Russia earned $97bn from oil and gas exports during the first 100 days of the war in Ukraine, according to a new report.
According to the independent Centre For Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA), oil revenues have been falling since March, after many countries shunned Russian energy supplies,...
The Premier League has suspended its six-year deal with Russian broadcaster, Match TV, in response to President Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine.
On Thursday, June 9, all 20 clubs met at the league's annual general meeting and were informed the deal has been shelved due to the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
Match...
Thousands of Donald Trump's supporters, fueled by his claims of voter fraud, flooded the nation's capital to protest the expected certification of Joe Biden's White House victory by the US Congress, and the former president was behind it, an inquiry by Capitol Hill lawmakers has found.
A congressional inquiry on...
A teenage boy who used his drone to help Ukraine's armed forces locate and destroy a huge Russian convoy bearing down on Kyiv in the early days of the war has been hailed as a 'real hero of Ukraine'.
Ukraine's territorial defence unit contacted young drone pilot Andrii Pokrasa early...
Russia has lost its 50th colonel of the war in Ukraine days after two Russian generals were killed in one day.
Artillery commander Lt Col Vladimir Nigmatullin, a 46-year-old father-of-three from Yekaterinburg, was killed on May 31, Daily Mail reports.
His death has been confirmed by his family, adding to the huge growing...
Russian President, Vladimir Putin has threatened to strike 'new targets' if the US supplied long-range missiles to Ukraine, according to Russian state media.
According to Putin, delivering new arms to Kyiv only aims to “drag out the armed conflict for as long as possible,” Putin said in an interview...
The United Nations has changed the Republic of Turkey’s country name at the organization from “Turkey” to “Türkiye”, following a request from Ankara for the change.
UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said that a letter had been received on Wednesday, June 1, from the Turkish foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu addressed to...
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky says Russia now controls 20% of his country.
According to the leader, Russia controls Ukranian territory ‘much greater’ than the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg combined.
His comments come as Russia's war on Ukraine enters its 100th day on Friday, June 3
Vladimir Putin's troops have set their sights...
Following a pair of heinous tragedies, in Buffalo of New York state and most recently Uvalde in Texas, New York governor, Kathy Hochul and state lawmakers announced a deal Tuesday May 31, on a package of bills that will raise the minimum age to buy a semiautomatic rifle to 21...
Denmark's largest energy company has announced that Russia cut off its gas supply on Wednesday, June 1, because it refused to pay in rubles, the latest escalation over European energy amid the war in Ukraine.
This comes after Russia halted natural gas supplies to Finland, Poland, and Bulgaria for refusing a demand to...
The US will only get directly involved in the war against Russia and Putin's government if he attacks NATO, US president, Joe Biden has stated.
According to Biden on Wednesday, June 1, the U.S. will not push for the removal of Russian President Vladimir Putin from power, despite saying in...
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced that his government will introduce new legislation to implement a 'national freeze' on handgun ownership and prevent people from buying and selling handguns anywhere in the country.
'The day this legislation goes into effect it will no longer be possible to buy, sell,...
All 22 bodies have been recovered from the wreckage site of the Tara Air plane that crashed in Nepal's mountainous Mustang district minutes after taking off from the tourist city of Pokhara.
The turboprop Twin Otter 9N-AET plane went missing on Sunday morning, May 29, in the mountainous region of Nepal.
The Canadian-built plane,...
A French journalist has been killed after an armored evacuation vehicle in which he was travelling was hit by shrapnel from a Russian shell in the city of Sievierodonetsk in eastern Ukraine.
BFMTV journalist Frédéric Leclerc-Imhoff, 32, died on Monday, May 30, when shell shrapnel struck the humanitarian aid bus he...
Russia will not use tactical nuclear weapons in the war against Ukraine, Russia's ambassador to Britain has said
Russian president, Vladimir Putin put his nuclear forces on high alert in late February, soon after the invasion of Ukraine, an act which many military analysts saw as a warning of what...
Russian president, Vladimir Putin has lost two more colonels including the country’s 'best paratroop commander' after they were killed in Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Lieutenant colonel Alexander Dosyagayev, 34, was a commander of an airborne assault battalion of the 104th paratrooper regiment.
Troops from his 104th air assault regiment were reportedly in Bucha, the scene of alleged...
Russian politicians are now demanding an 'immediate withdrawal' from Ukraine as 1115 soldiers are fired for refusing to take part in the invasion
Communist deputy Leonid Vasyukevich, 69, a veteran Russian legislator recently issued an appeal to Vladimir Putin to stop military action, bring his troops home, and end the...
A court in the United States has ruled that the $3million mansion in Maryland, near Washington DC, said to belong to former Gambian president, Yahya Jammeh, should be seized from a trust set up by him.
Funds raised by the sale of the house should benefit those who were harmed...
The US is preparing to send advanced, long-range rocket systems that can change the trajectory of the war against Russia , new reports say.
The Biden administration is reportedly planning to send the weapons systems as part of a larger package of military and security assistance to Ukraine, which could...
Russian president, Vladimir Putin's warlord, Ramzan Kadyrov, the leader of the Chechen Republic, has threatened to launch a military attack on Poland in retaliation for its steadfast support for Ukraine.
Recall, that Warsaw has been one of President Zelensky’s strongest allies since the invasion by Russian forces began.
Poland has acted...
All households with a domestic electricity connection will be getting a grant of £400 to help them cope with the rising energy bills.
The new support comes instead of the £200 energy discount people were due to receive from October. The £200 discount had been much-criticised and labelled as a "loan"...
Jack Dorsey will reportedly leave Twitter's board of directors today May 25 - 16 years after co-founding the firm.
He is expected to stand down ahead of the $44billion takeover by Tesla magnate, Elon Musk.
According to the business news website The Street, Dorsey was set to leave Twitter on Wednesday...
A Russian journalist accidentally gave away the position of a Russian supersized mortar in a report from the Donbas, and Ukraine duly blew it up a day later, drone footage has revealed.
Aleksandr Kots, a journalist who is pro-Putin was proudly showing off the 2S4 Tyulpan 240mm self-propelled heavy mortar...
North Korea fired three ballistic missiles early on Wednesday morning, May 25, just hours after US president, Joe Biden left South Korea, South Korea's military has said.
The launches came hours after US President Joe Biden departed for the US on Tuesday evening, May 24 after a five-day trip that...
A Russian Air Force Major General has been killed by Ukrainian forces, making him the highest-ranking fighter pilot to die in the war in Ukraine.
Maj. Gen. Kanamat Botashev, 63, became the 13th general to die in Ukraine when he was hit by a Stinger missile while flying over the...
Russian president, Vladimir Putin survived an assassination attempt not long after starting his war in Ukraine, the country's intelligence chief has claimed.
Kyrylo Budanov claimed Putin was 'attacked.. by representatives of the Caucasus,' a region that includes Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and parts of southern Russia around two months ago.
' Absolutely unsuccessful attempt, but...
Any new talks between South Korea and North Korea must be initiated by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, as the days of appeasing North Korea is over, South Korea's new President Yoon Suk Yeol has said.
North Korea has launched 15 missile tests so far this year -- more...
A Russian soldier has been sentenced to life imprisonment in Ukraine’s first war crimes trial since Moscow declared war against the country in February this year.
21 year old Sergeant Vadim Shishimarin was accused of shooting a Ukrainian civilian in the head in a village in the northeastern Sumy region.
The...
The United States is considering sending special operations forces into Ukraine to help guard the US Embassy in Kyiv, according to new report by the Wall Street Journal.
The war in Ukraine started on February 24 but days before, the US evacuated all its staff from its embassy in Kyiv.
Early...
Women presenters and reporters on TV channels in Afghanistan have been ordered to cover their faces while presenting news on air.
On Sunday, May 22, Afghan female reporters went on air with their faces covered in line with a Taliban order after disobeying the other just a day before.
According to...
Russia has halted its supply of natural gas to Finland, the Finnish state-owned energy firm Gasum has said.
After the EU and US sanctioned Russia over the war, Russia said "unfriendly" countries must pay for gas using the Russian currency, a move the EU considers blackmail.
Finland imports most of its...
Morocco and Spain have reopened the land borders between the north African country and the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla, two years after they were shut due to COVID-19 restrictions and major diplomatic row.
The enclaves on the Mediterranean coast in northern Morocco have the European Union's only land...
A Russian soldier has pleaded guilty to charges of war crimes after he became the first to go on trial in Ukraine over President Vladimir Putin's invasion.
Sergeant Vadim Shishimarin, 21, answered 'yes' when asked by a judge in Kyiv today whether he was guilty of shooting a 62-year-old man in the head in the...
The European Union has unveiled a €210 billion ($221 billion) plan to completely shed itself off Russian oil, coal and gas.
Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February, the EU has sought to reduce its dependence on Russia's vast energy exports which has helped fund Vladimir Putin's military in its war...
The Russian government is planning to leave the WHO and World Trade Organisation as Putin continues to isolate his nation from the West following the invasion of Ukraine.
Moscow's Foreign Ministry yesterday sent a list of international organisations to parliament, with orders to review it and break 'obligations treaties which...
The China Eastern plane that crashed into a mountainside in March 2022, killing 132 people, appears to have been an intentional act, according to a report on Tuesday, May 17.
Flight data from the doomed plane suggests someone in the cockpit pushed the Boeing 737-800 into a "near-vertical" descent while cruising at...
Sweden has officially signed her country's application to join NATO, following Monday's announcement to proceed with the move.
Sweden's s foreign minister Ann Linde, said on Tuesday, "It feels very big, very serious, and it feels like we have arrived at a conclusion which is the best for Sweden. We don’t know...
Netflix is reportedly laying off nearly 150 employees in the coming days due to disappointing earnings and slow revenue growth.
According to a Variety report, the Amazon Prime Video rival might also terminate its contract with contractual contributors.
The layoffs are about 2 per cent of Netflix’s US workforce. “As we explained...
Billionaire Elon Musk said Tuesday that his purchase of Twitter would not go ahead unless he was given assurances on the bots he says plague the platform, further complicating his acrimonious bid for the social media giant.
The chief of SpaceX as well as Tesla, Musk is currently listed by...
The Swedish government has confirmed it intends to apply for membership of Nato, joining neighboring Finland in a similar decision following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to date.
“There is a broad majority in Sweden’s parliament for Sweden to join Nato,” said the prime minister, Magdalena Andersson. “This is the best thing for the security of...
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has declared that victory could be near as Russian forces have become 'bankrupt' and are now facing 'a dead end' in the war.
During an address on Sunday night, May 15, Zelenskyy said his country is starting to see a potential avenue to victory but that they...
A heavily armed 18-year-old white man shot 10 people dead on Saturday at a Buffalo, New York grocery store in a “racially motivated” attack that he live-streamed on camera, authorities said.
The gunman, who was wearing body armor and a helmet, was arrested after the massacre, Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph...
Russia may have lost a third of the invasion force it sent into Ukraine as its offensive continues to struggle in the face of stiff resistance, British military intelligence has said.
In its latest assessment, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said the Russian campaign in the east of Ukraine had...
Russia has threatened Finland with consequences if the Nordic nation goes ahead to join Transatlantic military alliance, NATO.
Finland's president and prime minister, Sauli Niinisto announced support for joining NATO on Thursday, May 12 moving the country a step closer to joining the US-led military alliance.
Finland shares a 800-mile border with...
The lead singer of Russian protest band, Pussy Riot, has escaped house arrest in Moscow by disguising herself as a delivery driver,
Maria Alyokhina was facing a sentence in a penal colony under harsh laws banning criticism in the country. But she was able to evade police in the Russian capital despite...
An iconic painting of Marilyn Monroe by Andy Warhol is now the most expensive piece of 20th Century art ever sold, after it was auctioned for $195m (£158.17m) .
The amount is also the highest ever paid for an American work of art.
The painting, Shot Sage Blue Marilyn, was painted...
Ukraine’s armed forces has said that a Russian “parade boat” used by Vladimir Putin to inspect naval fleets has been destroyed.
The Raptor-class patrol vessel was targeted by a laser-guided bomb dropped from a Ukraine-operated Bayraktar TB2 drone near Snake Island in the Black Sea on 8 May, the Ukrainian ministry of...
Russian president, Vladimir Putin ''did not make any escalatory statement in the Russian President's Victory Day speech Monday, May 9, because he"has recognized he has no victory to celebrate," US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield has said.
During a speech commemorating Russia's defeat of Nazi Germany at the end...
Sixty persons have been feared killed after a Russian air raid on a school in eastern Ukraine.
The governor of the Luhansk region, Serhiy Haidai said two people have been confirmed dead after Russian forces dropped a bomb on the school, and 30 civilians had been pulled from the debris,...
Authoritarian Belarusian leader and Vladimir Putin's ally, Alexander Lukashenko, has defended the war in Ukraine but rallied against suggestions that Russia might use nuclear weapons against Ukraine.
Russian strongman, Vladimir Putin helped Lukashenko cling to power in 2020 after his widely disputed presidential re-election sparked mass protests in Belarus and...
A Russian woman woman faces prosecution after she sewed her mouth shut in protest about censorship of protests against Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Nadezhda Sayfutdinova, an activist in her 30s, had sewn her own mouth shut, before taking to the streets of the city in a one-woman protest.
She held up a...
Kyiv officials have accused Russian soldiers of raping Ukrainian men and boys as well as women amid an ongoing investigation into dozens of cases.
Speaking on Tuesday May 3, UN special representative on sexual violence in war Pramila Patten, warned cases already under investigation were just 'the tip of the iceberg.
'I have received...
US and Western officials believe that Russian President Vladimir Putin could formally declare war on Ukraine as soon as May 9, to pave way for the full mobilization of Russia’s reserve forces as they attempt to conquer eastern and southern Ukraine.
In Russia, May 9, is known as “Victory Day,”...
Israel has reacted with fury after Russia's foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov claimed that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler "had Jewish blood", when trying to justify the invasion of Ukraine .
Sergei Lavrov (pictured top left) made the comments to try to justify Vladimir Putin's portrayal of Ukraine as a "Nazi" country...
A UK parliament member has alleged that he was ‘regularly touched up’ by senior gay lawmakers when he was first elected.
As stories mount in Westminster over an alleged culture of misogyny and bullying, Chris Bryant, who chairs the standards committee, claims at least four unnamed male gay MPs, who...
U.S. House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi made a surprise visit to war torn Ukraine to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv, to offer American support amid Russia's invasion of the nation.
Pelosi, who is second in line to the presidency after the vice president, was joined at the meeting...
