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A senior Ukrainian official suggested a series of explosions at a Russian air base in Crimea could have been the work of partisan saboteurs, as Kyiv denied any responsibility for the incident deep inside Russian-occupied territory.

The UK's meteorological agency on Tuesday (9 August) issued an "amber" warning for extreme heat, while the country's biggest water provider said restrictions loom as Britain braces for another punishing heatwave later this week.

Russian airlines, including state-controlled Aeroflot, are stripping jetliners to secure spare parts they can no longer buy abroad because of Western sanctions, four industry sources told Reuters.

Turkey on Tuesday (9 August) sent its newest drill ship on the first eastern Mediterranean energy exploration mission in nearly two years.

The Kremlin on Tuesday (9 August) dismissed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's call for a Western travel ban on all Russians as irrational, saying that Europe would ultimately have to decide if it wanted to pay the bills for Zelenskyy's "whims."

Two more grain-carrying ships left Ukraine's Chornomorsk port on Tuesday (9 August), Turkey's defence ministry said, as part of a deal to unblock Ukrainian sea exports, bringing the total to leave the country under a safe passage deal to 12.

Turkey’s next move could be to destabilise Moscow’s nominal ally Armenia in the Caucasus region, showing how weak the Kremlin’s positions in the South Caucasus have become, writes Nikola Mikovic.

Ukraine reported intense Russian shelling across the frontlines on Tuesday (9 August) as both sides traded blame for the weekend strike on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear complex which triggered international concern about a potential atomic disaster.

With positions on the EU's ‘Fit for 55’ climate laws mostly defined, the coming months will see the European Parliament and Council enter negotiations. The outcomes of this inter-institutional wrangling will shape transport policy across the EU for decades to come.

Trying to avoid resignation, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis insisted on Monday (8 August) that he was unaware that Socialist Party (PASOK) leader Nikos Androulakis' phone had been tapped, seeking to distance himself from a growing eavesdropping scandal.

Protestors in Tirana threw red paint on the Ministry of the Interior on 8 August to demand justice and resignations over the death of a seven-year-old girl who was killed by an off-duty police officer driving a boat at high speed.

The lessons of Russian aggression against Georgia on 8 August 2008 and the beginning of the war against Ukraine in 2014 were not learned by NATO and EU, writes Roman Rukomeda.

Britons living in Portugal are struggling to work, travel or even get health care because the authorities there have not issued the biometric document they need post-Brexit, a group representing them told AFP Monday (8 August)

The European Union submitted a "final text" at talks to salvage a 2015 deal aimed at reining in Iran's nuclear ambitions, and Tehran said Monday (8 August) that it was reviewing the proposals.

An EU plan to cut gas consumption across the bloc by 15 per cent to cope with an energy price crisis spurred by Russia's war in Ukraine comes into effect on Tuesday (9 August).

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.