World / Europe

Ukrainian energy ministry halts electricity exports due to Russian missile strikes 10 Oct 2022 - 07:38 pm

The Ukrainian energy ministry said it will halt exports of electricity to the European Union following Russian missile strikes on energy infrastructure on...

Air France, Airbus face angry families in AF447 crash trial 10 Oct 2022 - 06:56 pm

PARIS: A French criminal court opened the historic manslaughter trial of Air France and planemaker Airbus on Monday, with angry relatives demanding justice...

UK’s Truss doesn’t want solar panels built on farmland 10 Oct 2022 - 06:55 pm

London: British Prime Minister Liz Truss doesn’t support solar panels being built on farmland that can be used to grow food. Blocking or...

London Ambulance Service workers to vote on strike action, says union 10 Oct 2022 - 06:44 pm

London: London's Ambulance Service will ballot its members on whether to carrying out strike action over a pay dispute, the GMB union said...

UN refugee boss warns of 'severe cuts' without immediate new funding 10 Oct 2022 - 06:42 pm

GENEVA: The U.N. refugee agency will have to make "severe cuts" unless it gets extra funding soon, its chief said on Monday, warning...

Russia loses 60% of its seaborne crude market in Europe 10 Oct 2022 - 05:16 pm

Moscow: Russia has lost three-fifths of its seaborne crude sales in Europe since Moscow sent troops into Ukraine in February. That market is...

Red Cross pauses Ukraine field work for security reasons 10 Oct 2022 - 05:07 pm

Geneva: The International Committee of the Red Cross and at least one other aid group paused their field work in Ukraine for security...

Nobel prize for economics goes to Bernanke, Diamond, Dybvig for research on financial crises 10 Oct 2022 - 01:14 pm

STOCKHOLM: Former Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke along with Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig won the 2022 Nobel Economics Prize "for research on...

UK's Kwarteng brings forward budget plans to Oct 31 10 Oct 2022 - 01:06 pm

LONDON: British finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng brought forward his medium-term fiscal plan and the publication of independent budget forecasts to Oct. 31, more...

Explosions rock Kyiv after Putin accuses Ukraine of attack on bridge 10 Oct 2022 - 10:22 am

Kyiv: Massive explosions shook the Ukrainian capital and other cities during the morning rush hour on Monday in apparent Russian revenge strikes after...

Bosnian Serbs rally over alleged vote-rigging by Dodik 09 Oct 2022 - 10:21 pm

SARAJEVO: Thousands of people rallied on Sunday in Bosnia for the second time in a week, alleging that a pro-Russian Bosnian Serb leader...

Scholz, Biden agree Kremlin's nuclear threats 'irresponsible' in phonecall 09 Oct 2022 - 09:20 pm

BERLIN: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and U.S. President Joe Biden spoke by phone on Sunday and agreed the Kremlin's latest nuclear threats were...

Putin says Ukraine planned Crimea bridge explosion, calls it terrorism 09 Oct 2022 - 09:10 pm

Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin said on Sunday that the explosion on a key bridge linking Crimea and the Russian mainland was a terrorist...

Scholz's Social Democrats seen winning state vote in Germany 09 Oct 2022 - 08:05 pm

Berlin: Chancellor Olaf Scholz's center-left Social Democrats were set to win a German state election on Sunday in which the environmentalist Greens and...

Power supply restored to Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant 09 Oct 2022 - 08:03 pm

KYIV: Ukrainian engineers restored the external power supply to the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant on Sunday, Ukraine's state nuclear company Energoatom said on...