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Watch: Rolling Stones perform with Ukrainian choirs in Vienna

The Rolling Stones shared the stage with two Ukrainian children’s choirs during an emotional performance in Vienna

Russia

Journalist who staged TV protest over Ukraine war briefly detained

Marina Ovsyannikova said she had been released a few hours after her arrest.

Italy

Algeria becomes Italy's biggest gas supplier in new €4bn deal

With his government's fate in limbo, Italian PM Mario Draghi visted Algeria’s capital on Monday to finalise deals boosting Algerian gas supplies to Italy as Europeans brace for a possible cut-off of Russian gas.

Ukraine

Ukraine war: President Zelenskyy fires spy chief and top prosecutor

The Ukrainian president cited the fact that 'more than 60 employees' of the prosecutor’s office and the state security service stayed in occupied territory to work for the Russians.

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Ukraine

Irpin returnees find temporary home in a converted railway carriage

Wife and husband Mila and Yevhen Kagarlytski and their 12-year-old son Vlad share the converted carriage with 25 other families left homeless by the Russian assault on the Kyiv suburb.

Ukraine

Six latest developments linked to Russia's war in Ukraine

From the four-year-old victim of Russia's missile strike on Vinnytsia... to our spotlight on Ukraine's attempts to beat the blockade and export its grain: six key developments today.

Georgia

Russian culture in Georgia: Residents angry about presence of music in capital

Some residents in Georgia's capital, Tbilisi, are angry that they still hear Russian music throughout its streets.

United Kingdom

France donates mobile DNA lab to help Ukraine war crimes investigators

The French mobile laboratory has previously been deployed at the site of the Germanwings crash in the Alps in 2015.

Europe News

EU to target Russian gold in next round of sanctions over Ukraine war

The precious metal constitutes Russia's top export after energy and was worth more €18.5 billion in 2020.

Ukraine

UK holds Russia responsible for death of captured British aid worker

Paul Urey was detained by Russian troops while on a humanitarian aid mission in east Ukraine in April.

Ukraine

Five things to know from Russia's war in Ukraine

From another deadly Russian missile strike on Ukrainian civilians far from the front line... to France's Ukrainian touch on Bastille Day: five key events related to the war.

The Cube

UK bans dating ads offering to meet 'lonely' Ukrainian women

Multiple dating ads promoting to meet 'lonely' Ukrainian women have been banned by a UK watchdog due to their offensive nature.

Ukraine

Russian airstrike kills over 20 people in central city of Vinnytsia

Russian missiles struck a large city in central Ukraine on Thursday, killing more than 20 and wounding another 90, in an attack President Zelenskyy called “an open act of terrorism” against civilians.

Netherlands

Zelenskyy calls for new tribunal at The Hague over Russian war crimes

Political, diplomatic and judicial leaders from around 40 nations gathered in The Hague on Thursday for a conference on accountability for crimes committed in Ukraine since the Russian invasion.

France

Ukraine plays symbolic role in France's Bastille Day parade

The war in Ukraine featured prominently in Bastille Day celebrations in France on Thursday, with thousands of French troops marching down the Champs-Elysees avenue alongside allies from Eastern Europe.

Ukraine

Ukraine war: 10 things you need to know

From optimism (and pessism) over talks to end Russia's grain blockade... to pro-Russian separatist territories reportedly gaining recognition from North Korea: 10 latest developments in the war.

Europe Decoded

Viral video wrongly claims French supermarkets are stockpiling mustard

Conspiracists have baselessly accused the French government of artificially driving up prices amid a global shortage.

Mobility

Europe cuts ties with Russia over Mars rover mission

The European Space Agency has officially terminated a joint European-Russian rover mission to Mars amid political tensions caused by the war in Ukraine.

Ukraine

Two-thirds of Ukraine refugees plan to stay put for now, says UNHCR

Around two-thirds of refugees from Ukraine expect to stay in their host countries until hostilities subside and the security situation improves after Russia's invasion, a survey by the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR has found.

Turkey

UN cautious over Ukraine claim that end to grain blockade is close

Military officials from the two countries are holding their first face-to-face meetings for months in Istanbul, to discuss a UN plan to export grain and ease global shortages.