Europe
Russia clears beaches after Black Sea oil spill, declares emergency in Crimea
Russia declared a regional state of emergency on Saturday in Crimea, which it seized from Ukraine in 2014, as workers cleared tons of contaminated ...Moscow-backed enclave in Moldova feels pain from lack of Russian gas
By Mark Trevelyan, Lucy Papachristou and Filipp Lebedev Reuters The severing of one of Russia’s last gas export routes to Europe is ...Russia says it struck Ukrainian energy facilities
Russia said on Thursday it had attacked energy facilities in Ukraine that support Kyiv’s military-industrial complex. The Russian Defence Ministry said that ...World welcomes 2025 with fireworks and light shows
South Korea holds muted New Year events after plane crashpublished New Year celebrations in South Korea have been cancelled or scaled back ...Finland finds drag marks on Baltic seabed after cable damage
Finnish police said they had found tracks that drag on for dozens of kilometres along the bottom of the Baltic Sea where ...Russia targets Ukrainian energy infrastructure on Christmas Day
BY ILLIA NOVIKOV, Associated Press Russia launched a massive missile and drone barrage targeting Ukraine’s energy infrastructure on Wednesday, striking a thermal ...Putin vows ‘destruction’ on Ukraine after Kazan drone attack
Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed to bring more “destruction” to Ukraine in retaliation for a drone attack on the central Russian city ...Russia says it hit military targets in Ukraine in response to attack with Western missiles
Russian forces hit military targets in Ukraine with long-range high-precision weapons on Friday in response to an attack on Russia’s Rostov region ...Putin’s top nuke general killed in Moscow after ‘bomb was hidden in scooter’
The head of the Russian army’s chemical weapons division died on Tuesday when an explosive device attached to a scooter went off ...North Korean troops join Russian assaults in significant numbers, Kyiv says
By Olena Harmash and Tom Balmforth Reuters Russia has begun using North Korean troops in significant numbers for the first time to conduct assaults ...














