As the war enters its 870th day, these are the main developments. Here’s where the war stands on Sunday, July 14, 2024: Fighting Russian fire killed five civilians in Ukraine’s Kharkiv, with one missile attack carried out after emergency services had arrived at the scene of an earlier attack, officials…
The temporary law was approved by 167 lawmakers, the minimum needed for it to pass in the 200-seat parliament. Finland’s parliament has passed a controversial bill granting border guards the power to block asylum seekers crossing from Russia. Finland has accused neighbouring Russia of weaponising migration by encouraging many people…
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz welcomes the plan, says it is ‘something of deterrence and it’s securing peace’. The United States’s decision to station long-range missiles in Germany could lead to a Cold War-style “direct confrontation”, Russia has warned, as Chancellor Olaf Scholz hailed the move. The White House announced the…
Kremlin says planned US deployment of long-range missiles to Germany and other actions are ‘national security threat’. Russia has said it will “counteract” the expansion of NATO infrastructure in Europe, claiming that the military alliance is “constantly and incrementally moving towards” its borders as tensions escalate over the war in…
The Cameroonian-flagged ship is alleged to have been working for Russia to transport the Ukrainian grain to the Middle East. Ukraine has seized an international freighter it says was transporting stolen Ukrainian grain from Russian-occupied Crimea. Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) said on Thursday that its forces stopped the vessel in…
NATO leaders have pledged to provide Ukraine with at least $43bn in military aid within the next year to bolster its defences against Russia and formally declared Kyiv on an “irreversible path” to membership in the Western military alliance. The pledges, included in a final communique following a NATO summit…
Starting in the 1990s, at the end of the Cold War, climate change became a fixation for rich-country politicians and elites. There was relative peace and trust across the world, broad economic growth and swift progress being made against poverty. In the capitals of Europe in particular, it felt like…
As the war enters its 867th day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Thursday, July 11, 2024: Fighting Russia launched 20 drones and five missiles at Ukraine, killing two people in the Black Sea region of Odesa, damaging port infrastructure and hitting an energy facility in…
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has pressed on with his shuttle diplomacy to achieve a ceasefire in Ukraine, visiting Beijing on Monday after passing through Kyiv and Moscow. Ukrainian allies NATO and the European Union disavowed the mission, saying Orban was not undertaking an initiative on their behalf. Russia, after…
Yulia Navalnaya is accused of participating in an ‘extremist’ group and she faces at least two months in jail if she returns to Russia from exile. A court in Moscow has ordered the imprisonment of Yulia Navalnaya – widow of late Russian opposition politician Alexey Navalny – for two months….
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