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Germany’s parliament, the Bundestag, on Friday backed the government’s proposal of a €200 billion ($195 billion) fund to tackle skyrocketing energy prices.   The rescue package aims to help ease the energy crisis for industries and households.   According to the government, the fund is set to last until 2024 and will finance energy price caps and subsidies.   Private

The Ministry of Local Administration announced ‘a state of medium-level emergency,’ for the second day in a row, on Friday.   The ministry asked its main emergency rooms and municipalities in the Kingdom’s governorates to “immediately” deal with any emergency conditions that may accompany the unstable weather.   The ministry also urged its executive bodies to coordinate with the emergency

The end of the operational lifetime of the Risha Electric Power Plant caused a temporary halt of gas production in the Risha gas field, an official source in the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Recourses said on Friday.   The power plant consumes about 18 million cubic feet of gas per day that constitutes about 56 percent of the production

Giorgia Meloni was on Friday named as Italy’s first woman prime minister and chose her cabinet team.   Meloni, head of the nationalist Brothers of Italy, swept to victory in an election last month in alliance with Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia and Matteo Salvini’s League.   Her government – Italy’s 68th since 1946 – will replace a national unity administration

Former U.S. President Donald Trump was issued an order on Friday to testify under oath and provide documents to the House of Representatives committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by his supporters, Reuters reported.   The committee said it had sent a subpoena to Trump requiring documents to be submitted to the panel by Nov.

The US government on Friday reported that its fiscal 2022 budget deficit plunged by half from a year earlier to $1.375 trillion, due to fading COVID-19 relief spending and record revenues fueled by a hot economy, but student loan forgiveness costs limited the reduction.   The US Treasury said the $1.4 trillion reduction in the deficit was still the largest-ever