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Published on 06/07/2026 – 16:27 GMT+2•Updated 16:27 Ukrainian forces carried out a drone strike on an oil refinery in the Russian city of Omsk on Monday, hitting the country’s most important fuel production site more than 2,500km from the Russia-Ukraine border. The Omsk Oil Refinery is Russia’s largest, with a design capacity of around 22 million tonnes of crude oil per year. It produces gasoline, diesel, aviation kerosene and other petroleum products, including fuel used by the Russian military. The facility had previously been considered beyond the reach of Kyiv’s deep‑strike campaign, but according to Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces, Monday’s…
“According to preliminary information, the ELOU-AVT-11 primary oil processing unit with a design capacity of 8.4 million tons of oil per year was hit,” the general staff statement says, referring to partial capacity damage at the refinery. The hit was confirmed by the Ukrainian open-source intelligence project Dnipro. The strike was the farthest Ukrainian drones have penetrated into Russian territory since the war began. Omsk region Governor Vitaly Khotsenko said on the Russian messaging app MAX that Ukraine had attacked the refinery and that Russian air defenses had destroyed most of the drones involved in the strike, according to Reuters.…
Published on 06/07/2026 – 18:19 GMT+2 Hungary’s opposition Fidesz party has called for a demonstration on Thursday after Prime Minister Péter Magyar submitted a constitutional amendment to remove the country’s president, Tamás Sulyok. Magyar, who won a landslide victory in April’s election, ending Viktor Orbán’s 16 years in power, has repeatedly called for the removal of the official appointed by his predecessor, whom he calls “Orbán’s puppet”. Magyar’s amendment, filed on Saturday, states that “the mandate of the incumbent President of the Republic shall terminate on the day following the entry into force of the amendment to the Fundamental Law”.…
Published on 06/07/2026 – 18:14 GMT+2 A series of attacks by Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) near the western border with Chad have razed multiple villages and displaced thousands of people, according to two survivors and the United Nations. The RSF has been at war with the Sudanese army since April 2023, and has been accused by the UN of committing repeated massacres against Darfur’s non-Arab ethnic groups, including the Zaghawa who inhabit the western villages of North Darfur state. According to the UN’s migration agency, more than 3,500 people were displaced on Friday from one village alone, Wadi…
George Cottrell, who spent time in an Arizona prison after pleading guilty to wire fraud, funded the Reform UK leader’s private security, staff, transport, and accommodation in the year before he was elected to the Commons, the Sunday Times newspaper reported over the weekend. Farage also reportedly stayed at 32-year-old Cottrell’s five-story home near Buckingham Palace. The Reform UK leader said in a statement to the Daily Express newspaper Sunday night: “I have done no wrongdoing, followed the rules and I am now considering legal action against The Sunday Times. “It’s now clear the establishment will stop at nothing to…
The European Commission is renewing its push to open Serbia’s accession clusters, arguing that Belgrade has made sufficient progress on a range of reforms to justify advancing its EU membership bid. Ahead of a discussion among EU ambassadors on Wednesday, the Commission has presented member states with an information note outlining why it believes Cluster 3 should be opened after Serbia reversed controversial judicial reforms and made what Brussels describes as progress on media freedom, electoral reforms and alignment with the bloc’s foreign and security policy. The opening of Cluster 3 has been blocked since the Commission first proposed it…
The South Aegean has officially submitted its candidacy for the title of World Region of Gastronomy 2028, vying for one of the most important international distinctions in the fields of gastronomy and sustainable tourism. It is the first Greek region to bid for this specific title of the International Institute of Gastronomy, Culture, Arts and Tourism (IGCAT), (source in Greek)following its designation as European Region of Gastronomy in 2019. The decision to submit the bid was approved by the South Aegean Regional Council, which authorised regional governor George Hatzimarkos to complete the application process, with the aim of boosting the…
Published on 06/07/2026 – 16:37 GMT+2 The European Commission has demanded fairness and transparency in light of FIFA’s controversial decision to reverse the red-card suspension for US striker Folarin Balogun following a personal intervention by US President Donald Trump. Trump called FIFA President Gianni Infantino and asked him to undo Balogun’s suspension, and later thanked Infantino for “reversing a great injustice”. As a result, Balogun has been allowed to play in the US’s upcoming knockout match against Belgium. “We respect the autonomy of sports,” a Commission spokesperson said on Monday in reply to a Euronews question. “We respect the right…
The gender pay gap is evident. In the EU, women earn 11.1% less than men. The gap worsens in retirement. The gender pension gap is significantly higher than the gender pay gap. On average, women pensioners in the EU receive 24.5% less than men, more than twice the pay gap. But why is the pension gap so much larger? How does the gender pay gap compare with the gender pension gap across Europe? And in which countries is the gender pension gap the worst? According to Eurostat, the gender pay gap ranges from -0.8% in Luxembourg to 18.8% in Estonia…
Evidence of one of the world’s earliest places where horse domestication occured has been found in Kazakhstan. Previous archeological discoveries within the Botai culture of Central Asia suggested the practice dated back to 2200 years BCE. New research, however, indictes the process may have begun as early as 3500 years BCE. A history of horses Horses take a very special place in the nomadic culture of the region and were once central to trade, warfare, and migration. Over many centuries, horses symbolised people’s power, wealth and means of transportation. The animals were used to carry settlements across the steppe, feed…