Qatar warned that it will cease gas exports to the European Union if the bloc’s countries impose penalties under recently adopted legislation on sustainability due diligence, Qatari Energy Minister Saad Sherida al-Kaabi told the Financial Times. The EU’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, which entered into force in July, allows for fines of up to 5 percent of a company’s annual global revenue if the management fails to address adverse human rights or environmental impacts. “If I lose 5 percent of my revenue by supplying Europe, I won’t supply Europe,” al-Kaabi told the newspaper in an interview published Sunday. “I’m not bluffing,” he added. Qatar has become…
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Germany and Turkey discussed arms supplies and regional conflicts during German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s visit to Istanbul on Saturday. A project to supply Turkey with Eurofighter jets, spearheaded by Britain, is still in its early stages, Scholz said at a joint press conference with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. “It is something that will continue to develop, but is now being driven forward from there (Britain),” he stated when asked about progress on the issue, Reuters reported. Scholz is visiting Turkey in the wake of an EU summit focused on migration and amid an emotional debate on harsher asylum rules and…
As G7 defense ministers held talks on Saturday amid rising tensions in the Middle East, a drone was launched toward Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s home in the northern Israeli town of Caesare. Netanyahu was not in the area and there were no casualties, his spokesman said, according to media reports. The Israeli military said earlier that a drone launched from Lebanon had stuck a building; it was not immediately clear what the building was. Two more drones entering Israeli airspace were intercepted by the military, it said. The killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar earlier this week had raised hopes for…