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The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) said the firm was “ responsible for transporting over 80 percent of Russian oil exports, further hampering the Kremlin’s desperate scramble to find buyers for its sanctioned oil.” But a new filing by the U.K. government’s Office for Financial Sanctions Implementation, published Tuesday, lists the Druzhba pipeline among “exempt projects” under the Russia sanctions regime. In recent days, the pipeline has been at the heart of an intense row between Hungary and Brussels over support for Ukraine. Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has accused Kyiv of deliberately stalling repairs to the Ukrainian section of the pipeline after it was damaged in what…
By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI with AP Published on 13/02/2026 – 16:17 GMT+1 Thailand is using a birth control vaccine on elephants in the wild to try and curb a growing problem where human and animal populations encroach on each other. It’s an issue in areas where farms spread into forests, meaning elephants are squeezed out of their natural habitat. The initiative is part of efforts to address confrontations that can turn deadly. As farmers cut down forests to make more farmland, elephants are forced to venture out of their shrinking habitats in search of food. Last year, wild elephants killed 30 people and injured…
“Je pars du principe qu’il n’y a pas d’étiquette politique dans mon travail et si demain Bruno Retailleau fait le même format, j’y serai”, réagit l’influenceuse Farah RK auprès de POLITICO. Loin d’être convaincu, le Syndicat national des journalistes craint des dérives et la multiplication de ce genre de pratiques. “Ce qui est moins légitime, et plus inquiétant, c’est d’essayer de placer chaque journaliste dans un camp : celui des bons, ou celui des mauvais. Et de réserver certaines conférences de presse aux premiers”, écrit-il dans un communiqué. Il pointe aussi le manque de nuance de Jean-Luc Mélenchon dans les…
Armed with just a kayak and a self-built microplastic filter, Kristian Louis Jensen has spent the last decade paddling through the most “pristine places” on our planet. During his Master’s degree in environmental protection, the Inuit scientist developed ‘the Plastsaq’. This citizen-science tool allows kayakers and local communities to collect surface water samples containing debris from items such as abandoned bottles and packaging. “But that work led me to ask a deeper question about the invisible footprint of humanity,” he tells Euronews Green. It is this that inspired his most recent trip, over to a remote glacier in eastern Greenland.…
When Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin visited Trump last year, the U.S. leader complained of the difficulty of building anything at his Irish resort — a problem he mistakenly attributed to Brussels, not Dublin. Next month, Martin can expect warm words from Trump over the Irish ballroom go-ahead. A spokesperson for Martin welcomed the decision but stressed it was a matter for local Clare councilors, not the central government. The largest party on the Clare council, the center-ground Fianna Fáil, is led by Martin. The planning decision is conditional on Trump’s advisers producing a credible plan to safeguard a threatened species…
Scores of illegal luxury mansions have been built in a UNESCO-listed national park in Sierra Leone – and the government has done little or nothing about it, according to a new investigation. At least 50 of these houses have been built or are under construction on land that was rainforest as recently as 2019. This deforestation is “an environmental time bomb that has to be nipped in the bud”, the report warns. The mansions are in the Bio Barray neighbourhood, part of which has been built illegally in the mountainous Western Area Peninsula National Park, which Sierra Leone’s government has…
Auf den Tag genau vier Jahre nach Beginn der russischen Vollinvasion steht die Ukraine weiter im Abnutzungskrieg. Die Frontlinien haben sich kaum verschoben, der Winter war hart, die Bevölkerung erschöpft und ein klares Ende ist nicht in Sicht.Im Gespräch mit Alexander Rodnyansky, ehemaliger Wirtschaftsberater von Präsident Wolodymyr Selenskyj, geht es um die entscheidende Frage: Wer hat im langen Krieg mehr Spielraum – wirtschaftlich, militärisch, politisch? Rodnyansky analysiert die Grenzen der Sanktionspolitik, Russlands fiskalische Reserven, die Rolle von China und Indien – und warum wirtschaftlicher Druck allein Moskau kaum in die Knie zwingen dürfte. Zugleich blickt er auf die Ukraine selbst:…
Ukraine marked four years since Russia’s invasion with a church service in Kyiv. President Volodymyr Zelensky stood beside European leaders and ministers to honour those killed. Candles were lit as prayers were read for soldiers and civilians lost since February 2022. Zelensky said Vladimir Putin had not broken Ukraine and promised to seek a just peace accepted by Ukrainians. The Kremlin signalled the war would continue until its aims are met. European officials, including senior EU figures, reaffirmed financial and military support. Talks led by the United States remain stuck over territory, while fighting grinds on in the east.
Published on 19/02/2026 – 6:00 GMT+1•Updated 13:31 New technologies are unlocking geothermal electricity across much wider parts of Europe, and it could help to reduce the EU’s reliance on polluting fossil fuels. A new report by energy think tank Ember found that 43GW of enhanced geothermal capacity in the EU could be developed for below €100/MWh, which is comparable in cost to coal and gas electricity. While this only represents a fraction of Europe’s total geothermal potential, researchers identified that EU-level deployment could deliver around 301 TWh of electricity every year. This is equivalent to almost half (42 per cent)…
They were speaking in the Ukrainian capital on the fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion. “I invite the Commission to use all the tools we have in the treaty to overcome this, to avoid that everyone can blackmail the European Union,” Costa said. “And we have tools in the treaties.” The pronouncements came after Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who faces an election in April, repeated his threat to block the EU loan, accusing Kyiv of slow-walking repairs to the Druzhba oil pipeline, which was damaged in a Russian drone attack in late January. “It’s not the first time when the…