News over the weekend that Ukraine has gained back territory previously lost to Russia has sent the euro higher across the board. After Russia invaded Ukraine in February, the sentiment on the euro an...
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Vitalik Buterin makes surprise appearance at Kyiv Tech Summit
Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder and face of Ethereum, made an appearance at Kyiv Tech Summit in a show of support for Ukraine amid its ongoing conflict with Russia. As reported by Coindesk, Buterin s...
Ukraine Blames Russia For Power Blackouts As Ukrainian Troops Retake Territory
Topline Ukrainian officials on Sunday accused Russia of causing electric blackouts across much of eastern Ukraine, as Ukraine’s military touts the recapture of critical territory in formerly Russian-o...
The Russian Army Is Losing A Battalion Every Day As Ukrainian Counterattacks Accelerate
Abandoned Russian vehicles near Izium. Via social media The Russian army is losing at least a battalion’s worth of vehicles and men a day as twin Ukrainian counteroffensives roll back Russian territor...
Gas Prices May Spike Again This Winter As Europe Cuts Off Russian Oil, Yellen Says
Topline Gas prices could jump again this winter following a months-long decline in the United States, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned Sunday, as the European Union plans to largely stop buying ...
Russia Admits Retreat As Ukraine Makes First Major Gains In Months
Topline Russian forces retreated from Kharkiv, officials confirmed Saturday morning, as the Ukrainian military reclaimed key territory in a counter-offensive in the eastern region in one of the bigges...
The Ukrainian Army Is Surrounding 10,000 Russian Troops In The East
A Ukrainian soldier with an abandoned Russian BTR-80 armored vehicle in Kharkiv Oblast. Via social media Two days after punching through Russian defenses outside the city of Kharkiv, Ukrainian forces ...
Where Russians go on vacation since the Ukraine war started
There was a time when Western Europe was the destination of choice for Russian tourists. But things have changed. Max, a Russian in his 40s, used to stroll museums in France, enjoy fine cuisine in Ita...
Ukrainian Brigades Have Punched Through Russian Lines Around Kharkiv
Ukrainian troops assault a Russian position in the east. Via social media Eight days after Ukrainian forces counterattacked in southern Ukraine on Aug. 30, advancing miles toward Russian-occupied Kher...
Blinken—On Surprise Visit To Kyiv—Announces $2 Billion In U.S. Military Aid For Ukraine
Topline The U.S. will send $2 billion in military support to Ukraine and its European neighbors threatened by Russia, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced during a visit to Kyiv on Thursday, bo...
Decades Of Human Progress Set Back By Covid, Climate Change And Ukraine War, UN Warns
Topline Global crises like the Covid-19 pandemic, worsening climate change and the war in Ukraine have started to reverse decades of human progress in education, life expectancy and standards of livin...
Oil price falls to lowest since Ukraine invasion in blow to Putin
Putin Oil Price Russia – Sergei Bobylyov/AFP Oil prices have tumbled back to levels last seen before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in a blow to Vladimir Putin and Saudi Arabia as the heavyw...
Putin Warns He’ll Freeze Energy Supplies To The West If Price Caps Are Imposed
Topline Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday doubled down on threats to cut off all energy supplies to Western countries if they impose price caps on its oil and gas exports, ratcheting tensi...
Ukraine Is Attacking Everywhere
Ukrainian troops advance in the south. Via social media The Ukrainian armed forces are attacking along three fronts in the south, east and north, reversing some of the territorial gains the Russian ar...
IAEA Calls For ‘Protection Zone’ Around Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant Amid Fighting In Ukraine
Topline The International Atomic Energy Agency has urged the establishment of a nuclear safety and security protection zone around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine in a report published...
Germany Agrees on Gas Relief Package for Businesses, Consumers
BERLIN—Germany unveiled its third energy crisis relief package this year to shield consumers from soaring prices over the winter, a day after Russia indefinitely suspended gas deliveries to Europe’s l...
Ukraine’s Drones Are Back—And Blowing Up Russian Artillery In The South
A Ukrainian TB-2. Photo via Wikimedia Commons Ukraine’s Turkish-made drones are blowing up Russian equipment in southern Ukraine, helping to clear a path for Ukrainian battalions as they fight their w...
U.S. Farmers Struggle Through Drought To Bring Food To The Table But Face More Challenges Ahead
(top-right) The drought has dragged on for a long time. Last year, orchard farmers in California’s Central Valley destroyed trees that were dying due to lack of water. This year, many more farme...
Huge offshore wind farm Hornsea 2 is fully operational, Orsted says
One of the turbines at the Hornsea 2 offshore wind farm. According to Danish energy firm Orsted, the facility has a capacity of more than 1.3 gigawatts. Orsted A facility described by Danish energy fi...
Russian Executive Maganov—Whose Company Urged End To Ukraine Invasion—Dies After Reportedly Falling Through Hospital Window
Topline Ravil Maganov, the chairman of Russia’s biggest private oil company, Lukoil, died after falling through the window of a hospital in Moscow, Russian media reported on Thursday, a death which co...
Russia Mulls Restarting Production Of Older Fighting Vehicles To Replace Ukraine Losses
TOPSHOT – A photograph taken on May 4, 2022 shows a destroyed Russian BMP-3 infantry fighting … [+] vehicle on a road near Pokrovske, eastern Ukraine amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. ...
Confusion Deepens As The Ukrainian Army Rolls South Toward Kherson
Ukrainian forces advancing in Kherson Oblast. Via social media After more than three months of preparation, the Ukrainian army on Monday launched its highly-anticipated counteroffensive in southern Uk...
G20 faces ‘tough’ negotiations on climate
U.S Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry (right) with President of COP26 Alok Sharma at the G-20 Joint Environment and Climate Ministers’ Meeting in Nusa Dua, Indonesia’s Bali...
Watch The Ukrainian Air Force Lob American Missiles At Russian Radars
A Ukrainian air force MiG-29 launches a HARM. Via social media The Ukrainian air force has armed some of its surviving MiG-29 fighters with American-made High-speed Anti-Radiation Missiles—and is firi...
The EU Vows To Solve Energy Price Problem It Helped To Create
French President Emmanuel Macron (C,L) and Greek Prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis (C,R), flanked … [+] by Malta’s Prime Minister Robert Abela (L), European Commission President Ursula vo...
Stop Genocide In Ukraine By Cancelling All Russian Visas
The Russian passport may soon no longer be a valued item if the EU implements sanctions (Photo by … [+] Vladimir Zivojinovic / AFP) (Photo by VLADIMIR ZIVOJINOVIC/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via G...
U.S. needs miracle to avoid recession, economist Stephen Roach warns
Negative economic growth in the year’s first half may be a foreshock to a much deeper downturn that could last into 2024. Stephen Roach, who served as chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia, warns the ...
Ukraine’s Southern Counteroffensive, Long Rumored, Might Finally Have Begun
Ukrainian forces reportedly in Kherson Oblast. Via social media With a flurry of rockets from American-made launchers, Ukrainian forces in southern Ukraine attacked toward Russian-occupied Kherson on ...
Grenade Through The Sunroof? Disruption For Aerospace And Aviation From Ukraine
Gaining experience in aerospace is difficult. New aircraft typically require years of experimental and operational testing — even small aircraft can take upwards of 10 years to move through the aircra...