Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport limits number of summer passengers
Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport on Thursday set a cap on the number of passengers it will handle during the summer travel season, citing labour shortages.
The move by one of ...
Articles
Italy’s Draghi accuses Russia of lying over Eni gas shortfall
Italian energy giant Eni ENI.MI said it would receive only 65% of the gas supply volumes it had requested from Russia’s Gazprom GAZP.MM on Thursday, with Prime Minister ...
Turkish, Greek defence ministers stress dialogue, Turkish ministry says
Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar met with his Greek counterpart Nikos Panagiotopoulos at the sidelines of a NATO meeting in Brussels and discussed maintaining dialogue to ease recently heightened tensions, ...
ICC prosecutor aims to show war criminals can’t escape justice
The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said on Thursday he hoped his war crimes investigation in Ukraine would show there can be no escape from justice during conflicts.
...
Kyiv says Russia wants to destroy Ukrainian statehood and nation
Russia’s strategic goal in the war in Ukraine is the complete destruction of Ukrainian statehood and the Ukrainian nation, Ukrainian Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Malyar said on Thursday.
She ...
Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyers urge leniency ahead of sex trafficking sentencing
Ghislaine Maxwell should spend fewer, and perhaps far fewer, than 20 years in prison for helping deceased financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse teenage girls, her lawyers said on Wednesday, arguing that ...
Russian gas flows to Europe fall, hindering bid to refill stores
Russian gas supply to Europe via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline fell further on Thursday and Moscow said more delays in repairs could lead to suspending all flows, putting a brake ...
Bitcoin eases from 18-month low as crypto market stabilises
Bitcoin recovered on Wednesday after diving to an 18-month low, buoyed by the US Federal Reserve’s tough stance on inflation even in the midst of a market meltdown this ...
Kremlin hopes EU leaders will not only discuss weapons in Kyiv visit
The Kremlin said it hoped the leaders of France, Germany and Italy would not only discuss weapons supplies in their visit to Kyiv on Thursday, but rather to “push President [...
UK sets out new Russia sanctions for “barbaric treatment of children in Ukraine”
Britain on Thursday said it had sanctioned Russian Children’s Rights Commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova and the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, as part of a new wave ...
Ancient DNA solves mystery over origin of medieval Black Death
Ancient DNA from bubonic plague victims buried in cemeteries on the old Silk Road trade route in Central Asia has helped solve an enduring mystery, pinpointing an area in northern ...
Top producer Russia thwarts move to redefine ‘conflict diamonds’
Russia has torpedoed a Western-backed proposal to discuss whether its diamonds are funding war ahead of an international conflict diamond meeting in Botswana, letters seen by Reuters show.
The rift ...
German, French, Italian leaders in Irpin in show of support
The leaders of France, Germany, Italy and Romania walked amid the ruined buildings of the Ukrainian town of Irpin on Thursday in a show of support which the Kyiv government ...
Oil prices recover on tight supplies, firm demand outlook
Oil prices recovered on Thursday from a steep drop in the previous session, supported by tight oil supply and peak summer consumption, after a hefty US rate hike sparked fears ...
Kyrgios loses cool before toppling Tsitsipas in Halle
Nick Kyrgios was involved in a heated altercation with the umpire over a time violation before composing himself to down world number six Stefanos Tsitsipas 5-7 6-2 6-4 and advance ...
WHO looks into reports of monkeypox virus in semen
The World Health Organisation is looking into reports that the monkeypox virus is present in the semen of patients, exploring the possibility that the disease could be sexually transmitted, a ...
Two U.S. citizens missing, feared captured, in eastern Ukraine -families
Two U.S. citizens who traveled to Ukraine as volunteer fighters against Russian forces have been missing for a week and are feared captured, family members said on Wednesday.
Alexander ...
Brazil police find remains in search for UK journalist, suspect confesses – investigators
Police have found human remains in their search for British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian indigenous expert Bruno Pereira after a suspect confessed to killing them in the Amazon rainforest, ...
Turkish-backed Syrian rebels say U.S.-led coalition carried out helicopter operation
The U.S.-led coalition carried out an early-morning helicopter landing operation in a part of northern Syria held by Turkish-backed rebels, a spokesperson for the rebel group told Reuters ...
Eurozone trade deficit almost doubles in April
The euro zone’s trade deficit almost doubled in April from the previous month after an already record expansion in March, and industrial production increased over the same period on ...
UK PM Boris Johnson suffers blow as second ethics adviser resigns (Updated)
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson suffered a further blow to his authority on Wednesday when his second ethics adviser in less than two years quit his post.
Johnson last week ...
Ukraine defies Russian ultimatum for eastern city, US sends more weapons to Kyiv
Ukraine ignored a Russian ultimatum to surrender the eastern city of Sievierodonetsk on Wednesday as the United States announced more weapons for Kyiv and urged its allies also not to “...
UK pushes on with plan to deport migrants to Rwanda
Britain pressed on with its strategy of deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda on Wednesday and is planning further flights despite a last-minute intervention by European judges that grounded the first ...
Russia says West, unlike China, ‘shoot themselves in the head’ over Ukraine
Russia said on Wednesday that the West had “shot itself in the head” by trying to limit energy imports from the oil and gas fields of Siberia due to the ...