European natural gas prices reached their lowest level in at least a decade this week, fuelled by a battle for market share between the world’s largest producers, Russia and the US. PricesRead More…
Anti-establishment 5-Star Movement and Democratic Party (PD) unveiled a shared policy program on Tuesday to serve as the basis of Italy’s new coalition government. An expansionary 2020 budget is at the topRead More…
Boris Johnson wants to resuscitate his predecessor’s deeply unpopular withdrawal agreement with the EU, Nigel Farage has warned, accusing the new prime minister of trying to avoid a no-deal Brexit. The leaderRead More…
Nearly 2,000 kilometers of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, a project to deliver natural gas from Russia to the European Union, now extend along the bottom of the Baltic Sea. “The constructionRead More…
Northern Europeans have traditionally looked down on their American cousins for relying on home air conditioning. However, with temperatures rising they’re starting to feel the heat, and beginning to embrace the AmericanRead More…
Warships and aircraft in Russia’s Pacific Fleet were involved in intense action, simulating a large-scale naval battle in the Sea of Okhotsk. The most spectacular scenes of the drill were caught onRead More…
France has proposed to extend to Iran a credit line of US$15 billion for oil “pre-purchases” in exchange for full compliance with the nuclear deal. According to conservative lawmaker Ali Motahari, the planRead More…
International organizations need to work together for the development of a counter-terrorism front, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said on Tuesday. Speaking at an international conference on counter-terrorism in Minsk, he said thatRead More…
For the first time ever, the European Space Agency was forced to increase the altitude of one of its satellites in order to prevent it from crashing into a cluster of smallRead More…
At least eight children have been stabbed and killed during a “knife attack” on elementary school in Hubei province, China, on the first day of classes following the summer holidays, according toRead More…