The German government has taken over the Russian oil giant Rosneft’s subsidiary in Germany, an action aimed at securing critical energy supplies as Europe moves toward a ban on Russian imports of crude later this year, the economy ministry…
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Norway will close its embassy in Sri Lanka from end July 2023 as part of structural changes in its network of diplomatic missions abroad, and accredit a Head of Mission based at another Norwegian embassy in the region to cover Sri Lanka
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No one knows how war will end. President Vladimir Putin of Russia, having silenced dissent, has proclaimed that “by and large, we haven’t started anything yet in earnest.” President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine, emboldened by a defiant…
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Once, a river ran through it. Now, white dust and thousands of dead fish cover the wide trench that winds amid rows of trees in France’s Burgundy region in what was the Tille River in the village of Lux
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In another sign of the fragility of Europe’s dependence on Russian energy, flows of oil from Russia to Central Europe have halted over a pipeline payments dispute, raising fears that an “energy war” between Moscow and its European oil…
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As President Vladimir Putin slashes natural gas flows to Ukraine’s European allies, the government in Kyiv has accused Russia of also stepping up the destruction of critical infrastructure that provides heat, water and electricity to…
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Oil prices dropped sharply on Monday (Aug 1) as weak manufacturing data from China and Europe weighed on the demand outlook while investors braced for this week's meeting of officials from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting…
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The weather maps for Europe were blood red Sunday (17) as heat that has been baking Spain and Italy and fanning fires in southwest France worked its way north toward Britain
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Days before a glacier in the Italian Dolomites broke off with the force of a collapsing skyscraper, crushing at least nine hikers under an avalanche of ice, snow and rock, Carlo Budel heard water running under the ice
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As Russian forces continued a slow, deadly march toward Ukraine’s last stronghold in the battered Luhansk region, the president of the European Commission on Tuesday (24) accused Moscow of deliberately trying to provoke a global food crisis…
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