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EU scolds Taliban after crackdown on women’s rally

Mon, 08/15/2022 - 06:44
The EU on Sunday (14 August) said it was "particularly concerned" about worsening conditions for women and girls in Afghanistan after the country's ruling Taliban violently broke up a women's rally.
Categories: European Union

Ukraine targets Russian soldiers threatening Europe’s largest nuclear power plant

Sun, 08/14/2022 - 07:11
Ukraine is targeting Russian soldiers who shoot at Europe's largest nuclear power station or use it as a base to shoot from, as G7 nations, fearing a nuclear catastrophe, called on Moscow to withdraw its forces from the plant.
Categories: European Union

Gazprom ramps up gas flows to Hungary via TurkStream pipeline

Sun, 08/14/2022 - 06:52
Russia's Gazprom has ramped up flows to Hungary via the TurkStream pipeline that brings gas to Hungary via Bulgaria and Serbia, a Hungarian foreign ministry official said on Saturday (13 August).
Categories: European Union

Moscow warns of end to Russia-US relations if assets seized

Sat, 08/13/2022 - 12:23
Any possible seizure of Russian assets by the United States will completely destroy Moscow's bilateral relations with Washington, TASS quoted the head of the North American Department at the Russian foreign ministry as saying on Saturday (13 August).
Categories: European Union

Eleven dead after mass shooting in Montenegrin city

Sat, 08/13/2022 - 08:10
Eleven people including two children were shot dead in Montenegro on Friday (12 August) evening in the deadliest mass shooting the Western Balkan country has ever experienced.
Categories: European Union

FBI seized top secret documents at Trump’s home; Espionage Act cited

Sat, 08/13/2022 - 07:57
FBI agents in this week's search of former US President Donald Trump's Florida home removed 11 sets of classified documents including some marked as top secret, the Justice Department said on Friday (12 August).
Categories: European Union

Number of migrants reaching EU sharply rises

Sat, 08/13/2022 - 07:38
The number of migrants arriving in the European Union rose by 86%t between January and July compared to the same period last year, the European border agency Frontex said Friday (12 August).
Categories: European Union

Brussels’ flower carpet blooms despite heatwave

Sat, 08/13/2022 - 07:27
The creators of Brussels' flower carpet, unfurled every two years in front of city hall, are opting for more heat-resistant blooms for the first time in the project's 50-year history to adapt to Europe's heatwave.
Categories: European Union

Novelist Salman Rushdie on ventilator after New York stabbing

Sat, 08/13/2022 - 07:20
Salman Rushdie, the Indian-born novelist who spent years in hiding after Iran urged Muslims to kill him because of his writing, was stabbed onstage in New York state on 12 August and airlifted to a hospital, police said.
Categories: European Union

Zelenskyy: EU should not be a ‘supermarket’ for rich Russians

Sat, 08/13/2022 - 07:08
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy issued a fresh call on Friday (12 August) for European Union states to ban visas for Russian nationals to keep the bloc from becoming a "supermarket" open to anyone with the means to enter.
Categories: European Union

Ukraine, Russia blame each other for nuclear plant shelling

Sat, 08/13/2022 - 06:50
Ukraine and Russia accused each other on Friday (12 August) of risking catastrophe by shelling Europe's largest nuclear power plant, occupied by Russian forces in a region expected to become one of the next big front lines of the war.
Categories: European Union

France plans fashion revolution with climate-impact labels

Fri, 08/12/2022 - 15:52
Is it better for the environment if you buy a brand-new cotton T-shirt or a recycled one? Well, it depends.
Categories: European Union

‘Accidents can happen at European nuclear plants too,’ Russian ex-president says

Fri, 08/12/2022 - 15:00
Russian ex-president Dmitry Medvedev issued a veiled threat on Friday (12 August) to Ukraine's Western allies, who have accused Russia of creating the risk of a nuclear catastrophe by stationing forces around the Ukrainian Zaporizhzhia power station.
Categories: European Union

Europe eyes Musk’s SpaceX to replace Russian rockets

Fri, 08/12/2022 - 14:05
The European Space Agency (ESA) has begun preliminary technical discussions with Elon Musk's SpaceX that could lead to the temporary use of its launchers after the Ukraine conflict blocked Western access to Russia's Soyuz rockets.
Categories: European Union

European bank agrees to process Russian oil transit payment to central Europe

Fri, 08/12/2022 - 13:47
A European bank has agreed to process a payment for the transit of Russian oil through Ukraine, two sources familiar with the matter said, removing the cause of a stoppage of oil supplies to central Europe last week.
Categories: European Union

Iran says EU proposal to revive nuclear deal could be ‘acceptable’

Fri, 08/12/2022 - 13:30
A European Union proposal to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal “can be acceptable if it provides assurances" on Tehran's key demands, the state news agency IRNA said on Friday (12 August), quoting a senior Iranian diplomat.
Categories: European Union

Kazakhstan to start oil sales via Azeri pipeline to bypass Russia

Fri, 08/12/2022 - 13:15
Kazakhstan is expected to sell some of its crude oil through Azerbaijan's biggest oil pipeline from September, as the nation seeks alternatives to a route Russia threatened to shut, three sources familiar with the matter said.
Categories: European Union

First export of wheat under UN deal as two more ships leave Ukraine

Fri, 08/12/2022 - 12:00
Two more ships left Ukraine's Black Sea ports on Friday (12 August), including one laden with the first Ukrainian wheat to be exported under an UN-brokered deal, Turkey's defence ministry said.
Categories: European Union

Mass fish die-off in German-Polish river blamed on unknown toxic substance

Fri, 08/12/2022 - 11:00
An unidentified highly toxic substance in the Oder river, which runs through Poland and Germany, appears to be the cause of a mass die-off of fish, the German state of Brandenburg's environment ministry said on Friday (12 August).
Categories: European Union

Increasing climate disasters could drive the EU to revamp its crisis response

Fri, 08/12/2022 - 08:00
While the EU plays an expanding but still limited role in disaster response, climate change effects in the long-term could force the bloc to rethink the management of its capacities, EU Commissioner for Crisis Management Janez Lenarčič told EURACTIV.
Categories: European Union

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