Peter Hayden

The export of gas by Russia is currently more than a quarter below the level of a year ago. State gas company Gazprom says gas exports to countries not part of the former Soviet Union fell by 27.6 percent from January to May. In…

A Ukrainian court has sentenced two Russian soldiers to 11 years and six months in prison. Alexander Bobikin and Alexander Ivanov were on trial for shelling rocket launchers into a suburb of Kharkiv, in eastern Ukraine. This would…

It's not just chaos at Schiphol lately. Things go wrong at British and Irish airports, too. The Irish government has asked the Dublin airport operator, DAA, to explain the problems over the weekend. At least a thousand passengers…

Ukrainian farmers have almost completed sowing this spring. The area sown with grains such as wheat is more than a fifth smaller than last year, reports the Ukrainian Ministry of Agriculture. The sowing area is a lot smaller…

British competition regulator CMA has launched a second investigation into Google's advertising practices. The CMA suspects that the part of technology group Alphabet is abusing its dominant position in ad technology and would…

Residents of southern Ukraine can become Russian citizens. Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree facilitating the procedure to become Russian for residents of Ukraine's Kherson and Zaporizhzhya regions, which are partially…

The Russian army claims to have attacked a Ukrainian weapons depot in the Donbas region. There would be American grenades stored. The news has not yet been verified. The shells in the affected weapons depot are said to be intended…

More than 6.5 million people have fled Ukraine since Russia invaded the country on February 24. That's about 500,000 more than 12 days ago when the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) reported that just over 6 million people had left…

The US food and drug watchdog FDA reports that 124 deaths have been linked to complaints about sleep apnea devices from medical technology company Philips. More than 21,000 reports about the devices were also received between April…

The European Central Bank (ECB) wants to force international investment banks serving European customers from London to move more staff to EU member states. According to the head of banking supervision Andrea Enria, after Brexit, too many…