The Dubai Women Establishment, DWE, and the Nordic Embassies in the UAE signed a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, at the Global Women’s Forum Dubai, GWFD 2020, today, to launch a new mentorship scheme, "YES!", for young female professionals and entrepreneurs.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and his Ukrainian counterpart, Vadym Prystaiko, discussed on Saturday last month's tragedy when a Ukrainian commercial airliner was accidentally downed near Tehran by Iranian forces

The recent killing of the founder and leader of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP, banned in Russia), Qasim al-Rimi, by the US forces will unlikely give much momentum in Yemen's fight against terrorism since the terrorist group has every opportunity to restructure its leadership, experts told Sputnik

The Swedish Supreme Court last December rejected an appeal filed by Lithuania against the 2016 arbitration ruling in favor of Russian gas giant Gazprom, according to the company's prospectus for Eurobonds issue shared with Sputnik

Western Europe can expect more extreme weather, as meteorologists have predicted that Storm Dennis will bring heavy rain and gusts of more than 60 miles per hour on Saturday, the UK Met Office warned on Tuesday, after bad weather killed at least seven people in Europe this past weekend

The UN Security Council draft resolution, submitted jointly by Russia and China and urging easing of sanctions imposed on North Korea, is currently at the negotiating table, but some member states are objecting its proposals, Russian Permanent Representative to the United Nations Vassily Nebenzia has said in an interview with Sputnik

Scientists have discovered that strains of tuberculosis (TB) with a supposedly lethal mutation can, in fact, survive and that the mutation makes the bacteria resistant to an important antibiotic