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Russian missiles struck the centre of Ukraine's Pokrovsk twice on Monday night (7 August) killing eight people, including five civilians, regional governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said in a statement.

West African leaders scheduled a summit for Thursday to discuss the Niger junta's rejection of an ultimatum to reinstate the ousted president, as the United States sent a top official to Niamey to push for a return to democracy.

Hundreds of firefighters scrambled on Tuesday (8 August) to put out a blaze raging in southern Portugal that has scorched thousands of hectares of land and forced the precautionary evacuation of around 1,400 people.

Russia said Monday (7 August) it plans to launch a lunar lander this week after multiple delays, hoping to return to the Moon for the first time in nearly fifty years.

Britain began moving some migrants on to a large residential barge on its southern coast on Monday, as part of plans to save money and remove what the government called the "pull" of hotels for those arriving in small boats.

The death toll from days of heavy rains and flooding in Slovenia has climbed to six, police said Monday (7 August), as clean-up operations continued with help from neighbouring countries.

Spain's conservative People's Party (PP) said on Monday (7 August) it believed it could break a political deadlock and form a government after the hard-right Vox hinted it will not insist on being part of a coalition in exchange for its support.

An elite group of North Korean hackers secretly breached computer networks at a major Russian missile developer for at least five months last year, according to technical evidence reviewed by Reuters and analysis by security researchers.

Iceland has used its lobbying power vis-à-vis the EU to shelter Alexander Moshensky, a Belarusian oligarch close to Alexander Lukashenko, from sanctions, with Hungary also using its veto in his favour, fresh analysis from a consortium of investigative websites has revealed.

The German far-right AfD, whose party congress this weekend asserted that the EU has “failed”, is “founded on hatred” and looks to “destroy what already exists”, French EU minister Laurence Boone said on Monday (7 August).

The German far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has called the EU a "failed project" and called for it to be re-established as a 'Confederation of European Nations', the party said in its EU election programme that was adopted on Sunday (6 August).

A senior Ukrainian official said on Sunday that talks in Saudi Arabia towards a peaceful settlement of the war with Russia had been productive, but Moscow called the meeting a doomed attempt to swing the Global South behind Kyiv.

The long-suffering people of Niger's capital, Niamey, are used to intermittent power cuts. But since the coup d’état one week ago, interminable blackouts have tested their patience to the limit.

Hun Manet was appointed Cambodia's new leader by the king on Monday (7 August), after having effectively been given the post from his father who ruled for nearly four decades.

Exiled opponents of President Alexander Lukashenko met in Poland on Sunday (6 August), on the eve of the third anniversary of their unsuccessful post-election protests, to display unity and plan strategy including the issuance of "New Belarus" passports.

Ukraine struck and damaged the Chonhar road bridge linking mainland Ukraine to Crimea and a smaller bridge linking the town of Henichesk with the peninsula's northeast coast on Sunday (6 August), Moscow-appointed officials and Ukraine's armed forces said.

Russia said on 5 August it would punish Ukraine for using a sea drone to attack a civilian tanker near the Kerch Strait in what it said was a "terrorist act" that threatened the lives of the crew and risked "a large-scale environmental disaster".

Senior officials from some 40 countries including the US, China and India held talks in Saudi Arabia on 5 August that Kyiv and its allies hope will lead to agreement on key principles for a peaceful end to Russia's war in Ukraine.

The coup in Niger is not good news for Italy, potentially putting its much-touted new 'Mattei plan', which seeks to reinforce energy partnerships with African partners, to a halt, and increasing immigration flows towards Southern Europe, writes Francesco Sassi.

Serbia and Bosnia's Serb Republic on Friday (4 August) marked the 1995 exodus of Serbs from Croatia in a Bosnian town notorious for Serb war crimes during the Bosnian war, triggering outcry from survivors and human rights activists.