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The head of Ukraine's state nuclear power company Energoatom called on Monday (8 August) for the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant to be made a military-free zone, warning of the risk of a Chornobyl-style nuclear disaster after the site was hit by shelling.

Tensions are mounting ahead of this year's U.N. climate summit as vulnerable countries ramp up demands for rich countries to pay compensation for losses inflicted on the world’s poorest people by climate change.

The leader of Italy's centrist Azione party said on 7 August it would leave a centre-left election alliance it formed with the Democratic Party (PD) last week, dealing a blow to the coalition's odds ahead of a 25 September ballot.

Awakening after a geopolitical slumber, European leaders should have the courage to think in the categories adequate to the times we live in, writes Mateusz Morawiecki in an exclusive op-ed.

France on Sunday (7 August) braced for a fourth heatwave this summer as its worst drought on record left parched villages without safe drinking water and farmers warned of a looming milk shortage in the winter.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Monday (8 August) that the risk of nuclear confrontation had returned after decades, calling on nuclear states to commit to no first use of the weapons.

Nobody should doubt that the aggressions of 2008, 2014 and 2022 are parts of the same strategy of Russia to redraw the borders in Europe, and the target is the collective West per se, writes Vakhtang Makharoblishvili.

Four more ships carrying around 170,000 tonnes of grain set off from the Black Sea ports of Odesa and Chornomorsk on 7 August, as Moscow accused Kyiv of carrying out a new strike against a Russian-occupied nuclear plant.

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis apologised to the leader of the country’s opposition Socialist party for not knowing that he had been wiretapped by Greece’s intelligence service in 2021, adding he would never have allowed it. The case has shocked...

Millions of boxes of oranges are spoiling in containers stranded at European ports as South Africa and the European Union lock horns in a dispute over import rules, citrus growers have said.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Saturday (6 August) accused Russia of using the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant "for terror" after the operator of the facility reported major damage at the site.

Israeli air strikes pounded Gaza while the militant Islamic Jihad group fired hundreds of rockets into Israel on Saturday (6 August) as a cross-border clash continued into a second day, killing at least six people, including four children.

Kosovo police patrolling the Serbian border came under fire at the weekend, in an area of the country marred by ethnic disputes and smuggling activities, while the government has laid the blame on ‘illegal Serbian groups’. Tensions between western Balkan...

Russia has banned investors from so-called unfriendly countries from selling shares in key energy projects and banks until the end of the year, stepping up pressure in the sanctions stand-off with the West.

European Union countries formally adopted the bloc's emergency plan to curb gas use on Friday (5 August), as they attempt to save fuel for a winter of uncertain Russian supplies, despite Poland and Hungary both opposing the final law.

Greece's conservative government was rocked Friday (5 August) by a long-simmering surveillance scandal after its intelligence chief and a close aide to Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis resigned in the space of an hour.

China announced on Friday (5 August) it was halting dialogue with the United States in a number of areas, including between theater-level military commanders and on climate change, in a furore over US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan.

Kyiv and Moscow accused each other of striking Europe's largest nuclear site on Friday (5 August), causing a reactor stoppage as three grain ships departed Ukraine under a deal to avert food shortages.

Russia's foreign ministry said on Friday (5 August) that Moscow declared 14 Bulgarian diplomats persona non grata, leaving the country with almost no diplomatic presence.

Instead of seeking a diplomatic solution following the disaster it created with its invasion of Ukraine, Russia is seeking another conflict, so that its aggression will look as second-class news, writes Orhan Dragaš, according to whom Kosovo is such a target.