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Russia Ukraine War North Korea FILE - In this photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends a meeting of the Central Military Commission of the ruling Workers' Party in Pyongyang, North Korea, in June 2022. North Korea is reportedly having similar discussions with Luhansk. In 2017, Russia backed sanctions imposed by the U.N. Security Council in response to a North Korean long-range missile test that required member states to repatriate all North Korean workers from their territories within 24 months. North Korea has repeatedly blamed the United States for the crisis in Ukraine, saying the West’s “hegemonic policy” justified Russian military actions in Ukraine to protect itself. North Korea has test-fired more than 30 missiles in 2022 alone, including its first flight test of an intercontinental ballistic missile in nearly five years.

U.S. Air Force tests an unarmed Minuteman 3 intercontinental ballistic missile launched from California. (Aug. 16)

Heavy armor losses in Ukraine forced Russia to pull obsolete tanks out of storage to replace more modern tanks destroyed or damaged in combat.

Shortly before the explosions in the Dzhankoy district of Crimea, Russian forces built up a significant accumulation of air defense systems in the area, the Strategic Committee of the Ukrainian Armed Forces said in a post on Telegram on Aug. 16.

Estonia is removing a Soviet-era monument in a border town in Estonia’s Russian-speaking part with the Baltic country’s prime minister saying it represents a risk for public order.

A bus carrying paramilitary soldiers in Indian-controlled Kashmir has skidded off a mountainous road and rolled down into a river, killing at least six and injuring dozens of others

Instant-noodle makers hope to get the Thai government’s permission to sell their products for about 23 cents instead of 17 cents.

Moscow is scrambling to recalibrate its economy after international sanctions disrupted trade and all but ostracized Russia from the global financial system.

Vladimir Putin is betting Western unity will crumble as gas and food prices surge and winter sets in. Here’s how to prove him wrong.

There's been a surge of interest in green energy funds as Congress allocates $369 billion for climate change funding. Here's what investors need to know.

(Photo by RAMIL SITDIKOV/SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty Images)Nearly six months into a war in Ukraine that Russia can’t seem to decisively win, Russian President Vladimir Putin is bragging this week that Russia’s weapons are decades ahead of competitors.“Many of them are years, maybe decades ahead of their foreign counterparts, and in terms of tactical and technical characteristics they are significantly superior,” Putin said at an annual arms show Monday, according to Interfax.And in an apparent show o

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Monday that Berlin would not back several fellow European countries that have called for an EU-wide move to stop issuing tourist visas to Russian citizens. The nations backing such a ban say that Russians should not be able to take vacations in Europe while Moscow wages war in Ukraine. Finland and Denmark want an EU decision and some EU countries bordering Russia already no longer issue visas to Russians.

Nicholas Evans, the British author of the bestselling novel “The Horse Whisperer,” has died at 72

Police in Moldova’s capital Chisinau are investigating a string of bomb threats at locations including at the country’s supreme court and its international airport

Germany Gas Tax FILE Morning light lights the landfall facility of the Nord Stream 1 Baltic Sea pipeline and the transfer station of the OPAL gas pipeline, the Baltic Sea Pipeline Link, in Lubmin, Germany, Thursday, July 21, 2022. Germans are facing a new tax on natural gas use that could cost the average household several hundred euros a year and is aimed at rescuing importers slammed by Russian cutbacks tied to the war in Ukraine. An association of gas pipeline operators set the level at 2.4 euro cents per kilowatt hour under legislation passed by the German parliament. The gas tax will raise money to compensate importers of Russian gas whose contracts with city utilities do not permit them to pass on the costs of surging natural gas prices. Russia has sharply cut back supplies of natural gas that costs less under long-term contracts, forcing importers to purchase much more expensive gas on the spot market to fulfill their obligations.

Putin "in his heart," would know he is to blame, said James Stavridis, a former NATO official and admiral in the US Navy.

WARSAW, Poland — (AP) — Polish officials were marking their nation's Armed Forces Day holiday on Monday alongside the U.S. army commander in Europe and regular American troops, a symbolic underlining of NATO support for members on the eastern front as Russia wages war nearby in Ukraine. Nearby American, as well as British troops, stood alongside displays of military equipment. The national holiday commemorates Poland’s victory in 1920 over Soviet Russia in a key battle credited with stopping the Bolshevik army’s westward advance. “Years pass, but one thing is constant — when Russia tries to rebuild its empire, it is always an evil empire. The newly named Camp Kosciuszko in Poznan, western Poland, is a shared Polish-U.S. base that becomes the permanent headquarters in Poland for the US Army’s V Corps, and the easternmost U.S. Army base in Europe.

Polish officials are marking their nation’s Armed Forces Day holiday alongside the U.S. army commander in Europe and regular American troops, a symbolic underlining of NATO support for members on the eastern front as Russia wages war nearby in Ukraine.

The fourth quarter will be "the challenge" for Malaysia's economy if the Russia-Ukraine war and China's zero-Covid policy persist, said Zafrul Aziz.

The Kremlin-controlled fighters from Moscow’s sham “Luhansk People’s Republic” (“LPR”) in the Donbas have staged a revolt amid the huge losses of the Russian invaders in the war against Ukraine, Ukrainian army officer Anatoliy Shtefan tweeted on Aug. 15.

Anastasiia Aleksandrova doesn’t even look up from her phone when the thunder of nearby artillery booms through the modest home the 12-year-old shares with her grandparents on the outskirts of Sloviansk in eastern Ukraine. With no one her age left in her neighborhood and classes only online since Russia’s invasion, video games and social media have taken the place of the walks and bike rides she once enjoyed with friends who have since fled. Anastasiia’s retreat into digital technology to cope with the isolation and stress of war that rages on the front line just seven miles (12 kilometers) away is increasingly common among young people in Ukraine’s embattled Donetsk region.

KATERYNA TYSHCHENKO - SUNDAY, 14 AUGUST 2022, 16:27 The Armed Forces of Ukraine landed another strike on the Antonivka road bridge in Kherson Oblast on the night of 13 August. Source: Nataliia Humeniuk, head of the Joint Coordination Press Centre of the Defence Forces of the south of Ukraine, on air during the 24/7 national joint newscast Quote: "Yes, we keep using our firepower to control the transport and logistical vessels on the temporarily occupied territories.

A large wildfire in northeast Spain grew rapidly overnight and was burning out of control

Officials say a truck overturned and fell onto a passenger van in eastern Pakistan during heavy rain, killing 13 people and injuring five

Inflation and the Ukraine war lead to 50% jump in costs.

Hundreds of Nicaraguans have attended Mass under a heavy police presence after the government prohibited a religious procession in the capital amid tensions with the Roman Catholic Church

KATERYNA TYSHCHENKO - SATURDAY, 13 AUGUST 2022, 17:25 Military leadership of the Russian occupying forces in southern Ukraine have moved their posts to the left [eastern] bank of the Dnipro river. Source: Vitalii Kim, Head of the Mykolaiv Oblast Military Administration, on Telegram Quote: "I feel just a bit sorry - but not much - for the stupid orcs [derogatory naming for the Russian forces in Ukraine, - ed.

President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi of Egypt has announced a Cabinet reshuffle to improve his administration’s performance as it faces towering economic challenges stemming largely from Russia’s war in Ukraine

Sanctioned as a co-aggressor in the war on Ukraine, the president of Belarus is crushing dissent at home.

MOSCOW — (AP) — Russia’s gross domestic product contracted 4% in the second quarter of this year, the first full quarter since Russia sent troops into Ukraine, the state statistical service said Friday. The report by the Rosstat service did not analyze why GDP was lower this year than in the same quarter of 2021. But it said there was a 15.3% drop in wholesale trade and a 9.8% contraction in retail trade. Russia had reported sizable GDP increases in the first quarter of 2022 and for the last three quarters of 2021. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.

The Bank of England has projected that the United Kingdom's economy will enter a recession at the end of the year. The Office for National Statistics said Britain’s gross domestic product fell by 0.1% between April and June, down from 0.8% growth in the previous quarter. The statistics office said health spending was the biggest contributor to the fall, as the government scaled down coronavirus testing, contact tracing and vaccination programs. The Bank of England, however, says the U.K. will likely fall into recession later this year as a cost-of-living crisis worsens and inflation rises above the current 9.4%. “The fall in U.K. GDP during the second quarter was largely down to noise,” said James Smith, developed markets economist at ING Economics.

The United Kingdom's economy shrank in the three months to June.

Mexican officials say three inmates are dead following a fight between rival gangs at a prison in Ciudad Juarez, a city across the border from El Paso, Texas

The statement comes after a BBC News investigation uncovered widespread abuse in orphanages.

YEVHEN KIZILOV - THURSDAY, 11 AUGUST 2022, 21:37 Dmitry Medvedev, the former President of Russia and current Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation visited the occupied part of Luhansk Oblast where he held a security meeting on behalf of Vladimir Putin.

"Soldiers are everywhere," says one worker at Zaporizhzhia. "Everyone is actually kept at gunpoint."

A court in Russia on Thursday ordered to place Ovsyannikova under house arrest for nearly two months pending investigation and trial on the charges of spreading false information about Russia's armed forces. If convicted, Ovsyannikova faces up to 10 years in prison under a new law that penalizes statements against the military and that was enacted shortly after Russian troops moved into Ukraine. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko) (Alexander Zemlianichenko)A court in Russia on Thursday ordered a former state TV journalist placed under house arrest for nearly two months pending an investigation and potential trial on charges of spreading false information about Russia’s armed forces. Marina Ovsyannikova was charged over a street protest last month, when she held up a banner that said, “(Russian President Vladimir) Putin is a killer, his soldiers are fascists. After quitting her job, Ovsyannikova became somewhat of an activist, staging antiwar pickets and speaking out publicly against the conflict.

A court in Russia has ordered a former state TV journalist placed under house arrest for nearly two months on charges of spreading false information about Russia’s armed forces.

Torrential rains across southwestern Yemen and the country’s capital of Sanaa have triggered flashfloods and collapsed homes, killing at least 38 people over the past two days

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — (AP) — Estonia decided Thursday to bar people from neigboring Russia with tourist visas from entering the northernmost Baltic country as a consequence of the war in Ukraine. “Russian citizens’ opportunity to visit Estonia in large numbers or to visit Europe through Estonia is incompatible with the meaning of the sanctions we’ve established,” Foreign Minister Urmas Reinsalu was quoted as saying by the Baltic News Service said. The European Union, of which Estonia is a member, already has banned air travel from Russia after it invaded Ukraine. But Russians can still travel by land to Estonia and apparently are then take flights to other European destinations. Poland said Wednesday that it was no longer issuing tourist visas to Russians.

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OLENA ROSHCHINA - THURSDAY, 11 AUGUST 2022, 16:51 The Russian Federation has lost two squadrons of the latest Su-35 fighters in Ukraine, that's about 24 aircraft, and now tolerates the return of the old Su-24M bombers.

Rising fuel costs sparked by Russia's war against Ukraine have put severe financial strain on many in Germany and beyond, raising concerns about a possible winter of discontent. “We will do everything to help citizens get through this difficult time,” Scholz told reporters during his annual summer news conference in Berlin. Asked whether he feared that frustration could boil over into violent protests, Scholz replied, "I don't believe that there will be unrest ... in this country." Scholz has previously denied wrongdoing and claimed not to recall details of his meetings with Warburg officials. “Olaf Scholz needs to explain himself," Frei said in an interview published Thursday by German media group RND.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says his government won’t leave citizens freezing or unable to pay their energy bills but acknowledges his country faces considerable challenges in the coming months.

Bill Clinton told President Joe Biden to set himself up to take credit if inflation decreases ahead of the midterms, sources told The Washington Post.

New pictures show extensive damage to buildings and warplanes after explosions hit the Russian base.

YEVHEN KIZILOV - WEDNESDAY, 10 AUGUST 2022, 22:56 President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has addressed the residents of the territories of Ukraine which had been temporarily occupied by Russia and asked them not to believe the lies spread by the Russian occupiers.

Reports surfaced this week that North Korea could send up to 100,000 tactical troops to Ukraine to help Russia, but one expert argues this is unlikely.

Russian authorities on Wednesday raided the home of a former state TV journalist who quit after making an on-air protest against Moscow's special military operation in Ukraine. The case against Marina Ovsyannikova was launched under a law that penalizes statements against the military. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File) (Alexander Zemlianichenko)Russian authorities on Wednesday detained a former state TV journalist who quit after making an on-air protest against Moscow’s war in Ukraine, and charged her with spreading false information about Russia’s armed forces, her lawyer said on social media. Marina Ovsyannikova was charged over a protest she staged last month, holding a banner that said “(Russian President Vladimir) Putin is a killer, his soldiers are fascists. She made international headlines on March 14, when she appeared behind the anchor of an evening news broadcast holding a poster that said “stop the war, don’t believe the propaganda, they are lying to you here.” She was charged with disparaging the Russian military and fined 30,000 rubles ($270 at the time).

Russia has “almost certainly” established major new ground forces in a village east of Moscow as it seeks to gain the upper hand in its war with Ukraine, according to United Kingdom intelligence. The U.K.’s defense ministry said in a tweet on Wednesday that the Russian government likely plans to pull resources for a large…

Former state TV producer Marina Ovsyannikova's home was raided and she's facing a criminal case under a law forbidding "false information" on Russia's military.

The case against Marina Ovsyannikova was launched under a law, enacted after the Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine, that penalizes statements against the military, lawyer Dmitry Zakhvatov said. Ovsyannikova used to work as a producer with Russian state-funded Channel One. After quitting her job, Ovsyannikova became somewhat of an activist, staging antiwar pickets and speaking out publicly against the conflict. ___Follow the AP’s coverage of the war at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraineCopyright 2022 The Associated Press. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.

Northrop Grumman's Antares rocket is about to get an all-American upgrade with the help of Firefly Aerospace.

President Joe Biden formally welcomed Finland and Sweden joining the NATO alliance Tuesday as he signed the instruments of ratification that delivered the U.S.'s formal backing of the Nordic nations entering the mutual defense pact.

Mothballed coal-fired power stations are cranking back to life in Europe as utilities try to keep the lights on after Russia choked off supplies of natural gas. Even before Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, the region was rocked by a series of supply disruptions that revealed the vulnerabilities of an energy system that’s become more reliant on intermittent wind and solar power in recent years. While the race to avoid winter blackouts and a deep recession requires a return to dirtier fuel so

Samantha Power's job as the top official in charge of U.S. food aid includes a new task since Russia invaded Ukraine — countering Russia's messages abroad.

The OPEC oil cartel and its allies have decided to boost production in September by a much slower pace than in previous months.

U.S. Senators delivered an overwhelming bipartisan vote ratifying NATO membership for Finland and Sweden.

A major U.N. meeting on the landmark Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty is about to begin after a long delay due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The Justice Department says a Russian operative has been charged with using political groups in the United States to advance pro-Russia propaganda.

France’s presidency has focused on global warming, the war in Ukraine and the Iran nuclear deal in relaying details about the controversial dinner in Paris between Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and French President Emmanuel Macron.

An appeals court in Kyiv has reduced to 15 years the life sentence of a Russian soldier convicted in the first war crimes trial since Russia invaded Ukraine in February.

The Biden administration likes to say Russia is isolated internationally because of its invasion of Ukraine.

Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer has welcomed Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Vienna for bilateral talks that focused on migration as well as on the war in Ukraine.

Shell posted record profits Thursday for a second straight quarter as the energy giant benefited from soaring prices of oil and natural gas fueled by Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Russian, French and American leaders are crisscrossing Africa to win support for their positions on the war in Ukraine, waging what some say is the most intense competition for influence on the continent since the Cold War.

Russia's space chief says the country will opt out of the International Space Station after 2024 and focus on building its own orbiting outpost.

The U.S. is sending a high-profile diplomatic delegation to visit the Solomon Islands next week led by Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman and including Ambassador to Australia Caroline Kennedy.

Slovakia's defense minister says his country may consider donating its Soviet-era warplanes to Ukraine.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is criticizing Greece for allegedly violating the terms of a settlement that has governed relations between the rivals for nearly a century.

The Russian central bank diverged from its Western counterparts by slashing its key interest rate just a month after dropping it to where it was before the country sent troops into Ukraine.

The European Union has imposed more sanctions on Russia over the war in Ukraine.

Europe is in an energy crisis, and it means countries will struggle to keep homes warm and industry humming this winter.

Beautiful and serene in a crown of white flowers, 4-year-old Liza, who was killed Thursday by a Russian missile strike, has been buried in central Ukraine.

Financial leaders of the Group of 20 richest and biggest economies agreed on the need to jointly tackle global ills such as inflation and food crises, but failed to bridge differences over the war in Ukraine.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz says Germany’s decision to reactivate coal and oil-fired power plants to relieve energy shortages because of the war in Ukraine is only temporary and his government remains committed to doing “everything” to combat the climate crisis.

Moldova received about 600 million euros in pledges at a donors conference to help the tiny country overcome rising inflation and the impact of Russia’s war in Ukraine.

A British aid worker detained by pro-Russia separatists in Ukraine is reported to have died in captivity.

Top financial officials from the Group of 20 leading rich and developing nations are meeting on the Indonesian island of Bali seeking strategies to counter the repercussions from the war in Ukraine, inflation and other global crises.

Local officials with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s party have met to consider calls to expel former Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder.

Ilona Khomenko was widowed nearly two months ago when her husband died in fighting in Sievierodonetsk in eastern Ukraine.

A woman in eastern Ukraine had gone out to feed the cats when the shelling began in a residential neighborhood.

Lithuania will present a combat drone to Ukraine that was donated by the Turkish manufacturer after a private crowdfunding campaign among ordinary Lithuanians who raised nearly 6 million euros ($6.1 million) for the purpose within days.

A staggering 71 million more people around the world are experiencing poverty as a result of soaring food and energy prices that climbed in the weeks following Russia’s war in Ukraine.

European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen says the 27-nation Europe Union needs to make emergency plans to prepare for a complete cut-off of Russian gas in the wake of the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine.

Despite a massive government crackdown on protests of the invasion of Ukraine, some Russians persist in speaking out against the invasion.

Greece's prime minister says Russia's war in Ukraine is a “turning point” in the course of Europe.

Spain is increasing military spending as it works toward meeting a NATO commitment by dedicating 2% of gross domestic product to defense.

The war in Ukraine has abruptly drawn millions of dollars away from longer-running humanitarian crises.

The U.S. has announced it will provide Ukraine with $820 million in new military aid, including new surface-to-air missile systems and counter-artillery radars to respond to Russia’s heavily reliance on long-range strikes in the war.

The European Union’s executive arm has pledged to draft an emergency plan aimed at helping member countries do without Russian energy in the wake of the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine.

The Czech Republic has decided to reverse plans to halt mining in a key black coal region to help the country safeguard its power supply amid Russia's war in Ukraine.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez says the NATO summit in Madrid this week aims to showcase the Western allies' united front in defense of democratic values in the face of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, while providing a platform to increase the bloc’s deterrence capabilities.

Ukrainian tennis players Anhelina Kalinina and Lesia Tsurenko have won their opening matches at Wimbledon to set up a second-round meeting between the two.

NATO secretary general Jens Stoltenberg says the military alliance wants to increase the strength of its rapid reaction forces from the current 40,000 to over 300,000.

President Joe Biden is aiming to sustain the global alliance punishing Russia for its invasion of Ukraine as he embarks on a five-day trip to Europe.

The head of the United Nations has warned the world faces “catastrophe” because of the growing shortage of food around the globe.

The European Union has announced that it has granted EU candidate status to Moldova, a poor non-NATO Eastern European country bordering war-torn Ukraine, which likely won’t enjoy the perks of full bloc membership for years to come.

Nigeria is grappling with widespread fuel shortages that are forcing motorists to spend hours in lines to buy gas and causing prices to surge for transportation and basic commodities.

Groups representing the oil industry and refiners say a meeting with Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm was productive and should send a signal to markets that the United States is committed to long-term investments in the oil and refining industry.