Hitting EU targets for heat pumps, solar and wind could wipe out liquefied natural gas (LNG) demand equivalent to twice Qatar’s potential LNG supply, cutting households’ exposure.
What went wrong? Russian missile attack on open-air weapons exhibition exposes catalogue of errors (Ukraine Battlefield update, Day 1,615)Investigators now say the exhibition near Bucha that Russia hit was advertised online, poorly sheltered and held beside civilian homes, exposing how ignored warnings and lax oversight handed Moscow an easy but devastating target.
China became a hub of industrial manufacturing because it was able to produce essentially the same goods as Western countries, but much more cheaply. Something similar is now happening in artificial intelligence.
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Rima Hassan MEP has seen displacement, an Israeli prison, refugee camps, and since becoming a politician just two years ago, has faced 22 legal proceedings. But the Left Franco-Palestinian MEP will not stop denouncing ‘the genocide that is currently taking place’.
Three Epstein-linked men, including Siad, have now died before trial, leaving victims to piece together the network with journalists instead of judges.
Russia’s top Su‑57 fighter crashes near Moscow amid claims of Ukrainian cyber “friendly fire” op (Ukraine Battlefield update, Day 1,612)If Ukraine really hijacked Russian air defences to kill a Su-57 over Moscow while blunting a major push toward Dobropillia, it would mark a sharp escalation in the technological duel shaping the next phase of the war.
The EU has drafted the legal basis to slap visa bans on Russian soldiers, but won’t decide when to make it operational until after the long summer holiday break – when many Russians go to France, Italy and Spain.
Europe fears escalation with Russia, but by clinging to an “old world” mindset it may be quietly losing a war it refuses to acknowledge.
Would I kill Putin? Without hesitation, says a Russian journalist from the Ukrainian front (Ukraine Battlefield update, day 1,611)His battlefield confession exposes a quiet network of exiled Russians funding and fighting for Ukraine, even as Moscow’s propaganda brands them traitors and insists victory in Donbas is still just months away.
The company SpaceX entered the stock market at an unprecedented price, with its plan to move AI into space and transform internet communication. What were its beginnings, and what does its success mean for the planet today?
Ukrainian MP describes how Zelensky’s bid to rein in graft-busting agencies backfired under public pressure, exposing a fierce domestic power struggle that Brussels rarely sees behind Ukraine’s heroic war narrative.
Ukraine’s new commander has three ways to win the war: training, drones and culture change (Ukraine Battlefield update, Day 1,610)Drapatyi’s rise could decide whether exhausted Ukrainian troops get the training, drones and honest leadership they need to hold back Russia’s latest push on Donbas towns and cross‑border strikes.
Behind the outrage over one minister’s words lies a deeper, unspoken reality laid bare by diplomats and experts: Belgrade never really buried the Milošević-era narrative about Kosovo, it just learned to speak it more quietly in Brussels.
As warnings of possible provocations from Moscow pile up, a system of ditches, trenches and bunkers is beginning to take shape along the 950-km border that the Baltic states share with Russia.
Ukrainians can do as they please in the Sea of Azov—and they’re turning it into a graveyard for Russian ships (Ukraine Battlefield update, Day 1,609)Ukraine’s drone war at sea is already driving up wheat and fuel prices, choking Russian exports through the Azov and Black Seas and raising the prospect of a new global food crisis if the blockade holds.
Amid burning refineries, grinding Ukraine warfare is eroding Putin’s power faster than Western sanctions, but it is not easy to foresee when or where a breaking point might come.
A fight over one Kharkiv developer and 143 dirt‑cheap apartments has escalated into a showdown between Ukraine’s embattled anti‑corruption reporters and the law‑enforcement hierarchy tied to President Zelensky’s circle.
With almost the entire government on the chopping block, Ukrainians could soon feel the impact in everything from frontline energy security to schooling in minority regions and already‑strained relations with Poland and Hungary.
Budget negotiations for the EU’s 2028-2034 framework hope to win over member states with increased agency on border and security funding – which could leave room for human rights abuses to continue far from Brussels’ scrutiny
Growing revolt against Ukraine’s top commander sees soldiers shredding his awards (Ukraine Battlefield update, Day 1,608)Kyiv’s real strategic gamble may be whether replacing Syrsky reshapes the entire conduct of the war.