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The Russian Foreign Ministry’s deputy spokesman said on Friday that the country has no intentions to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine, calling Western media reports on the matter a ‘deliberate lie’.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has blasted European Commission Chief Ursula von der Leyen for “attacking” EU unity with a proposed Russian oil ban, saying it crosses a red line.

At least 17 people were injured, most of them lightly, in a strong explosion that rocked a four-story building being renovated in central Madrid on Friday, Spanish authorities said, and rescue teams were searching for people potentially trapped inside. Four people were taken to hospital, one in serious condition, Madrid …

Russian forces have almost encircled Severodonetsk, the easternmost city in Ukraine held by Kyiv, and are trying to storm it, a local official said Friday.

Nearly 25 million tons of grains are stuck in Ukraine and unable to leave the country due to infrastructure challenges and blocked Black Sea ports including Mariupol, a UN food agency official said on Friday. The blockages are seen as a factor behind high food prices which hit a record …

Russia says the move is in retaliation to Denmark’s expulsion of 15 Russian envoys as well as its support of Ukraine.

France will increase its overall financial aid to Ukraine this year to $2 billion from 1.7 billion, President Emmanuel Macron said in a video address to an international donors’ conference in Warsaw. The conference, aimed at helping Ukraine deal with the economic and humanitarian fallout of Russia’s invasion, is hosted …

An international donors conference in Warsaw collecting funds for Ukraine hosted on Thursday raised 6.5 billion dollars to help the war-torn country, Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said. Countries such as Finland, the Czech Republic, Croatia, and others pledged millions of euros to support humanitarian and military efforts in Ukraine …

Germany will end its participation in the European Union training mission in Mali but is ready to continue with a U.N. peacekeeping mission in the country under certain conditions, Defence Minister Christine Lambrecht said on Wednesday. France and allies fighting Islamist militants in Mali earlier this year said they would …

Russia has announced a three-day ceasefire in the besieged Ukrainian port city of Mariupol to allow the evacuation of civilians from a steel plant in the city.

The mayor of the destroyed Ukrainian city of Mariupol said Wednesday that contact was lost with Ukrainian forces holed up in the Azovstal steel plant amid fierce battles with Russian troops.

Denmark and Finland support a European Commission proposal to apply sanctions on Russian oil, the countries’ Prime Ministers told a press conference in Copenhagen on Wednesday.

Twenty-six people were killed in a collision in the Rivne region of western Ukraine involving a bus, a minibus, and a fuel truck that exploded after the crash, the interior ministry said on Wednesday. The bus had been heading to Poland, the ministry said on Facebook. It did not say …

The European Commission proposed a gradual ban on Russian oil imports Wednesday to punish Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine, as Russian forces pounded sites to the east of the country and hit targets in the far west near the EU border.

Sinn Féin, a nationalist party that supports reunification, is predicted to get the post of first minister for the first time. Voters in Northern Ireland are set to go to the polls on Thursday in an election that could make history. This is because Sinn Féin, an Irish nationalist party …

Russia says the illegal Zionist entity is supporting “the neo-Nazi regime in Kiev”, raising the stakes in its tensions with Tel Aviv over the raging war in Ukraine. The argument began after Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, speaking to Italian outlet Mediaset’s Rete 4 channel in an interview released Sunday, …

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree on retaliatory economic sanctions in response to the “unfriendly actions of certain foreign states and international organisations”. According to the decree, Russia will forbid the export of products and raw materials to people and entities that it has sanctioned. The decree also …

Ukrainian authorities were hoping Monday to evacuate more civilians from the besieged southern port city of Mariupol, as Russia’s offensive in the east of Ukraine continued with “active and heavy” fighting. Kyiv said more than 100 civilians were evacuated over the weekend from the sprawling Azovstal plant, the last holdout …

Hundreds of migrants crossed the Channel from France to Britain in small boats on Sunday, the UK Ministry of Defense said, following an 11-day hiatus in the controversial arrivals. The resumption in the journeys, thought to be due to a change in the weather, comes weeks after Britain announced contentious …

The meeting comes two days after Pelosi led a delegation to meet Ukrainian President Zelenskyy in Kyiv to pledge US support. Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the United States House of Representatives, has met Poland’s President Andrzej Duda in Warsaw, two days after becoming the highest-ranking US official to visit …