June, 2019

• 17 June

  UAE-funded project to enhance water capacity opens in Yemen’s Mocha

  

  MOCHA / WAM With the support of the UAE, a project to increase water production capacity was launched in Mocha, on Yemen’s Red Sea Coast. It will serve more than 30,000 residents of the city and neighbouring areas. Mohammed Al Junaibi, Director of Humanitarian Affairs for the Emirates Red Crescent, ERC, in Yemen, said that the project will involve the ...

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• 17 June

  Iran warns Europe it will breach nuclear stockpile cap in 10 days

  

  Bloomberg Iran warned European nations on Monday that it would breach in 10 days the landmark 2015 nuclear agreement unless they take action to alleviate the pressure of tightening US sanctions in the coming weeks. The spokesman for Iran’s atomic energy agency, Behrouz Kamalvandi, said the country would exceed a cap on stockpiles of low-grade uranium on June 27 and ...

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• 17 June

  Egypt’s ousted president Mohamed Mursi dies

  Bloomberg Egypt’s former president Mohamed Mursi died. He was 67. He fainted while attending a cou-rt hearing and later passed away. A former opposition lawmaker, Mursi was elected to the country’s top office in June 2012, less than 18 months after joining a jail break amid the chaos of a mass uprising that swept away the three-decade rule of Hosni ...

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• 17 June

  Triple suicide blasts kill 30 in Nigeria’s Borno

  Bloomberg At least 30 people were killed and 38 injured in attacks in Nigeria’s northeastern town of Konduga carried out by three female suicide bombers, the National Emergency Management Agency said. The attackers detonated their explosive devices simultaneously in a crowded area of the town, Bello Dambatta, a spokesman for the agency, told reporters in the northeastern city of Maiduguri. ...

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• 17 June

  Xi to meet North Korea’s Kim in Pyongyang ahead of G-20

  

  Bloomberg Chinese President Xi Jinping will travel to North Korea on Thursday for talks with Kim Jong Un, state media in Beijing and Pyongyang reported. The state visit will take place on June 20-21, China’s official Xinhua News Agency and the Korean Central News Agency reported on Monday, without elaborating. This will be Xi’s first visit as Chinese leader to ...

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• 17 June

  HK unrest stirs anti-China mood in Taiwan

  

  Bloomberg As Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam fights to survive, she’s taking heat from another government whose population is similarly skeptical of Beijing: Taiwan, an island claimed by China. Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen has strongly supported the hundreds of thousands of demonstrators who’ve opposed Lam’s “evil bill” to allow extraditions from Hong Kong to the mainland for the first time. ...

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• 17 June

  Former Slovak president launches political party

  

  Bloomberg Slovakia’s former president launched a political party to capitalize on public discontent with the ruling leftists who are struggling to contain the fallout from a journalist’s murder before the 2020 election. Anti-government sentiment has been rising in the ex-communist European Union nation for over a year since the killing of an investigative reporter exposed links between politicians, law enforcement ...

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• 17 June

  Ukraine warns Europe of gas crisis

  

  Bloomberg Ukraine is warning European nations to prepare for a gas crisis amid skepticism it will agree on a new transit contract with Russia before the current deal expires. It’s “highly probable” that a new accord won’t be concluded by January 1, when the current agreement ends, according to Ukraine’s deputy foreign minister Olena Zerkal. That echoes skepticism by the ...

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• 17 June

  Oil driller Parsley says it’s ‘attractive’ for any purchaser

  

  Bloomberg Parsley Energy Inc. said it would be “attractive” for any potential buyer as the US shale driller expects to generate positive free cash flow in the back half of this year. “We are attractive for purchasers whatever type of investor it is,” Chief Executive Officer Matt Gallagher said in a phone interview. “That’s always a goal, an objective of ...

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• 17 June

  Exxon, Saudi okay Texas chemical plant

  

  Bloomberg Exxon Mobil Corp. and Saudi Arabia’s state-controlled petrochemicals company formally approved construction of a new chemical complex in Texas that will process production from the Permian Basin’s booming oil and natural gas wells. The project near Corpus Christi will be the world’s largest steam cracker and create $50 billion of “economic output” in the first six years, Exxon and ...

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