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Ireland’s Prime Minister has told the public that they are in for a “difficult” winter as energy supplies across Europe begin to dwindle

With Ukraine’s seaports blockaded, neighboring Romania has emerged as a main conduit for the war-torn country´s grain exports.

While the vast majority of Europeans support sanctions, less than half do if they mean price rises, which experience suggests they are.

Despite his international pariah status after invading Ukraine, Russian leader Vladimir Putin was a welcome guest at the 14th summit meeting of the BRICS forum on Thursday.

Nike has decided to fully exit Russia three months after suspending operations in the country due to its invasion of Ukraine, the sportswear giant announced Thursday.

Chinese dictator Xi Jinping delivered a keynote address to the BRICS Business Forum on Wednesday that urged foreign investors to “do business in China” despite growing concerns about its costly coronavirus lockdowns, unsteady economy, unfair trade practices, human rights abuses, refusal to condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and territorial aggression.

EU leaders are set to make Ukraine a candidate to join the 27-nation bloc, a first toward full membership that could take years to navigate.

The vast majority of voters say the rising cost of gas is a “serious” problem in President Biden’s America, mere months ahead of the midterm elections, a Rasmussen Reports survey released Tuesday found.

Germany’s Finance Minister has called for the country to keep using nuclear power to ease the ongoing energy crisis, despite one energy tsar in the country labelling it “backwards”.

Russian doubles tennis player Natela Dzalamidze found a simple solution to widespread bans against Russian players in international sports after the invasion of Ukraine: she changed her nationality to Georgian and will therefore be allowed to play at Wimbledon with her Serbian doubles partner, Aleksandra Krunic.

President Joe Biden’s Attorney General Merrick Garland made a surprise visit to Ukraine as major American cities face skyrocketing murder rates and lawlessness. 

The government of India this weekend followed up on its feisty refusal to apologize for buying huge amounts of Russian oil by refusing to apologize for buying huge amounts of Russian coal.

Russian companies have increasingly turned to China and India to sell products originally intended for U.S.-allied markets in recent months due to Western sanctions against Moscow, China’s state-run Global Times reported on Tuesday, noting that these alternative transactions are often settled in local currencies.

Comedian Ben Stiller met fellow actor and current president of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv on Monday to return attention to the ongoing, eight-year-old war between that country and Russia on the occasion of World Refugee Day.

Germany’s leftist Chancellor’s plan to phase out nuclear during an ongoing energy crisis has been slammed as “complete nonsense”.

Russia threatened action after Lithuania began to block sanctioned goods from travelling into the exclave of Kaliningrad.

WASHINGTON (AP) — WNBA star Brittney Griner tried to call her wife nearly a dozen times through the American embassy in Russia on the couple’s fourth anniversary Saturday, but they never connected since the phone line at the embassy was not staffed, Cherelle Griner said Monday.

On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL) argued that President Joe Biden wouldn’t have to ask Saudi Arabia for more oil and could undercut Russia getting its oil revenues back to pre-war levels

Blackburn is calling on the Department of Defense to make more public the activities of Russian proxy militia, known as the Wagner Group.

China’s crude oil imports from Russia broke records in May, notching a 55 percent increase year-on-year and vaulting Russia past Saudi Arabia as the rising industrial super-power’s top supplier of oil.

Climate crazy Germany is now being forced to burn coal for the purpose of generating energy after Russia dramatically reduced the country’s supply of gas.

During this week’s Fox News Channel broadcast of “Sunday Morning Futures,” Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH) called for the de-escalation of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s rhetoric about destroying the United States and Europe.

This week on Fox News Channel’s “Sunday Night in America,” Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) sounded the alarm over the relationship between China and Russia.

Eni joined Qatar’s $28.75 billion project to expand production in the world’s largest natural gas field after Russia cut supplies to Italy.

Germany’s economy minister said that the country will limit the use of gas for electricity production amid concerns about possible shortages.

The incoming commander of the British Army has told his troops to prepare to fight a land war in Europe, citing Russia as a significant threat to peace on the continent.

British PM Boris Johnson said on a surprise visit to Kyiv that “all the evidence” points to Russian forces “taking heavy casualties”.

The EU’s executive recommended making Ukraine a candidate, first step on a long road for the war-torn country to join the bloc.

Joe Biden was intensely braggadocious during the interview taking credit for “saving” the economy with his legislative successes

The Finnish government would resist a surge of illegal immigrants and close the border with Russia while suspending asylum applications. 

The European Commission meets Friday to give its fast-tracked opinion on Ukraine’s bid for EU candidacy, the fastest such decision ever.

Pope Francis has condemned Russian aggression against Ukraine as a “violation of the principle of the self-determination of peoples.”

Police in the Japanese town of Matsudo arrested a 72-year-old man on Wednesday for allegedly attempting to curse Russian leader Vladimir Putin by nailing a straw doll bearing a photo of Putin’s face to a sacred Shinto shrine tree and including a note inside the doll’s breast wishing death to the leader, Kyodo News reported.

Austin announced another $1 billion military aid package for Ukraine, following the third meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group.

China’s state-run Global Times on Thursday warned the United States could “spark World War III” by pushing too hard to decouple from the Chinese minerals industry by developing its own supply.

A Chinese Communist Party regulation signed by dictator Xi Jinping, whose many titles include chairmanship of the Central Military Commission (CMC), greatly expands the mandate of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to conduct “non-war military activities” – a benign-sounding term that happens to be very similar to the language Russian dictator Vladimir Putin employs to describe his invasion of Ukraine.