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26.07 / 19:59
Ukraine war: The latest developments you need to know this Tuesday
Russia targeted Ukraine's Black Sea regions of Odesa and Mykolaiv with airstrikes on Tuesday, hitting private property and port infrastructure along the country's southern coast, the Ukrainian military said.
26.07 / 13:41
Deal
Energy ministers reach deal on EU-wide gas reduction plan
Energy ministers from EU countries have reached a deal on an unprecedented energy plan that will introduce a voluntary 15% reduction in gas consumption across the bloc from now until next spring.
26.07 / 12:57
Wildfires
Russia to make drastic cuts to EU gas supply via Nord Stream pipeline
Russian energy giant Gazprom would further reduce natural gas flows through the Nord Stream pipeline to 20% of capacity, citing equipment repairs. The move ramps up concerns that Russia may cut off gas as political leverage over the war in Ukraine, just as Europe tries to shore up storage for winter.
26.07 / 11:45
Europe
Which European countries are rethinking military service amid Ukraine war?
“Any Frenchman is a soldier and owes himself to the defence of the nation,” declared the Jourdan Act of 1798, pioneering the concept of universal military service.
26.07 / 10:01
Report
Brexit's new migration borders 'fracture ties' of mixed UK-EU families
Brexit is not done for many British-European families, even two and a half years after the UK left the European Union.
26.07 / 10:01
CLIMATE CRISIS
Wildfires
Guatemalan president becomes first Latin American leader to visit Zelenskyy in Kyiv
Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei has visited Kyiv to express his solidarity with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as Russia continues its brutal assault of Ukraine.
26.07 / 07:53
Indigenous
Schools
Pope apologises for 'evil' abuse at Indigenous schools in Canada
Pope Francis has issued an historic apology for the Catholic Church’s cooperation with Canada’s “catastrophic” policy of Indigenous residential schools, saying the forced assimilation of Native peoples into Christian society destroyed their cultures, severed families and marginalised generations.
25.07 / 19:37
business
wallet
Bitcoin Wallet
Bitcoin
Lost
Crypto user who lost $163M in Bitcoin wants to deploy robot search party: Report
James Howells, a British man who mistakenly discarded a hard drive containing roughly 7,500 Bitcoin in 2013 has reportedly started looking at having robots and humans work together to retrieve his crypto from a local landfill.
25.07 / 18:11
Ukraine war: What you need to know about the conflict this Monday
Ukraine said on Monday it hoped a UN-brokered deal aimed at easing global food shortages by resuming grain exports from the Black Sea region would start to be implemented this week.
24.07 / 18:17
European Union
Deal
Grain deal on knife-edge after 'Russian missiles' hit key Ukrainian port
A breakthrough deal to unblock Ukraine grain shipments is on a knife-edge following missile strikes on a key Ukrainian port Saturday.
24.07 / 15:01
European Union
Traffic
'800km of traffic': European holiday season kicks off with gridlock
Waiting for hours in a traffic jam is not exactly the way we'd all like to start our holidays, but that's exactly what many Brits trying to cross the channel faced in Dover this weekend.
23.07 / 13:07
European Union
Protest
Deal
'Russian missile strikes' in Ukrainian port hours after grain deal, claims Odesa MP
A Ukrainian MP has claimed Russian missiles struck a key Ukrainian port Saturday morning, only hours after Kyiv and Moscow signed a landmark deal to unblock shipments of grain
22.07 / 23:49
Protest
Environmental activists stage protest at Uffizi, Botticelli masterpiece unharmed
Italian environmental activists glued their hands on Friday to the glass protecting Sandro Botticelli's masterpiece in the Uffizi Galleries in Florence, police said.
22.07 / 21:59
Transnistria separatists set their eyes on possible Russian unification
The foreign minister of Transnistria has said that the separatist region is committed to achieving independence from Moldova and possible unification with Russia, and that Moldova's recent EU candidacy status effectively ends any possibility of cooperation.
22.07 / 21:15
Ukraine war: The latest developments you need to know this Friday
Ukraine and Russia signed a breakthrough agreement on Friday, designed to help relieve a global food crisis caused by blocked Black Sea grain exports.
22.07 / 16:25
Brussels launches new legal action against London over Northern Ireland Protocol
The European Commission on Friday launched four new infringement procedures against the UK over the implementation of the Northern Ireland Protocol.
20.07 / 22:55
Stablecoin
regulation
legislation
Financial
UK financial markets bill authorizes regulation of stablecoins, service providers
The Financial Services and Markets Bill was introduced into the UK Parliament on July 20. The comprehensive bill, which was meant to preserve the UK’s leading place in the financial world post-Brexit, repealed retained EU laws, reformed certain insurance laws, supported victims of financial fraud and established new growth and competitiveness objectives. The bill also regulated stablecoins.
18.07 / 16:01
Deal
Food crisis: There is 'hope' for a Russia-Ukraine deal on grain export
The European Union is hopeful that a deal between Ukraine and Russia over the exports of grain can be reached this week.
18.07 / 09:01
Sport
Heatwave
Heatwave red alert as temperatures soar to extreme highs across Europe
Governments across Europe issued extreme heat warnings with temperatures forecast to top +40°C in several parts of the continent.
17.07 / 18:51
Sport
Sky News
UK PM Johnson's government under fire for neglecting heatwave danger
The UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his cabinet were accused on Sunday of not taking the impending heat emergency seriously as forecasters warned of its risk to human lives.
15.07 / 14:53
business
War crimes
Captured British aid worker reportedly dies in custody in east Ukraine
A British aid worker, captured in eastern Ukraine, died in custody on 10 July, separatist authorities announced on Friday.
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