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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.
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.
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).
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).
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.
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).
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
Fri, 08/12/2022 - 15:52
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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