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Spain's Pedro Sanchez says his country — and southern Europe more broadly — could provide an answer to the shortfall in gas supplies.

Amid the war with Russia, Ukrainian refugees are drawn to the U.K. because there is a substantial Ukrainian population there.

For the second straight year, inhabitants of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest are being overwhelmed by flooding, with hundreds of thousands of people already affected by waters that are still rising

We follow a chicken from farm to supermarket shelf to see how costs are building up at every stage.

Akiyoshi Chikada, a 96-year-old Japanese man who was formerly interned in Ukraine during World War II, says that history is repeating itself with the Russia-Ukraine War. Chikada was tricked into working at an internment camp in 1945 after Soviet troops promised he was returning to Japan while putting him on a freight train, according to The Mainichi. In July 1946, Chikada was told again that he would be returning home to Japan but actually ended up in Ukraine, which was a part of the Soviet Union at the time.

Lesia Tsurenko is a professional tennis player from Ukraine who is trying to carry on with her career while her country is being invaded by Russia.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says during an address to the Davos summit that 87 people were killed in a Russian attack earlier this month on a military base in a region of northern Ukraine that was earlier reclaimed by Kyiv's forces.

The head of the U.N.’s World Food Program is telling billionaires it’s “time to step up” as the global threat of food insecurity rises because of Russia’s war in Ukraine.

The CEO of Ukrainian state energy giant Naftogaz says OPEC is on the wrong side of history in choosing to stick with Russia to stabilize energy markets.

Olha Hlushchenko - Monday, 23 May 2022, 01:44 Russia's newest ship, the Admiral Makarov, has set off from Sevastopol to join the aggressor's group in the Black Sea. Source: "Pivden" (South) Operational Command on Facebook Quote: "Following the established tradition, the precise work of our units has downed an Orlan-10 reconnaissance drone, flying over the Kherson region - it has fallen along with the irreversible losses of the enemy's forces.

Pressure from the US president can give Prime Minister Fumio Kishida cover to increase military spending to counter China.

Iran’s state TV is reporting that an unidentified member of the country’s powerful Revolutionary Guard has been killed outside his home in Tehran by gunmen on a motorbike

A Michigan man who was being held captive by Russian forces on accusations of being a U.S. spy has been reunited with his family after a rescue mission that included an 18-hour race across Ukraine, officials said.

Russia’s deputy U.N. ambassador says he sees no reason to continue humanitarian aid deliveries from Turkey to rebel-held northwest Syria

Delegates from the United States and four other nations staged a walkout Saturday when a representative from Russia began his opening remarks at a meeting of trade ministers of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation group in the Thai capital, officials said. A Japanese official said Japan's Trade Minister Koichi Hagiuda and his counterparts from the U.S., Australia, New Zealand and Canada walked out of the meeting in Bangkok to protest Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Ritz the cat ran away 16 years ago, and his owners never really gave up hope for his return. A few weeks ago, a woman who had been feeding a stray cat brought it into the vet with a bad injury. It was about to be put down, but a microchip saved its life. Steve Hartman shares more in "On the Road."

Russia wants to sell energy from a seized plant and a man paints anti-war slogans on his shop.

The conflict has become a grinding and bloody affair, with both sides making gains and losses.

Joe Biden’s approval rating dipped to the lowest point of his presidency in May, a new poll shows, with deepening pessimism emerging among members of his own Democratic Party.

With the shadow of neighbouring Russia's war in Ukraine looming large, Finland's conscripts conduct military drills, keeping the rust off their mortars and rifles as the Nordic nation prepares for the worst. Breaking with a long-standing non-alignment in military matters, Finland officially applied to become a member of NATO in response to Russia's invasion.

The price of the condiment is up 10% due to poor harvests and the impact of the war in Ukraine.

The women's and men’s professional tennis tours say they will not award ranking points for Wimbledon this year because of the All England Club’s ban on players from Russia and Belarus over the invasion of Ukraine.

Russian DJ Nina Kraviz will no longer perform at Detroit’s Movement Electronic Music Festival next weekend, event organizers announced Thursday, two days after local Ukrainians issued a letter demanding the DJ to denounce Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Finland and Sweden have long kept a careful balance — and neutral position — between the West and Russia. But that changed after Moscow invaded Ukraine.

Large parts of Spain are under alert as a wave of intense heat sweeps across the country, leaving residents sweltering through May temperatures that rank among the hottest in two decades

Choose your plan ArrowRight The Dow Jones industrial average gained 200 points, or 0.65 percent at the open but remained on track for its ninth straight losing week. AdvertisementJPMorgan said this week that the market is pricing in a 70 percent chance of near-term recession, suggesting investors lack confidence the Fed can contain inflation without triggering a downturn. Fed officials have been attempting to pace increases so as not to smother economic growth, a difficult balance to strike. Asian markets closed higher across the board, led by Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index, which surged nearly 3 percent. European indexes followed suit, with Britain’s FTSE100 and Germany’s DAX climbing nearly 2 percent in midday trading.

Gasum, Finland's state-owned gas wholesaler, said in a statement that natural gas imports from Russia will be halted on Saturday.

The U.N. is warning that 18 million people in Africa’s Sahel region face severe hunger in the next three months

When global economy-watchers talk about the outlook for so-called emerging markets these days, they’re kicking around some alarming terms: They see a toxic cocktail of risks, warn of a train wreck and are braced for a potential cascade of disasters. It’s the fallout from a mix of external shocks and mounting financial troubles washing over low- and middle-income countries, creating perhaps the biggest confluence of challenges since the 1990s, when a series of rolling crises sank economies and to

Norwegian police say a person with a knife has wounded at least three people — one of them critically — in a random attack in a town near Oslo

From a revitalization of NATO to the return of superpower nuclear anxiety, it’s been a breathtaking three months.

Dmitry Skurikhin has listed the Ukrainian towns attacked by Russia on the side of his shopping centre.

A Ukrainian widow speaks at the first war crimes trial and Bush says Iraq invasion was "unjustified".

The burger giant, which is leaving Russia after more than 30 years, has sold its restaurants to a franchisee.

German police say one person has been wounded in a shooting at a high school in the northern city of Bremerhaven

President Biden is traveling to Japan and South Korea this week — his first trip to Asia since taking office. Like presidents before him, he's seeking to reorient U.S. foreign policy toward Asia.

"This is what the demilitarization of Russians by Ukrainian defenders looks like!" Ukraine's Center for Strategic Communication wrote in its caption.

The driver of a car has slammed into a group of 14 cyclists in a village south of Warsaw leaving one person dead and several others seriously injured

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Pakistan’s new Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari have met for the first time and both say they want to strengthen ties between the two countries

A high school student from Ukraine who won’t return home because of war will stay in Michigan and start college.

Russian DJ Nina Kraviz, who is headlining an electronic music festival in Detroit this month, has been asked by Ukrainian Americans living in Metro Detroit to denounce Russian President Vladimir Putin as his forces continue their attacks in Ukraine.

Ukraine wants to exchange them for Russian prisoners of war, but some in Russia want them put on trial.

A 21-year-old Russian soldier facing the first war crimes trial since Moscow invaded Ukraine has pleaded guilty to killing an unarmed civilian.

Dissenting voices in Russia are rare, but one well-known military analyst gave a damning assessment of the invasion this week.

The 30 member countries of the military alliance are expected to take up to two weeks to evaluate the applications.

The moves, driven by security concerns over Russia's war in Ukraine​, come despite Kremlin warnings that doing so would be a "grave mistake."

Here's a list of countries that have banned food exports in the months after the Russia-Ukraine war started, according to the PIIE

The State Department said Tuesday that it still pushing to have regular contact with WNBA star Brittney Griner, who has been detained in Russia for nearly three months.

A Ukrainian beauty blogger's trolls ordeal and sweets driven all the way from Somerset to Ukraine.

Scotland's leader says the Russian war in Ukraine only makes Scotland’s drive for independence from the U.K. more important.

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has welcomed a recent decision to expand Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank

A weapon tested off the coast of California on Saturday achieved hypersonic speed: five times greater than the speed of sound.

Media reports say bus drivers in Tehran went on strike on two major bus lines to demand a 10% wage increase, causing hours of delays in public transportation in the Iranian capital

A Michigan man who was being held captive by Russian forces on accusations of being a U.S. spy has been reunited with his family after a rescue mission that included an 18-hour race across Ukraine, officials said.

Stocks were down slightly to kick off a big week for earnings with the big box retailers reporting results.

The Ukraine war means operating in Russia is no longer "consistent with McDonald's values", the firm says.

McDonald's said Monday that it would sell its business in Russia, a little more than two months after it paused operations in the country due to its invasion of Ukraine. "The humanitarian crisis caused by the war in Ukraine, and the precipitating unpredictable operating environment, have led McDonald's to conclude that continued ownership of the business in Russia is no longer tenable, nor is it consistent with McDonald's values," the company said in a news release. McDonald's has more than 800 restaurants and 62,000 employees in Russia. McDonald's exit from Russia is a bitter end to an era. The company, among the most recognizable symbols of American capitalism, opened its first restaurant in Russia over 30 years ago as the communist Soviet regime was falling apart and Western businesses and ideas infiltrated the Iron Curtain.

Sweden’s prime minister has told her country’s parliament that seeking NATO membership represents “a historic change in our country’s security policy line.”

John Durham's probe led to a single false statements count against Michael Sussmann for allegedly lying to the FBI about possible ties between a Russian-bank and Donald Trump's company.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said Turkey is not “favorable” toward Finland and Sweden joining NATO, but he hasn't ruled it out.

Yemen’s Houthi rebels say the first commercial flight in six years has taken off Monday from the country’s rebel-held capital

A jury has been picked in the trial of a lawyer for the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign who is accused of lying to the FBI as it investigated potential ties between Donald Trump and Russia in 2016.

Ukrainian novelist Andrey Kurkov sits down with us to discuss the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

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Iran has abruptly raised prices as much as 300% for a variety of staples like oil, chicken, milk and eggs.

As the war between Russia and Ukraine shows no signs of slowing down, Ukrainians across their country to to heal as the bury the dead and salvage what is left of villages, towns and cities that have been destroyed by Russians.

Top diplomats from the Group of Seven wealthy nations have gathered in northern Germany for a three-day meeting centered on Russia’s war against Ukraine and the wider impact it is having around the world.

The Senate has confirmed economist Phillip Jefferson to the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors.

The Federal Reserve no longer views the coronavirus pandemic as the biggest threat to the global financial system.

Pale and drawn, the last civilians sheltering in the bunkers beneath the sprawling steel mill in the decimated Ukrainian port city of Mariupol arrived late Sunday night in Zaporizhzhia, the first major Ukrainian city beyond the frontline.

The world’s biggest shipping company, Denmark’s A.

Russian forces pounded targets across Ukraine, taking aim at supply lines for foreign weapons in the west and intensifying an offensive in the east, as the European Union moved Wednesday to further punish Moscow for the war with a proposed ban on oil imports.

Germany and India have signed a series of bilateral agreements that will see the South Asian nation receive 10 billion euros ($10.5 billion) in aid by 2030 to boost the use of clean energy.

Russia has staved off a default on its debt by making a last-minute payment using its precious dollar reserves sitting outside the country.

Inflation has hit a record for the 19 countries that use the euro.

India is in the throes of a record-shattering heat wave that is stunting wheat production.

Apple on Thursday reported quarterly results that topped analysts’ profit projections despite supply shortages, economic fallout from the Russia-Ukraine war and a growth slowdown from the huge sales lift that technology products and service got from pandemic restrictions.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says the global pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine highlight the possibility of big economic shocks in the future.

The U.N. General Assembly has taken a first step to put the five permanent members of the Security Council under the spotlight when they use their veto power.

Russia has been removed as host of the 2023 world championship in men’s ice hockey.

Heavy fighting has taken place in the regions of Donetsk and Lukansk, with attacks taking place in cities such as Avdiivka, Popasna, Krasnohorivka and Mariinka.

Founder of the Ann Arbor-based Operation Face Shield has launched a first aid donation effort for Ukraine.

Japanese officials say the Ukrainian government has removed a photo of Japanese wartime Emperor Hirohito from a video showing him with Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini after Tokyo protested.

Nestled into what are now parks, picnic spots and soccer fields are the scattered remnants of an era gone by. The left behind ruins of when Detroit was on the literal front lines of the Cold War.

The war in Ukraine is far from over after Russian has been sending over more reinforcements.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has urged world finance leaders to “get concrete” as they look for ways to combat a looming crisis over food insecurity around the globe that Russia’s war in Ukraine has made worse.

Nestled into what are now parks, picnic spots and soccer fields are the scattered remnants of an era gone by. The left behind ruins of when Detroit was on the literal front lines of the Cold War.

Amid the nightmare unfolding in Ukraine, a local surgeon goes above and beyond to help. Dr. David Brown, a plastic surgeon with Michigan Medicine, has gathered medical supplies to send them to the warzone.

A U.N. task force warns that Russia’s war on Ukraine threatens to devastate the economies of many developing countries that are now facing even higher food and energy costs and increasingly difficult financial conditions.

Russia’s Defense Ministry promised Friday to ramp up missile attacks on the Ukrainian capital in response to Ukraine’s alleged aggression on Russian territory, an ominous warning that followed Moscow’s stinging symbolic loss of its navy’s flagship in the Black Sea.

The Russian soldiers forced more than 300 villagers into a school basement.

Heartened by Russia’s withdrawal from Ukraine's capital region, residents of the town of Irpin have started coming home, at least to what’s left.

As the war in Ukraine drags on, Detroit police and the Wayne County Sheriff’s Department are doing something to help. Both departments have teamed up with other agencies in Wayne County to send dozens of retired Special Response Team bulletproof vests to those who need them in Ukraine.

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Sirens have gone off in some Polish cities to mark the anniversary of the 2010 presidential plane crash, despite widespread protests that their sound would be unnecessary trauma to scores of refugees from the war in Ukraine.

The United Nations says prices for world food commodities like grains and vegetable oils have reached their highest levels ever because of Russia's war in Ukraine.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says the military alliance would quickly welcome Finland and Sweden into the fold if they decided to apply.

A top official in the global campaign against the use of land mines is urging Russia stop its troops in Ukraine from laying the weapons that too often kill and maim civilians.

Shares are mostly lower in Asia and oil prices have risen after a tech-driven rally on Wall Street.

The former chief prosecutor of U.N. war crimes tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia has called for an international arrest warrant to be issued for Russian President Vladimir Putin.