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The cat and mouse game of Russia sanctions

REUTERS 2022-07-17 12:32:54

Bill Browder used to style himself as President Vladimir Putin’s biggest enemy. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and jailed opposition politician Alexei Navalny, who accuses the Russian...

Wildfires rage in France, Spain as heatwaves sear Europe

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-07-17 11:12:53

Wildfires raged in southwestern France and Spain on Saturday, forcing thousands of people to be evacuated from their homes as blistering summer temperatures put authorities on alert in parts of Europe...

Wildfires rage in France and Spain as heatwaves sweep Europe

-- 2022-07-16 20:17:14

Wildfires raged in southwestern France and Spain on Saturday, forcing thousands of people to be evacuated from their homes as blistering summer temperatures put authorities on alert in parts of Europe...

Russia imposes sanctions against 384 Japanese lawmakers

-- 2022-07-16 18:22:25

Russia on Friday imposed sanctions against 384 members of Japan's parliament, the foreign ministry said in a statement. According to Reuters, Moscow said the measures were taken against those who had...

Russia resumes long-range bombardment of Ukrainian cities

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-07-16 15:25:50

Russian forces shelled the southern Ukrainian city of Nikopol on Saturday, the latest in a series of bombardments of urban areas that has killed at least 37 people in the last three days and wounded s...

National emergency declared after UK's first red extreme heat warning

-- 2022-07-16 14:25:06

A national emergency has been declared after a red extreme heat warning was issued for the first time, as temperatures could hit 40C (104F). The Met Office's highest warning covers an area in...

EU set to adopt new Russia sanctions 

-- 2022-07-15 18:44:06

The European Commission is set to adopt on Friday its seventh package of sanctions against Russia, which will add a ban on the import of Russian gold and tweak existing restrictive measures to avoid h...

UK declares national emergency as record temperatures predicted

-- 2022-07-15 16:52:32

Britain's Met Office weather forecaster on Friday declared a national emergency, issuing a red 'Extreme Heat' warning for parts of England for Monday and Tuesday next week when temperatures could reac...

Italy left in political limbo, early election beckons

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-07-15 16:05:38

Italy might need early elections to overcome a political impasse, government officials said on Friday, after Prime Minister Mario Draghi tendered his resignation in the wake of a mutiny by a coalition...

Rishi Sunak wins biggest backing in first round of voting in UK leadership

-- 2022-07-14 19:47:16

Britain’s former finance minister Rishi Sunak won the biggest backing from Conservative lawmakers on Wednesday in the first vote to choose who will succeed Boris Johnson as party leader and Brit...

Hidden Van Gogh self-portrait found behind painting in Scotland

-- 2022-07-14 19:42:53

A self-portrait of Dutch post-Impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh has been uncovered hidden behind one of his paintings.National Galleries of Scotland said on Thursday art conservators made the disc...

Kyiv says Russian missile strike on central Ukraine kills 20 civilians

-- 2022-07-14 19:28:00

At least 20 civilians were killed and dozens wounded on Thursday in a Russian cruise missile strike on the central Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia by a submarine in the Black Sea, Ukrainian officials said...

G7’s attempt to cap oil price risks higher prices: Russia

-- 2022-07-14 18:30:13

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday that attempts by the Group of Seven to cap oil prices may in fact cause them to rise. "Those plans are anti-market and risky," sh...

Scorching heatwave sparks wildfires in Europe

-- 2022-07-14 18:05:20

Thousands of firefighters battled more than 20 blazes that raged on Wednesday across Portugal and western Spain, menacing villages and disrupting tourists' holidays amid a heatwave that pushed tempera...

Poll shows Penny Mordaunt would win runoff to become next UK PM

-- 2022-07-13 19:50:22

British minister Penny Mordaunt would win a runoff to become the next leader of the Conservative Party and prime minister if she makes it to the final two candidates, a poll by Yougov showed on Wednes...

Eight candidates nominated to succeed UK PM Johnson

-- 2022-07-13 09:36:38

Eight candidates will compete to replace Boris Johnson as Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party, the committee in charge of organising the leadership contest said on Tuesday. The nomina...

Ukrainian rockets hit Russian-controlled area, Kyiv readies counter-attack

-- 2022-07-12 23:38:27

Ukraine said on Tuesday it had carried out a long-range rocket strike against Russian forces and military equipment in southern Ukraine, territory it says it is planning to retake in a counter-offensi...

UK’s ex-finance minister Sunak launches bid to be PM

-- 2022-07-12 18:50:25

Ex-finance minister Rishi Sunak, the favourite to become Britain's next prime minister, kicked off his campaign on Tuesday promising "honesty", in an increasingly testy and divisive battle to succeed...

London's Heathrow airport caps departing passengers at 100,000 a day

-- 2022-07-12 18:15:41

London's Heathrow said it would cap the number of departing passengers at 100,000 a day this summer to try to limit traveller disruptions as it struggles to cope with a rebound in demand. Airlines at...

European Union so far freezes Russian assets worth $13.83b

-- 2022-07-12 17:45:08

The European Union has so far frozen 13.8 billion euros ($13.83 billion) worth of assets held by Russian oligarchs, other individuals and entities sanctioned for Moscow's war against Ukraine, the bloc...

New UK prime minister to be announced on Sept 5

-- 2022-07-12 13:02:43

Britain's new prime minister will be announced on September 5, with the first votes to begin eliminating candidates in a crowded and increasingly unpredictable and divisive contest to replace Boris Jo...

France's Prime Minister survives no-confidence vote

-- 2022-07-12 08:25:18

French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne on Monday comfortably survived a motion of no-confidence brought against her by a broad alliance of left-wing opponents. An official vote count showed 146 lawmak...

Putin extends fast-track Russian citizenship to all Ukraine

-- 2022-07-11 20:48:56

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Monday expanding a fast-track procedure to receive Russian citizenship to all Ukrainians, in yet another effort to expand Moscow's influence in war-...

The views of the frontrunners to succeed Johnson as UK PM

-- 2022-07-11 19:30:40

The race to succeed Boris Johnson as British prime minister has begun, with 11 candidates so far putting themselves forward for a contest which will ultimately be decided by around 200,000 Conservativ...

Ukraine aims to amass 'million-strong army' to recapture south: defence minister

-- 2022-07-11 17:26:59

Ukraine plans a "million-strong army" equipped with Nato weapons to retake the south of the country from occupying Russians, the defence minister says. Retaking the areas around the Black Sea coast w...

Ukraine tells residents to leave occupied south due to counter-attack plans

-- 2022-07-11 09:52:29

Ukraine's deputy prime minister on Sunday urged civilians in the Russian-occupied southern region of Kherson to urgently evacuate as Ukraine's armed forces were preparing a counter-attack there, repor...

Candidates jostle to replace Johnson in packed race

-- 2022-07-10 22:02:33

The contest to replace British Prime Minister Boris Johnson gathered pace on Sunday as five more candidates declared their intention to run, with many pledging lower taxes and a clean start from Johns...

Zelenskiy fires Ukraine's envoy to Germany, India and three other countries

-- 2022-07-10 16:12:47

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday that he had dismissed several of Kyiv's senior envoys abroad, including the country's outspoken ambassador to Germany. Zelenskiy announced the...

Russian rockets wreck apartment block in Ukraine's Donbas, killing six

-- 2022-07-10 16:03:39

At least six people have been killed and more than 30 are feared trapped after Russian Uragan rockets hit a five-storey apartment block in Ukraine's Donetsk region, leading to the building collapsing,...

Moscow city councillor gets seven years' jail for anti-war comment

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-07-09 12:30:49

A Moscow district councillor was jailed for seven years on Friday for criticising Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in what a Kremlin-critical lawyer said was the first case of anyone going to prison unde...