Russia's state-owned energy supplier, Gazprom, says it is indefintely halting the flow of gas through a key pipeline to Germany. The company says it's discovered "leaks" in a turbine. It was expected to restart deliveries today, after a three-day break f...

Gazprom halted gas flows through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline to Germany Friday, citing a gas leak and providing no time frame for when supplies could be restarted.The state-owned oil firm said supplies would remain halted through Saturday after the leak wa...

A team of inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) arrived at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine on Thursday, Ukrainian state nuclear firm Energoatom said on Telegram. The UN agency's head, Rafael Grossi, visited the site...

Much of Europe and the Northern Hemisphere is battling either wildfires, low water levels, harvest warnings, water use restrictions or a mixture of all these. In Germany, one core focus of the drought is the Rhine River, which ultimately connects the Alps...

After weeks of build-up, Ukraine says it has launched a major counteroffensive to retake territory seized by Russia . Officials in Kyiv said their forces had broken through Moscow’s defenses in several areas of the frontline in the region around the city...

According to the EU border control agency Frontex, almost a million travelers with Russian passports have come to the EU since the war in Ukraine started six months ago. Is it acceptable that Russians can continue travelling to the EU as if the war of ag...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the final leader of the Soviet Union who ended the Cold War without bloodshed, has died in hospital on Tuesday. He was 91. From 1985 until the collapse of the Soviet union in 1991, Gorbachev oversaw a massive overhaul of the country's e...

There is "heavy fighting" in "almost the entire territory" of the southern Ukrainian region of Kherson occupied by Russian troops, Ukraine's presidency said. The clashes were raging after Ukrainian troops on Monday launched a counter-offensive seeking to...

Ukraine's southern military command said Monday that Kyiv had kicked off its much-anticipated counter-offensive to take back the city of Kherson, which Russia took in the early days following the February 24 invasion. Ukrainian public broadcaster Suspline...

Ukraine announced its counter-offensive in the southeast began. After successfully repelling much of Russia's initial invasion in all but the south and east of the country, Ukraine is now trying to regain territorial losses in the southeast to pincer Russ...

wo United States Navy warships are sailing through the Taiwan Strait, in the first such transit since China carried out the largest-ever military drills around Taiwan, following US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to the self-ruled island earlier this m...

Experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency are on their way to Ukraine's occupued Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. IAEA head Rafael Grossi says the...

It has been six months since Russia invaded Ukraine. The US has promised to deliver billions of dollars worth of weapons to Ukraine, and Vladimir Putin had ordered the recruitment of more than 130,000 troops. Meanwhile, NATO members are getting wobbly in...

A drought in the US state of Texas has unveiled the path of an ancient dinosaur. Footprints from the Acrocanthosaurus, a dinosaur that lived 113 million year...

Scarce rain and successive heat waves across Europe have affected river discharges and water levels. In Northern Italy, there hasn't been significant rainfall for months, and snowfall this year was down 70%, resulting in less meltwater. That's led to a dr...