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Japan on Tuesday issued an emergency plea for citizens, businesses and local authorities to conserve energy, warning of potential blackouts after a massive earthquake idled several power plants and unseasonably ...

In footage shared on social media last week, a crowd of people in the northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang bang against the windows of a clothing market as they shout ...

Rescuers in China scoured heavily forested slopes on Tuesday with hopes fading of finding any survivors from the 132 people aboard a China Eastern Airlines 600115.SS jet that crashed a day ...

Ukraine’s military warned the public on Tuesday of more indiscriminate Russian shelling of critical infrastructure as U.S. President Joe Biden issued one of his strongest warnings yet that ...

Russia is due to make another dollar-denominated payment to bondholders on Monday after last week defying fears it might not be able or willing to do so, following Western countries’ ...

After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sent global wheat futures soaring, US farmer Vance Ehmke was eager to sell his grain. Local prices shot up roughly 30 per cent to nearly $12 ...

The remaining members of the one shift of technical staff who had been on duty at Chernobyl’s radioactive waste facilities since Russian forces seized the site last month have ...

Russia has withdrawn from peace treaty talks with Japan and frozen joint economic projects related to the disputed Kuril islands due to sanctions imposed by Tokyo over Ukraine, the Russian ...

Ukraine said it would not accept ultimatums from Russia after Moscow demanded it stop defending besieged Mariupol, where hundreds of thousands of civilians are suffering through Russian bombardments laying waste ...

Russia’s foreign ministry said on Monday it had summoned US Ambassador John Sullivan to tell him that President Joe Biden’s calling Russian President Vladimir Putin a “war criminal” ...

The European Union’s foreign ministers disagreed on Monday on whether and how to slap sanctions on Russia’s lucrative energy sector over its invasion of Ukraine, with Germany saying ...

EU foreign and defence ministers on Monday agreed a security strategy meant to boost the bloc’s military clout when war has returned to Europe, establishing a rapid reaction force ...

The UK government is preparing to step in and temporarily run Russian gas giant Gazprom’s GAZP.MM British retail supply arm, Bloomberg News reported on Monday, as companies cut ...

A China Eastern Airlines 600115.SS Boeing 737-800 with 132 people on board crashed in mountains in southern China on a domestic flight on Monday after a sudden descent from cruising altitude. ...

A luxurious super-yacht linked to the owner of Russia’s largest steel pipe maker, who is currently under British and European Union sanctions, docked in Gibraltar on Monday and was ...

Shelling hit a Kyiv shopping centre late on Sunday, killing at least eight people, wrecking nearby buildings and leaving smoking piles of rubble and the twisted wreckage of burned-out cars ...

A Moscow court said on Monday that Meta FB.O was guilty of “extremist activity”, but the ruling will not affect its WhatsApp messenger service, focusing on the U.S. ...

The dream turned into a nightmare for Formula One world champion Max Verstappen in Bahrain on Sunday when Red Bull’s challenge for victory in the season-opening race ended in ...

As many as 1.08 million people in England could be borrowing from a loan shark, more than three times the government’s most recent estimate, according to a report by a ...

The global Financial Stability Board is closely scrutinising the use of cryptoassets during the war in Ukraine after concerns they could be used to evade Western sanctions on Russia. The ...

A Turkish court ruled on Monday that philanthropist Osman Kavala should stay in prison for at least another month as lawyers prepare their final statements in a trial which has ...

Egypt’s pound depreciated by 10.67 per cent on Monday after weeks of pressure on the currency as foreign investors pulled out billions of dollars from its treasury markets after Russia’...

Oil prices jumped more than $3 on Monday, with Brent above $111 a barrel, as European Union nations consider joining the United States in a Russian oil embargo, while a weekend attack ...

The Kremlin said on Monday that peace talks between Russia and Ukraine had not yet made any significant progress. Moscow has accused Kyiv of stalling peace talks by making proposals ...