Tech billionaire Jensen Huang and US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick have been summoned to testify before US lawmakers over the unfolding Nvidia scandal. Huang resigned as CEO of the chipmaker on Thursday after recent reports revealed details of two extramarital affairs, including one with an alleged Chinese spy. Congress is now calling for more clarity on the situation and what the Trump administration may have known about it. “Recent reports raise serious concerns about our national security and the protection of sensitive U.S. technology,” Republican Sen. Tim Scott wrote in a…
Brooklyn, 2016. Peter (Jordan Firstman) and his merry partygoing mates are off to the club with only two questions on their minds. “What is the year’s best album?” The answer seems to be a toss-up between Beyoncé’s ‘Lemonade’ and Frank Ocean’s ‘Blonde’. (Even if we all know that Danny Brown’s ‘Atrocity Exhibition’ is the clear winner, but that’s by the by.) “What do we want?” The answer is, empathically, drugs. And they want them now. The club they’re heading to won’t be Peter’s only stop of the night. He’s the life of the party on New York’s gay club scene,…
The five-time Olympic gold medal-winning judoka — that’s someone who does judo, not a number puzzle — announced his candidacy by saying: “France doesn’t need a professional politician who recites talking points and spends all day bickering. It needs common sense, firmness, justice and a government that sets things right.” As anyone who has ever tried to rewire a house or perform their own dentistry knows, many tasks very much do require a specialist. Politics is usually, though not always, one of them, and therefore Riner may be underestimating the challenge ahead. That said, he is a national hero and…
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Published on 13 November 2026 – 12:17 GMT+1 European diesel prices remained 77% above pre-war levels even as recovering Gulf exports pushed global oil supplies above demand for the first time since the Iran war began, the International Energy Agency said on Friday. Prices have fallen sharply in recent weeks, with North Sea Dated crude falling 32% from an early October peak of $136 a barrel to about $93 by the time the IEA wrote its report. European diesel prices fell 11% over the same period, to nearly $180 a barrel. The IEA said diesel shortages remained the market’s “overriding…