BRUSSELS – The Council of the European Union (EU) on Tuesday approved the start of negotiations on an agreement between the EU and the United Kingdom (Great Britain) on Gibraltar.
The Council openly provided information on talks as well as the negotiating directives. On this basis, the European Commission can now enter into formal negotiations with the United Kingdom. (EU-UK-Gibraltar)
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STOCKHOLM – The Nobel Prize in Physics 2021 is shared by three researchers, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on Tuesday.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2021 “for pioneering contributions to our understanding of complex physical systems,” with half in common with Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann “for physical modeling of the Earth’s climate, quantifying variation and reliably predicting the global the warming, “and the other half to Giorgio Parisi” for the discovery of the interplay between disturbances and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales. “(Sweden-Nobel Prize-Physics)
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TRIPOLI – The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Monday that 538 illegal migrants were rescued off the Libyan coast and returned to Libya in the past week.
From September 26 to October 2, “538 migrants were rescued / captured at sea and returned to Libya,” the IOM said. (Libya-illegal migrants)
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LOS ANGELES – California Governor Gavin Newsom on Monday night declared a state of emergency in Southern California’s Orange County to support the emergency response to the massive oil spill off the coast of Huntington Beach.
“The state is working to reduce bureaucracy and mobilize all available resources to protect public health and the environment,” Newsom said in a statement. (US-California oil spill)
Source: sn.dk
