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Kosovo's political crisis has entered a new, increasingly bizarre chapter.

“This is called international robbery,” remarks opposition lawmaker, claiming documents show $229mn has evaporated on island.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Kyiv has reached an agreement with the United States to receive monthly deliveries of Patriot interceptor missiles, just as Kyiv runs out of air defence ammo.

Government says €291mn rescue package intended to provide immediate financial relief and strengthen the resilience of the agricultural sector long-term.

Russia has carried out one of its largest attacks on Ukraine's state-owned energy sector in recent months, striking seven oil and gas production facilities operated by Ukrnafta, part of the Naftogaz Group.

Tech

Bureau 1440, a Russian aerospace company, is developing a low-Earth-orbit broadband network called Rassvet as a domestic alternative to Starlink, the US-built system Russian forces themselves used, informally, earlier in the war...

Russia's Sber is launching crypto trading infrastructure against the backdrop of tightening Western sanctions.

Chances Ukraine would attack logistics of ecommerce giant moved to Russia's neighbour seen as "zero", but dual-use items in stock would be a worry.

Russia's mobile internet 'whitelist' mode - restricting access to a government-approved list of services - has shifted from an emergency drone-defence measure into a permanent feature of daily life, with only 30.5% of mobile sessions in central...

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law on August 4 that for the first time comprehensively regulates the circulation of digital currencies and digital rights in Russia, TASS reported, establishing comprehensive digital currency rules.

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Iran and the UAE are quietly rebuilding trade ties that are helping both sides outlast the war, argues analyst Esfandyar Batmanghelidj.

Ukraine's drone campaign against Russian refineries has rocked not only Russia's own fuel market but those of Central Asia too, Carnegie Politika's Galiya Ibragimova writes, warning the region has little time to avert a full-scale shortage.

Repeated claim a reset with Washington is close at hand has become a domestic political tool rather than a genuine diplomatic goal.

Economic activity data for June confirmed what we saw in the second quarter GDP data: as summer arrived, the Hungarian economy went on holiday.

One of our quirkier rituals is to write every year about why Russians view August as some sort of cursed month and to highlight what could happen this year. What are this year's "unknown unknows?"

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The rebound comes even as expectations of a swift end to the fighting remain low.

Latvia is facing a demographic "triple squeeze" that will leave it with roughly 1.5mn people by 2050, a fifth fewer than today, as old-age dependency rises and pension incomes shrink relative to wages.

A new poll finds corruption now outranks missile strikes as Ukrainians' top concern, while most still oppose Mykhailo Fedorov's dismissal as defence minister.

Trade in goods between Russia and China rose 26.3% year-on-year to $159.2bn in January-July 2026, the Russian Trade Mission in China said on August 7, citing Chinese customs data, Vedomosti reported.

Some 56% of Russians have already decided which party they will vote for in September's State Duma election, according to July survey data from state pollster VTsIOM, Vedomosti reported on August 7.

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Recent arrests across Southeast Asia, starting in Indonesia, have now reached Singapore and have exposed a troubling shift in regional narcotics smuggling originating in Malaysia.

Politicians jockeying for position. Observers see ruling party MPP as in factional turmoil.

Agreement based on Nato-style provision that an attack on one country will be seen as an attack on all three.

EU gas storage is refilling at one of its slowest paces in 15 years, and the numbers say the bloc has almost no chance of reaching its 90% target by November.

Recent verdicts handed down by the Bandung District Court in Indonesia mark the formal conclusion of the first trial phase of one of the most elaborate cross-border human trafficking networks uncovered in Southeast Asia in recent years.

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Dubious rise to the top is questioned. Watchdog says remarks “incompatible with foreign policy vision”.

Tourist visas denied based on highly subjective assessments of financial means and intentions to use “return” section of plane ticket.

The stochastic war continues to escalate into a brutal tit-for-tat missile war with both sides continuously rolling out new and improved weapons that could eventually lead to a direct clash between Nato and Russia.

The tit-for-tat missile war escalated at the weekend after Ukraine hit the largest distribution centre belonging to Wildberries, the “Amazon of Russia.” The Kremlin hit back the next day with a massive drone and missile barrage.

What is in store for Ukraine? There are two starkly different possibilities. It can become Finland — a country that lost a war, lost a tenth of its territory, swallowed neutrality, and then got rich. Or it can become Afghanistan.

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Peter Magyar says the former government was aware for years that Hungary's electricity system was under strain but failed to address the risks.

Electric vehicles displaced about 1.7mn barrels a day (b/d) of oil consumption worldwide in 2025, up from 0.4mn b/d in 2020, according to the International Energy Agency's Global EV Outlook 2026, published in June.

Renewables were the single largest source of global energy-supply growth in 2025, outpacing coal, oil and gas for the first time this century outside a recession year, according to the Energy Institute's Statistical Review of World Energy

China's installed power generation capacity has passed 4 terawatts (TW), the National Energy Administration (NEA) said on June 25 - making it the first country to reach the milestone.

Fires are spreading through difficult and inaccessible terrain, making firefighting operations more challenging.

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