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SYRIA’S Environment Ministry has started work on solar energy projects to serve urban areas in all of the country’s provinces, the government announced today.
Ministry spokeswoman Rowaida al-Nahar explained that more than 10,000 solar-powered street lights have been distributed to towns and cities so far.
The ambitious plan will also enable water to be pumped – crucial at a time when Turkey and allied jihadist groups continue to block supplies to more than 1 million people in the northern province of Hasakah.
VIJAY PRASHAD details how US support for Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa allowed him to break the resistance of the autonomous Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)
One of the major criticisms of China’s breakneck development in recent decades has been the impact on nature — returning after 15 years away, BEN CHACKO assessed whether the government’s recent turn to environmentalism has yielded results