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Russia is the world’s second-largest crude oil exporter and third-largest exporter of refined petroleum products, making the prospect of gasoline imports politically and economically surprising. Russian President Vladimir Putin over the weekend publicly acknowledged that Russia faces a fuel shortage, saying national gasoline reserves have fallen to 1.7 million metric tons — around 4 percent lower than a year ago. Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak has described imports as one of the government’s key tools for stabilizing the market, while Russian lawmakers last week approved tax changes creating subsidies to help finance gasoline purchases from abroad. The supply squeeze has…
At least four people have been trapped after a four-storey block of flats collapsed in central Athens on Tuesday, the Greek fire brigade said. Emergency services have been deployed to the scene to help with the search and rescue operation and footage shown on local media showed workers walking in the rubble looking for signs of life. It is not immediately clear why the block in the Petralona neighbourhood, which housed seven apartments, collapsed. Construction work was reportedly under way in the building next door, local media reported. This is a developing story and our journalists are working on further…
Published on 30/06/2026 – 19:12 GMT+2•Updated 19:49 The US Supreme Court has struck down an executive order signed by US President Donald Trump that aimed to end automatic birthright citizenship for children born on American soil. A majority of five Justices decided that Trump’s order violated the country’s 14th Amendment. Chief Justice John Roberts joined Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Amy Coney Barrett and Ketanji Brown Jackson in agreeing that the policy was unlawful. Justice Brett Kavanaugh concurred in the judgement but wrote separately that he did not agree that the order violated the 14th Amendment, although he said it…
“This national team plays the way this federal government governs: big on ambition, short on resolve. Everyone struggles on their own, no one takes responsibility, and when luck finally does appear, the goal doesn’t count,” wrote German Member of the European Parliament Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann on X, referring to a controversially disallowed goal made during overtime, which would have brought Germany victory. There is “always a link between sport and politics,” said professor of political science Alexander Straßner — and Europe’s largest economy is no exception. Much like its men’s football team, over the last decade, the country’s automotive sector and…
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has at last presented his government’s Defence Investment Plan, a spending programme that aims to ensure Britain’s military future by raising defence investments to £80 billion (€92.8 billion) a year by 2029. Building and buying stealth fighter jets, submarines and warheads are all on the menu, with £5 billion (€5.8 million) allocated solely for the development of drones, a move Starmer hailed as “the largest ever UK investment in this technology”. “We will build an army that is ten times more lethal, with attack drones flying alongside our Apache helicopters, a new fleet of surveillance…
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Published on 30/06/2026 – 17:21 GMT+2 Nine people linked to a pornography business will stand trial in the Czech Republic on human trafficking charges after prosecutors accused them of promising young women false modelling opportunities before coercing them into appearing in pornographic films. The defendants face up to 12 years in prison if convicted, according to Prague city prosecutors. “The accused include people organising the Czech Casting project, as well as people ensuring finances, casting production and agreements,” prosecutor’s office spokesman Aleš Cimbala said. He added that photographers, camera operators and actors were also among those charged. The defendants deny…
Led by Abu Dhabi-based Masdar, the 1 GW project is among the company’s flagship renewable energy investments in Central Asia. The development will include a battery energy storage system capable of delivering up to 300 MW of power and storing 600 MWh of electricity, making it one of the largest integrated renewable energy projects in Eurasia. The project stems from intergovernmental agreements signed during the COP28 and COP29 climate conferences in 2023 and 2024 and forms part of Masdar’s strategy to build 100 GW of renewable energy capacity worldwide by 2030. Kazakhstan’s vast wind-rich steppes, growing electricity demand and supportive…
After a brutal heatwave that claimed around 1,300 lives in Europe and with a second one approaching at the beginning of July, climate politics are becoming more polarised than ever. Unveiled in 2019, the European Green Deal is built on the premise of consuming less energy, burning fewer fossil fuels and making Europe’s homes more efficient in an effort to prevent future warming by reducing greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs). Yet Brussels’ vision was shaped largely by winter, prioritising how to keep Europeans warm while cutting reliance on imported gas. Then came the heat. As Europeans struggled through scorching temperatures, many…
Published on 30/06/2026 – 16:34 GMT+2 Energy companies ExxonMobil and QatarEnergy signed a “declaration of marketability” with Cyprus in Nicosia on Tuesday, officially declaring two natural gas discoveries off the coast of the island nation as commercially viable. The Glaucus and Pegasus natural gas fields are major ExxonMobil discoveries in Block 10 of Cyprus’s exclusive economic zone, thought to hold more than 7 trillion cubic feet of gas. Speaking after the signing took place, John Ardill, ExxonMobil’s vice president of global exploration, reportedly said natural gas could start flowing from the fields by 2033. “What we should tell ordinary people…