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Britain said it will cap wholesale energy bills for businesses this winter to ensure companies don’t go bust amid soaring energy prices.

Cyprus has assisted in rescue of a small wooden boat crammed with more than 300 migrants that was floating west of the island nation.

PM Liz Truss says the death of Queen Elizabeth II is a “very difficult moment”, and dealing with it has been a challenge for the new govt.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) – Poland´s top leaders celebrated the opening Saturday of a new – albeit unfinished – canal that they say will mean ships no longer must secure Russia´s permission to sail from the Baltic Sea to the ports of the Vistula Lagoon.

Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin will leave Buckingham Palace for the last time Wednesday as it is taken past crowds of mourners to Westminster.

EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen called for increased taxes on energy profits because of the war in Ukraine and climate change.

Ukraine claimed a military breakthrough against Russian invaders as the U.S. unveiled another $2.8 billion in military aid.

An 18-year-old man who attacked and killed two teachers with an axe at a Swedish high school was sentenced to life in prison.

The current Slovak government has been donating arms to the Ukrainian armed forces while opening its border to refugees fleeing the war with Russia.

During the planned three and a half months of court proceedings in Paris, survivors and those mourning loved ones will recount the horrors inflicted along the beachfront of Nice on the night of July 14, 2016.

BRUSSELS (AP) – Weapons stocks in the European Union are running low as member countries continue to sends arms and ammunition to Ukraine, the bloc’s top diplomat warned Monday as he urged EU nations to better coordinate their spending on military materiel.

(AFP) – Germany’s President Frank-Walter Steinmeier admitted on Sunday it was “shameful” that it took five decades for Berlin to agree compensation for the bereaved families of Israeli victims in the 1972 Munich Olympics attack.

Russian shelling hit the southern Ukraine port city of Mykolaiv and Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city.

Bastille Day, 2016. Shortly after the end of a fireworks display, a 19-tonne (21 U.S.-ton) truck careered through the crowds for 2 kilometres (1¼ miles) like a snow plough, hitting person after person. The final death toll was 86, including 15 children and adolescents, while 450 others were injured…

The Kremlin’s refusal to declare a state funeral reflects its uneasiness about the legacy of Gorbachev, who has been venerated worldwide for bringing down the Iron Curtain but reviled by many at home for the Soviet collapse and the ensuing economic meltdown that plunged millions into poverty.

There is an elevated threat of terror attacks on French soil by Islamic extremists, France’s national anti-terrorism prosecutor warned Friday.

EU countries called to ban tourist visas, but some nations said ordinary Russians who may oppose the war shouldn’t be punished.

A team of inspectors was heading Wednesday to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant caught in the middle of the fighting in southern Ukraine.

Gazprom stopped the flow of natural gas through a major pipeline early Wednesday, a move it signalled in advance and says will be temporary.

Amsterdam will accommodate at least 1,000 migrants on a cruise ship as the Netherlands seeks to end an immigration accommodation crisis.

EU ministers talk ramping up weapons production, boost training for the Ukrainian troops and inflict heavier costs on Russia.

PRAGUE (AP) – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz called Monday for a growing European Union to agree on a series of changes that would help it overcome internal divisions and stand up to external rivals such as Russia and China.

MOSCOW (AP) – Russia said Monday it will launch sweeping war games drills in the country’s east that will involve forces from China – a show of increasingly close military ties between Moscow and Beijing amid tensions with the West over the Kremlin’s action in Ukraine.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – 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.

Six months into a war that has killed thousands of Ukrainians and displaced over 12 million more, most of the pledges to drop Russian investments — some made with great fanfare during news conferences — have gone unfulfilled.

(AFP) – European natural gas prices climbed Thursday towards a record peak on heightened fears over Russian supplies, while equities rose on the eve of a key speech from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.

UK residents will see an 80 per cent increase in their annual household energy bills, the country’s energy regulator announced Friday, following a record 54 per cent spike in April. That will bring costs for the average customer from 1,971 pounds ($2,332) a year to 3,549 pounds.

The Associated Press found more than 3,600 shipments of wood, metals, rubber and other goods have arrived at U.S. ports from Russia since it began launching missiles and airstrikes into its neighbour in February.

Two Bulgarian police officers were killed early Thursday as they tried to stop a bus containing migrants who had entered the country illegally, a senior interior ministry official said.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Cabinet approved legislation Wednesday that allows for lockdown restrictions during the fall and winter.

President Zelensky vowed that Ukraine will resist Russia “until the end” without “any concession”, as the nation marks its Independence Day.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has decided to show Britain’s solidarity with Ukraine by saying it with flowers on Tuesday.

The euro has fallen below parity with the dollar, diving to its lowest level in 20 years, ending a one-to-one exchange rate with the dollar.

Dutch lawmakers broke into their summer vacations Tuesday to debate the government’s contentious plans to slash nitrogen emissions.

NIKOPOL, Ukraine (AP) – Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which hits the half-year mark this week, has already killed some 9,000 Ukrainian soldiers, a general said, and the fighting Monday showed no signs that the war is abating.

MOSCOW (AP) – Russia’s top counter-intelligence agency on Monday blamed Ukrainian spy services for organizing the killing of the daughter of a leading Russian nationalist ideologue in a car bombing just outside Moscow.