CAIRO, Jun 7 (NNN-MENA) – An agreement to build a wind power plant in Upper Egypt’s Sohag province, was signed yesterday, between Egypt’s Ministry of Electricity and Renewable Energy, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) clean energy firm, Masdar.

Under the deal, which is worth over 10 billion U.S. dollars, the wind power plant is planned to have a production capacity of 10 gigawatts, said the Egyptian cabinet, in a statement.

WASHINGTON, Jun 07 (APP): The United States Tuesday brushed asides renewed allegations of a “US conspiracy” that led to the overthrow of the previous Pakistani government, saying Washington valued its ties with Pakistan.

“These allegations are categorically false; you have heard me say this before,” State Department Deputy Spokesperson Vedant Patel told reports at his daily news briefing.

BEIRUT, June 7 (Xinhua) -- Lebanon will partner in the Green Middle East project launched by Saudi Arabia, said Lebanese Agriculture Minister Abbas Hajj Hassan on Wednesday, calling on more Arab countries to participate in the initiative.

"From now on, Lebanon will be part of this project... and we will work to play a positive role in dealing with the climate change and global warming issues," Hassan was quoted as saying by the National News Agency.

MOSCOW, June 7. /TASS/: Moscow is grateful to its African partners for refusing to join the anti-Russian campaign, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at a reception at the Foreign Ministry on the occasion of Africa Day on Wednesday.

"I would like to express my gratitude to our African partners who have not let themselves be dragged into the anti-Russian campaign and who have taken a balanced position on the European security crisis," Lavrov said.

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis underwent surgery Wednesday to repair a hernia in his abdominal wall, the latest malady to befall the 86-year-old pontiff who had part of his colon removed two years ago.

The Vatican said there were no complications during the three-hour surgery, which required Francis to be under general anesthesia. The 86-year-old pontiff was expected to remain at Rome’s Gemelli hospital for several days. As a precaution, all papal audiences were canceled through June 18, the Vatican said.

MOSCOW, June 7. /TASS/: An air task force of Russian Tu-95MS strategic missile-carrying aircraft and Chinese H-6K strategic bombers conducted a joint aerial patrol over the waters of the Sea of Japan, the East China Sea and the western Pacific, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Wednesday.

CHARIKAR, Afghanistan, Jun 7 (NNN-ANA) – Afghan police have arrested five people, including a woman, over the abduction and murder of a child, in Afghanistan’s eastern Parwan province, said a statement by the provincial police office today.

The child was abducted several days ago, and his body was found in Police District 1 of Charikar city, this morning, the statement said.

Similarly, police in the northern Takhar province arrested three kidnappers, and rescued a child from the kidnappers, last week.

PRISTINA, Kosovo June 7 (Reuters) - Kosovo could trigger new elections in Serb-majority municipalities rocked by violent protests if 20% of voters sign a petition asking for them, the president told Reuters.

In an exclusive interview in her office, President Vjosa Osmani said she believed a petition was the most "democratic way" to proceed to new elections.

"In this way, I think we would ensure the participation of Serbs because the request would have come from them to begin with, from citizens," she said.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — United Nations judges have declared an 88-year-old Rwandan genocide suspect unfit to continue standing trial because he has dementia and said they would establish a procedure to go on hearing evidence without the possibility of convicting him.

The majority decision published Wednesday by judges at the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals means no guilty verdict can be reached in the trial of Félicien Kabuga, one of the last fugitives charged in connection with the 1994 genocide.

Kanpur: A truck full of beer overturned on Tuesday here. A crowd gathered to loot the canes of beer. Meanwhile, the police reached the spot after getting the information. Police handled the situation.

It was later learnt that the truck laden with beer canes turned turtle near Chaubeypur highway as the road was dilapidated. When the police arrived on the spot the crowd was dispersed. People gathered to loot the beer canes.

VLADIVOSTOK/KIEV, June 6 (Xinhua) -- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday that Russian forces had destroyed the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant dam in southern Ukraine.

All services are working to eliminate the consequences of the incident, Zelensky said in a Telegram post, adding that he had convened the National Security and Defense Council.

Ukraine's state-run nuclear energy operator Energoatom said that the destruction of the dam may have negative consequences for the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.

06 June 2023; MEMO: Saudi Arabia has welcomed Venezuela's President to the Kingdom on an official visit, hosting yet another adversary of the West as it carves a more independent foreign policy path.

According to the state-run Saudi Press Agency (SPA), Venezuelan President, Nicolas Maduro, arrived in the Red Sea coastal city of Jeddah late yesterday, greeted by Saudi officials.