IMO committee debates cleaner fuel rules for Arctic shipping

As melting Arctic sea ice opens new maritime routes, four countries are pressing the International Maritime Organization to require cleaner fuels for ships operating in polar waters, aiming to curb black carbon emissions that accelerate ice loss. Denmark, France, Germany and the Solomon Islands have submitted a proposal to the IMO’s......

Orbán describes Ukraine as an enemy during election campaign speech

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has sparked controversy after publicly referring to Ukraine as an “enemy” during a campaign speech ahead of the country’s parliamentary elections. Speaking at a political rally in the western city of Szombathely, Orbán accused Ukrainian authorities of pressuring European......

Global economies and their leading companies

A closer look at the world’s largest economies reveals a fascinating paradox: the biggest countries by GDP do not always host the largest companies by market value. In some cases, a single corporation can rival or even surpass the economic output of entire nations. For instance, the United States, with a GDP of $30.6 trillion, hosts......

Estonia bars additional Russian veterans from Schengen travel

Estonia has imposed entry bans on 1,073 additional Russian fighters who took part in the war against Ukraine, blocking their access to the Schengen area in a move that significantly expands Tallinn’s efforts to restrict the movement of combatants linked to Moscow’s military campaign. The decision was announced by Interior Minister......

Ukrainian energy network hit by major russian attack

Ukraine faced a new wave of large-scale attacks on its energy infrastructure on Saturday, leading to widespread power outages across much of the country, according to the national electricity operator. The company reported that emergency cuts were implemented in most regions after damage was recorded at several key facilities. The strikes......

Zelensky announces next Ukraine peace talks likely in United States soon

President Volodymyr Zelensky revealed Thursday that the next round of trilateral peace negotiations between Ukraine, Russia, and the United States will probably occur on American soil in the near future. The announcement follows two days of US-mediated talks in the United Arab Emirates that secured a prisoner exchange but yielded no breakthrough......

Zelensky criticizes air defense after massive Russian drone barrage

Russia unleashed 328 attack drones and seven missiles against Ukraine overnight on February 6, marking one of the largest aerial assaults in recent weeks and prompting President Volodymyr Zelensky to publicly criticize his own air force's performance. The barrage killed at least two civilians, a married couple in Zaporizhzhia region and......

Russian GRU general shot in Moscow assassination attempt

Deputy chief of Russia's military intelligence service, GRU, Lieutenant General Vladimir Alekseïev sustained multiple gunshot wounds outside a Moscow residential building Friday, the Russian Investigative Committee reported. Emergency services rushed the general to hospital while the shooter fled the scene. State media placed the......

Ukrainian civilian plane with minigun downs nearly 150 Russian drones

French television channel TF1 recently aired striking footage of a modified Soviet-era Antonov An-28 turboprop plane operated by Ukrainian civilian volunteers. This repurposed passenger aircraft has become one of Ukraine's most effective platforms for intercepting Russian Shahed drones, with its crew claiming to have shot down nearly 150......

Finland urges US to avoid calling Ukraine commitments 'like Article 5'

Finland has quietly pressed the United States not to describe potential future security commitments to Ukraine as similar to NATO's Article 5, warning such language risks undermining the alliance's core collective defense principle, according to a State Department cable obtained by Politico. Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen......

German chancellor Merz tours Gulf to diversify from US LNG dependence

Europe's reliance on liquefied natural gas from the United States and Russia surged to nearly 80 percent in January 2026, per Kpler analytics data, alarming European officials over the bloc's failure to diversify suppliers despite years of post-Ukraine invasion efforts. The United States accounted for 60 percent of EU LNG imports......

EU Russian LNG imports rise 8% in January despite looming ban

European imports of liquefied natural gas from Russia's flagship Yamal terminal jumped 8 percent year-over-year in January 2026, reaching nearly 1.7 million metric tons, according to data released this week by German environmental watchdog Urgewald. The increase comes less than a year before the EU's planned ban on Russian LNG takes......

Taiwan president affirms 'rock solid' US ties after Trump-Xi call

Chinese President Xi Jinping told U.S. President Donald Trump during a Wednesday phone call that Taiwan stands as "the most important issue" in China-U.S. relations and urged Washington to handle arms sales to the island "with prudence," according to a Chinese Foreign Ministry readout. Trump called the discussion "excellent"......

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