The Ever Given container ship, which in March blocked the Suez Canal, arrived at the Dutch port of Rotterdam early morning Thursday after having been been released by authorities in Egypt, the Netherlands NOS broadcaster reported

French government spokesman Gabriel Attal said on Wednesday that probes were underway into reports that the smartphones of President Emmanuel Macron and other world leaders were targeted by the Israeli surveillance giant NSO Group and its Pegasus spyware

Former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden warned on Tuesday of a "lethal threat" posed by Big Tech companies, estimating that the number of spyware victims would be a thousand times higher if investment in the intrusive technology continued

Egypt and Sudan are politicizing the issue of Renaissance Dam construction on the Blue Nile and are trying to get other countries involved just to solve their internal problems, while the dam in fact carries no environmental risks, Ethiopian Ambassador to Russia Alemayehu Tegenu said in an interview with Sputnik

Ethiopia insists that the second Russia-Africa Summit should be held in its capital of Addis Ababa, since this is the most suitable venue, the African country's ambassador to Russia, Alemayehu Tegenu, said in an interview with Sputnik

Primary generation of electricity with two turbines of the Renaissance Dam in Ethiopia may start in two or three months, and the country does not plan to suspend dam construction because of Sudan's possible complaint with the United Nations, Ethiopian Ambassador to Russia Alemayehu Tegenu said in an interview with Sputnik