Turkey's Transport and Infrastructure Minister Abdulkadir Uraloğlu said Türkiye plans to increase the number of provinces directly connected by high-speed rail from 11 to 27 by 2028, with a long-term goal of enabling travel across the country within 48 hours by 2053.
Construction of the Balkhash nuclear power plant, Kazakhstan's first nuclear power plant (NPP), for which Rosatom was selected as the leader of the construction consortium, will begin next year. The decision by citizens to build the plant was the right one, Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said.
The United Arab Emirates has announced it will complete a new oil pipeline bypassing the strait of Hormuz by 2027 to secure its future crude exports against the threat of disruption.
Kazakhstan Railways has completed the modernization of the Altynkol-Zhetygen railway section, part of the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route (TITR, or Middle Corridor), Samruk-Kazyna reported.
Iranian specialists are already starting to return to the Bushehr nuclear power plant, and the construction of the second and third units could resume shortly, Rosatom CEO Alexey Likhachev said.
The Basra-Ceyhan oil pipeline could become an alternative to the Strait of Hormuz for energy exports, according to the head of the IEA.
A new city, Makran-e Markazi, will be built in Iran's southern Hormozgan Province soon. It will be built on the Persian Gulf coast and will have a population of over 150,000.
Türkiye’s Transport and Infrastructure Minister Abdulkadir Uraloglu said the construction has already started on Türkiye's Zangezur Corridor section.
Israel officially allocates land in southern Jerusalem for the construction of a new U.S. embassy, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar and Housing Minister Haim Katz said in a joint statement.
Workers have begun pouring concrete at the construction site of a small nuclear power plant in Uzbekistan, the press service of Russian nuclear corporation Rosatom said.
Armenian authorities are thoroughly studying options for constructing small modular nuclear power plants in the country, and the final choice of reactor will be based on criteria of safety, reliability, and stability.
The 17th meeting of the Joint Intergovernmental Commission on Economic, Trade, and Humanitarian Cooperation between Azerbaijan and Iran was held yesterday in Baku.
Russia and Iran will soon begin implementing joint projects in the area of renewable energy sources, including turnkey construction of solar power plants with a capacity of at least 100 MW, Russian Energy Minister Sergey Tsivilyov said following the meeting of the intergovernmental commission.
The practical implementation of the Rasht-Astara railway line project within the framework of the North-South international transport corridor will begin on April 1, 2026, Russian Energy Minister Sergey Tsivilyov said.
The construction and subsequent operation of Kazakhstan’s first nuclear power plant with Russia’s participation represent the creation of an entire sectoral cluster within the national economy, and Kazakhstan’s resources will be actively used for this purpose, Russia’s ambassador to Astana Alexey Borodavkin said.
U.S. President Donald Trump remains opposed to Israel's annexation of the West Bank, a White House official said ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's scheduled visit to Washington.
Saudi Arabian authorities intend to construct a building that will become the tallest in the world, surpassing the current record-holder the Burj Khalifa skyscraper in Dubai.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that Israel's plans to expand settlements in the E1 area of the West Bank would sever its northern and southern parts and deal a serious blow to the two-state solution.
The government of Kazakhstan has determined the location for its second nuclear power plant (NPP), approving the Zhambyl district in the Almaty region as the construction site.
Construction of the first reactor of the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant is 99% completed, Turkey’s Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar said.
