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Published on 09/07/2026 – 10:06 GMT+2 Russia has brought in a ban on diesel exports as Moscow seeks to mitigate the impact of a worsening fuel crisis sparked by Ukrainian attacks on energy infrastructure. “A ban on diesel fuel exports has been introduced today,” Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said during a government meeting with President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday. “This will enable us to increase supplies to the domestic market in July”. Kyiv has been ramping up its attacks on Russia’s energy industry in recent months, particularly targeting oil facilities such as refineries, depots, and terminals. The attacks…

France knocked out Morocco in Thursday’s first World Cup quarterfinal with a 2-0 score that meant the same result as when the two countries last faced off four years ago in the semifinals in Qatar. The French were threatening from the opening minutes, creating a flurry of chances on the pitch at Gillette Stadium, near Boston. Despite thirteen efforts before half-time, they were denied by a well-organised Moroccan defence and a vigilant Yassine Bounou, with the score locked at 0-0. The key moment of the first half was a missed penalty by the French captain Kylian Mbappé in the 28th…

She lost the whip for four months last year over her opposition to the government’s welfare reforms — which were significantly watered down after a backbench rebellion. Maskell already has a meeting with Burnham in the diary, and Noah Law, a 2024 intake Labour MP, says he is getting face time too. “I’ve had more quality time with him than I have with any other senior figures or cabinet figures, let alone the prime minister,” Law said, advising Burnham must keep his “ear to the ground” going forward.   MPs have plenty to say — and they want it heard by the people in charge. | Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images 2. Accept disagreement …

Updated: 09/07/2026 – 10:52 GMT+2 “NATO is working well” — Speaking exclusively to Euronews’ Shona Murray as part of our special report live from Ankara, Estonia’s Prime Minister Kristen Michal shares his views on Trump, Russia, European defence and whether NATO is entering a new era. … More

The script (written by yours truly, under the pen name P.D. Allison) is loosely based on the events of this past week and is set in a dystopian hellscape both leads are desperate to destroy — it’s called Brussels. Le Pen and Farage are set to retire if only they can track down the mysterious crypto billionaire Chad Coinman (played by Donald Trump), who has destroyed the international world order. In the first draft, they found him and had him arrested, but to inject a bit of reality into the script, they now join the Coinman empire and do the…

This week’s NATO summit in Ankara was the most anticipated for some time. After five years of war on the continent, and two years of rancour from a confrontational White House, it was the moment for Europe to prove it’s serious about its own defence. At Tuesday’s Industry Defence Forum, European allies heralded $50 billion (€43 billion) of deals for defence production and procurement, covering submarines, Patriot missile defence systems, interceptors, ammunition, all presented as proof that the alliance is on a credible path to spending 5 percent of its GDP on defence by 2035. Among the headline announcements was…

Volkswagen’s plans to cut tens of thousands more jobs and close factories face a key test on Thursday as the groups controlling Europe’s largest carmaker meet to discuss the proposals, while workers stage protests at plants across Germany. Europe’s biggest carmaker is under pressure from US tariffs, weaker profit margins on electric vehicles and, above all, fierce competition in China, the world’s largest car market. Volkswagen, whose 10 brands range from Seat to Porsche, is already cutting 50,000 jobs in Germany by 2030, including 35,000 at its core Volkswagen brand. Those cuts were agreed with unions at the end of…

Drivers in Russia’s Saint Petersburg are facing long queues at petrol stations after weeks of intensified Ukrainian strikes on the country’s energy infrastructure disrupted fuel supplies. Ukraine has stepped up long-range drone attacks on Russian oil refineries, fuel depots and other energy facilities since early June, saying the campaign is aimed at disrupting Moscow’s military logistics and reducing oil revenues that help finance its war effort. At some filling stations in Saint Petersburg, signs indicated that 92 and 95 octane petrol was unavailable, while some stations were closed altogether. Drivers told AFP they were spending hours searching for fuel and…

A Polish court jailed a former Russian opposition activist and his wife for spying for Moscow on Thursday and also accused them of organising a parcel containing explosives. Authorities in Warsaw have warned of Russian sabotage acts in Poland since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine more than four years ago. According to court documents seen by the AFP news agency, Russian citizen Igor R., identified by Russian media as Igor Rogov, was jailed for seven years while his wife Irina was sentenced to three years. The couple, living in Poland since the start of the war in Ukraine in 2022,…

A cluster of mostly smaller NATO allies has committed to a new institution built to finance the West’s military build-up, though the hesitancy of Europe’s heavyweight nations casts doubt over how much financial firepower it can ultimately command. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced the nine founding backers of the Defence, Security and Resilience Bank (DSRB) at the NATO summit in Ankara on Tuesday, calling it a foundation for the allies’ collective security. The signatories, Canada, Albania, Belgium, Greece, Latvia, Luxembourg, Romania, Turkey and Ukraine, will shape the bank’s initial rules before its planned launch in 2027. First proposed in…