Ukraine Financial News
29.08 / 23:37
European Union
Food
Bitcoin
Russia to hold war games with China amid tensions over Ukraine invasion
Russia said it would launch sweeping military drills in the country’s east together with forces from China — a show of increasingly close defence ties between Moscow and Beijing amid tensions with the West.
29.08 / 20:51
European Union
Food
Bitcoin
Energy crisis: Ursula von der Leyen calls for 'emergency intervention' in electricity market
The worsening energy crisis besieging Europe has laid bare the "limitations" of the electricity market and requires an "emergency intervention" to bring down soaring prices, Ursula von der Leyen has said.
29.08 / 18:27
COST
Bitcoin
Bitcoin drops below $20,000 as cryptos feel the heat over interest rate hawkishness
Bitcoin had a rude awakening on Monday after its price briefly dropped below $20,000 (€20,017) following tough comments on interest rate hikes from the US Federal Reserve chief.
29.08 / 18:27
cryptocurrency
Food
Research
Bitcoin
reform
Olaf Scholz says EU must reform to cope with enlarging to 30 to 36 members
The European Union must undergo major reforms now to be ready to cope with having 30-36 members in the future, Germany's chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Monday.
29.08 / 18:27
cryptocurrency
Food
Research
Bitcoin
Ukraine war: Kyiv launches counter-offensive to retake Kherson, say authorities
Ukrainian forces have launched a counter-offensive in the south, aimed at pushing Russian troops back across the Dnipro river and retaking the occupied city of Kherson, local authorities announced on Monday.
29.08 / 17:39
UPS
Russia Confounds the West by Recapturing Its Oil Riches
Russia pumps almost as much oil into the global market as it did before its invasion of Ukraine. With oil prices up, Moscow is also making more money.
29.08 / 15:11
29.08 / 15:01
shooting
Pilots
Two Air France pilots suspended after cockpit fight during Geneva-Paris flight
Two Air France pilots have been suspended after a fight in the cockpit forced the aircraft's cabin crew to intervene.
29.08 / 13:59
shooting
EuroPride: Nationalists join church protest in Belgrade against Europe's largest LGBT event
Thousands of religious and right-wing opponents of plans to hold Europe's largest LGBT pride celebration in Belgrade marched through the Serbian capital on Sunday night.
29.08 / 09:29
Floods
NASA
EU faces several 'terrible winters' without price cap: minister
The EU will endure several "terrible" winters without controls on natural gas prices, Belgium's energy minister warned on Sunday.
28.08 / 21:55
Charity
Floods
NASA
Ukraine war: Nuclear plant latest, Russian recruitment and air defence
Russian rocket and artillery strikes hit areas across the Dnieper River from Europe's largest nuclear power plant, Ukrainian officials said Sunday, as fears persisted that fighting in the vicinity could damage the plant and cause a radiation leak.
28.08 / 15:57
Charity
Floods
Nuclear power plant
Poland and Czech to protect Slovak airspace as ageing MiGs are retired
Poland and the Czech Republic have agreed to protect Slovakia’s airspace as the country seeks to retire its 11 Soviet-era fighter planes.
28.08 / 12:53
Floods
Nuclear power plant
Six dead in Netherlands as truck crashes into community barbecue
At least six people were killed and seven more wounded in the Netherlands when a truck drove off a dike and slammed into a community barbecue.
28.08 / 11:43
Charity
Nuclear power plant
Pakistan floods: A thousand dead, millions affected by 'horrors of climate change'
Flash floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains across much of Pakistan have killed nearly 1,000 people and injured and displaced thousands more since mid-June, officials said this weekend.
27.08 / 22:03
Football
pandemic
Nuclear power plant
Ukraine war: Underwater drones, radiation fears and Moscow movies
Concern about the potential for a radiation leak at Europe's largest nuclear power plant persisted as Ukrainian authorities said Saturday that Russian forces fired on areas just across the river and Russia claimed Ukrainian shelling hit a building where nuclear fuel is stored.
27.08 / 22:03
Football
pandemic
Nuclear power plant
foreign
Deal
'We have a deal': Kosovo citizens to travel freely to Serbia, says EU foreign policy chief
Serbia will allow Kosovo citizens to enter the country with personal ID cards issued by the government in Prishtina, according to the EU foreign policy chief, settling part of the dispute that led to an escalation of tensions along the border between the two countries in early August.
27.08 / 16:07
Technology
Football
NASA
Power
Nuclear power
Ukraine war: Russia shells cities near nuclear power plant
Russian forces fired missiles and artillery on Ukrainian-held areas across the river from Europe's largest nuclear power plant, authorities said Saturday as concern persisted about safety at the Russian-controlled plant after it was temporarily knocked offline.
27.08 / 13:01
NASA
Europe's energy crisis
Pope Francis creates 20 new cardinals who may choose his successor
Pope Francis is creating 20 new cardinals on Saturday, a further step in the preparation of his succession.
27.08 / 12:05
Technology
Europe's energy crisis
Trump
FBI says Donald Trump mixed top secret documents with magazines at Florida estate
Fourteen of the 15 boxes recovered from former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate early this year contained classified documents, many of them top secret, mixed in with miscellaneous newspapers, magazines and personal correspondence, according to a newly-released FBI affidavit.
26.08 / 21:59
Technology
Kosovo prime minister asks for more NATO peacekeepers amid heightened tensions
There is an urgent need for further NATO troops in Kosovo due to "threats from Serbia and Russia," the small Balkan country's prime minister said on Friday.
26.08 / 21:55
Technology
Soaring energy prices: How does the UK compare with Europe?
Energy bills in the UK will leap by 80% this winter, the country's energy regulator Ofgem announced today, as the Ukraine war continues to drive up prices.
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