The war has trapped about 22 million tons of grain inside Ukraine, according to President Volodymyr Zelensky, a growing crisis for the country known as the “breadbasket of Europe” for its exports of wheat, corn and sunflower oil.
Muslims make up almost 1 per cent of the population in Ukraine, which is predominantly Orthodox Christian. There is a large Muslim population in Crimea — home to the Crimean Tatars and illegally annexed by Russia in 2014. Numbers there jump to 12 per cent. There is also a sizeable Muslim community in eastern Ukraine, the result of waves of economic migration as the region industrialised and many Muslims immigrated to the Donbas region to work in the mines and factories.
MAASLAND, Netherlands (AP) – Bales of hay lie burning along Dutch highways. Supermarket shelves stand empty because distribution centres are blocked by farmers. Then, at dusk, a police officer pulls his pistol and shoots at a tractor.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Russian forces are managing to “raise true hell” in Ukraine’s eastern industrial heartland despite reports of them taking an operational pause, a regional governor said Saturday, while the government in Kyiv urged people in Russian-occupied southern areas to evacuate “by all possible means” ahead of a Ukrainian offensive.
(AFP) – Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled his official residence on Saturday shortly before protesters, angered by an unprecedented economic crisis, overran the compound and stormed his nearby office.
“It is unbelievable that a small nation was asked to give up its language, history and constitution-making powers”, the law professor said.
France repatriated 51 women and children from former Islamic State areas in Syria, according to the counterterrorism prosecutor´s office.
Dutch farmers angry at government plans to slash emissions protested with tractors, the latest actions in a summer of discontent.
The UK is trying to find out who hacked the army´s social media accounts over the weekend, flooding them with cryptocurrency videos.
Dutch prosecutors arrested a 27-year-old Polish man suspected of organizing the killing of well-known crime reporter Peter R. de Vries.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Russia’s defence minister said Russian forces took control Sunday of the last major Ukrainian-held city in Ukraine’s Luhansk province, bringing Moscow closer to its stated goal of seizing all of Ukraine’s Donbas region.
Slovyansk is a city of splintered loyalties. With a large retired population, it is not uncommon to hear older residents express sympathy towards Russia or nostalgia for their Soviet past. There is also distrust of the Ukrainian army and government.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) – Police investigating suspected doping by the Tour de France team Bahrain Victorious seized more than 450 capsules of unidentified substances at a house in Slovenia during raids across Europe, the European agency Eurojust said Friday.
BERLIN (AP) – Fearing Russia might cut off natural gas supplies, the head of Germany’s regulatory agency for energy called on residents Saturday to save energy and to prepare for winter, when use increases.
NICE, France (AP) – Tourism is booming again in France – and so is COVID-19. French officials have “invited” or “recommended” people to go back to using face masks but stopped short of renewing restrictions that would scare visitors away or revive anti-government protests.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Russian forces are pounding the city of Lysychansk and its surroundings in an all-out attempt to seize the last stronghold of resistance in eastern Ukraine’s Luhansk province, the governor said Saturday.
Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges connected recent Russian missile strikes with G7 and NATO summits, saying Russia was purposely “humiliating the leaders of the West.” he said.
Inflation in countries using the euro set another eye-watering record, pushed higher by a huge increase in energy costs.
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Friday made her first visit to the U.K. since both countries signed a free trade agreement.
The Dutch central bank apologized for the institution’s involvement in the 19th-century slave trade, the latest such expression of contrition.
A medical trade union in Britain will lobby government to provide free abortions for Americans in the wake of the repeal of Roe v. Wade.
Sweden plans to send additional military support to Ukraine, including anti-tank weapons, support weapons and demining equipment.
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki visited the border area on Thursday to mark the completion of a new steel wall.
The lone survivor of a team of Islamic extremists who attack Paris in 2015 was convicted Wednesday of murder.
A flimsy boat sank off Libya’s coast, leaving at least 30 people including women and children missing and feared dead.
Over the course of an extraordinary trial, the lone surviving attacker proclaimed his radicalism, wept, and pleaded with judges to forgive.
Turkey agreed Tuesday to lift its opposition to Sweden and Finland’s application to join NATO, triggered by the war in Ukraine.
Boris Johnson´s bid to rip up parts of the post-Brexit trade deal he signed with the EU has cleared its first hurdle in Parliament.
G7 Leaders pledged Monday to work together to curb climate change while ensuring energy security for their citizens.
Two people were killed and more than 20 were wounded in what the Norwegian security service called an “Islamist terror act.”
Britain is ramping up a feud with the EU by pressing on with a plan to rip up parts of the post-Brexit trade deal it signed with the bloc.
A bullet train collided with an engine in a train station in northeastern Czech Republic Monday, killing one person and injuring five.
The office of Prince Charles denied there was any wrongdoing in accepting bags full of cash as charity donations from a Qatari politician.
The 54-nation group of mostly former UK colonies accepted Togo and Gabon’s membership application on the last day of its summit in Rwanda.
Russia attacked the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv on Sunday morning, striking at least two residential buildings, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said.
U.S. President Joe Biden says that the United States and other G7 leading economies intend to announce a ban on imports of gold from Russia.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson refused to resign and uged the Conservative Party to move on after two thumping special election defeats.
Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez described a deadly migrant rush on the border from Morocco as an attack on Spain’s “territorial integrity”.
A group of MPs in French President Emmanuel Macron’s party will propose a bill to inscribe abortion rights into the country’s constitution.
A gunman opened fire in Oslo’s night-life district early Saturday, killing two people and leaving 10 seriously wounded.
