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The Russian city of Orenburg battled rising water levels on Thursday after major rivers across Russia and Kazakhstan burst their banks in the worst flooding seen in the areas in ...

Russia staged a major missile and drone strike on Ukrainian energy infrastructure early on Thursday, damaging substations and power facilities in five regions and causing emergency power cuts for at ...

An early evening Russian missile attack killed four people on Wednesday, including a 10-year-old girl, and injured seven in Odesa district in southern Ukraine, the regional governor said. Oleh Kiper, ...

The top U.S. general in Europe told Congress on Wednesday that Ukraine will run out of artillery shells and air defense interceptors “in fairly short order” without U.S. ...

Floods engulfed cities and towns across Russia and Kazakhstan on Wednesday after Europe’s third-longest river burst its banks, forcing about 110,000 people to evacuate and swamping parts of the Russian ...

Palestinians visited the graves of loved ones killed in the Gaza war and prayed beside the wreckage of a mosque and in shattered streets as the devastating conflict cast a ...

Russia and Kazakhstan ordered more than 100,000 people to evacuate after swiftly melting snow swelled mighty rivers beyond bursting point in the worst flooding in the area for at least 70 years. ...

The U.N. nuclear watchdog’s 35-nation Board of Governors will hold an emergency meeting on Thursday at Ukraine and Russia’s request to discuss attacks on the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear ...

When a Russian attack plunged a Ukrainian thermal power plant into darkness on March 29, 51-year-old Ihor did not have time to think. He grabbed a flashlight and made his way ...

Swiftly melting snow triggered the worst recorded flooding in Russia’s Ural Mountains, forcing thousands of people to flee their homes as some of Europe’s biggest rivers swelled to ...

Russia said Ukraine struck the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station controlled by Russian forces three times on Sunday and demanded the West respond, though Kyiv said it had nothing to do ...

A dam burst in the Russian Urals mountain city of Orsk on Friday and an evacuation was underway, local emergency services said. State news agency TASS quoted the emergencies ministry ...

Arsenal full back Oleksandr Zinchenko says he would return to Ukraine to fight in the defence of his country if called up. The 27-year-old has already donated one million pounds ...

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Friday rejected assertions by French President Emmanuel Macron that Russia would malevolently target the Paris Olympics this summer, calling them absolutely unfounded. Peskov also denied ...

Ukraine attacked Russia’s Morozovsk military air base in the Rostov region, destroying six Russian warplanes in a joint operation conducted by the SBU security service and military, a Kyiv ...

The leadership of Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has asked one of its lawmakers to “clarify” a report that he received money from a pro-Russian news portal, amid ...

Russia and NATO are now in “direct confrontation”, the Kremlin said as the U.S.-led alliance marked its 75th anniversary on Thursday. NATO’s successive waves of eastern enlargement ...

Western European governments have sought to reduce their energy dependence on Russia since the outbreak of the Ukraine war, but when it comes to gas, they have increasingly substituted the ...

Russia said on Wednesday that NATO had returned to a Cold War mindset as the alliance marks its 75th anniversary this week. “Today, in relations with Russia, the bloc has ...

Russia has seen a significant jump in the number of people signing contracts to join the armed forces since last month’s deadly attack on a concert hall near Moscow, ...

Pope Francis on Wednesday issued a fresh appeal for peace in Gaza and Ukraine, deploring the killing of aid workers in an Israeli airstrike and paying tribute to a Ukrainian ...

Russia’s Baltika Breweries has sued four Carlsberg subsidiaries for damages amounting to 6.24 billion Danish crowns ($902 million), Russian court filings showed, as the two parties fight over the future of ...

Ukraine’s top prosecutor said on Tuesday that Russian crimes across occupied Ukrainian territories, including the Bucha massacres, show a pattern of genocidal behaviour that should be tried domestically and ...

Russia’s central bank only considered keeping its key rate unchanged at 16 per cent at the March meeting, as it believes the current decline in inflation pressure is less pronounced ...