Since March, the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine has been under Russian occupation. Since late July, the largest nuclear plant in Europe...

krainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday said he asked UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to ensure security at the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. Moscow and Kyiv have accused each other of shelling the complex, and the fi...

Ukraine's governor of the Kharkiv Oblast, Oleh Synehubov, reported renewed dawn shelling of the city of Kharkiv on Thursday morning. "At the moment, there are 18 wounded, among them two children; one person died," Synehubov wrote on the Telegram social m...

Around much of the Northern Hemisphere, from Hungary to Hawaii, from the drying Rhine River to the now-recovering Rio Grande, or from Casablanca to Californi...

An ammunitions depot has exploded in Crimea, a week after similar blasts rocked a Russian airbase on the annexed peninsula. The Russian Defence Ministry originally attributed the blasts to a fire at a military warehouse, but now says the damage is the res...

China's central bank ealier today trimming lending rates for the second time this year, taking its key rate down ten points to 2.75 percent. That as latest economic data showed there was need for more stimulus to support the economy. Retail sales and indu...

You may not have heard of most rare earths, but the 17 metallic elements known as rare earths are essential to modern life. They’re in our smartphones, computers, TVs and just about every other electronic device. They also play a major part in plans to cr...

An explosion at a military base in Belarus. A deadly blast at a Russian airbase in Crimea. Moscow says neither were attacks by Ukraine, but Kyiv and its alli...

he Ukrainian air force says that nine Russian warplanes were destroyed in massive explosions at an air base on the Crimean Peninsula, without officially claiming responsibility for the attack.Powerful explosions rocked the Saki air base on the Black Sea o...

Experts say that Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant — Europe's biggest — is "extremely vulnerable" to meltdown after the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said all safety measures had been "violated" by occupying Russian forces...

As Europeans suffer high energy costs and the prospect of a rough winter, some have begun to ask if Western sanctions against Russia were in fact an own goal. On the face of it, Russia’s economy is not going through the meltdown once predicted and Moscow...

China's massive show of force against Taiwan is expected to begin receding after several days of military drills that encircled the self-governing island.Both Chinese and Taiwanese military vessels remain near the median line in the Taiwan Strait. The dri...

Taiwan has accused Beijing of simulating an invasion of the self-governing island as China continued its large-scale military drills. Taipei says the Chinese army sent several warships and aircraft into the Strait of Taiwan on Saturday. The exercises beg...

The first shipment of Ukrainian grain to be shipped since a deal was struck between Ukraine and Russia left the port of Odesa on Monday morning, bound for Lebanon. The Sierra Leone-flagged cargo ship Razoni is the first ship to depart in line with an agre...

Researchers at Yale University say the Russian economy is suffering massive damage due to Western sanctions, despite Moscow downplaying the effect. The authors claim their work casts doubt on Moscow's claims that the economy remains robust and that the We...