Britain’s Labour Party won a landslide election victory Friday morning, sweeping the Conservative Party out of power after 14 years in an anti-incumbent revolt that heralded a new era in British politics. Only days into it taking over the rotating presidency of the European Council and Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orbán has drawn the ire of Brussels for his unscheduled visit to Vladimir Putin in Moscow
Read MoreIsrael's PM Benjamin Netanyahu has denied reports of a ceasefire to allow "foreigners out" of south Gaza and "humanitarian aid in.” UN officials say the Gaza Strip is being “strangled” by Israel’s siege. The governing Law and Justice Party wins in exit polls in Poland but could lose power if it’s unable to find a coalition partner in parliament
Read MoreOvernight strikes on Odesa and Mykolaiv and Odesa caused injuries and significant damage - including to an administrative building in Odesa. Grain and corn prices rise due to a Russian blockade of the Black Sea
Read MoreSenior UN officials are hosting Russian envoys in Geneva in a bid to extend an export agreement amid Moscow's invasion of Ukraine and prevent a potential new spike in world food prices. Ukrainian forces repelled several waves of Russian attacks in and around Bakhmut the over the past 24 hours, the military said, as commanders on both sides described the situation in the city in the eastern Donetsk region as "difficult."
Read MoreRussian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu appointed Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov on Wednesday to oversee the military campaign in Ukraine, in the latest shake-up of Moscow's military leadership. The battle for Soledar in eastern Ukraine intensifies
Read MorePresident Volodymyr Zelensky said the long discussion leading to the $60 a barrel price cap on Russian oil has finished "without big decisions." Ukraine's chief negotiator says Russia must withdraw from Ukraine before starting talks
The agreement between Ukraine and Russia moved one step closer with the opening of a Joint Coordination Center in Istanbul. However, as I said on global media, that was one of the easier parts of implementation
Read MoreMore experts are predicting that the current phase of the war in Ukraine may drag on for quite some time. Meanwhile, Canada’s foreign affairs minister is forced to repeatedly apologize for an embarrassing slip up which had one of her senior officials attend Russia Day party
Read MoreHeightened fears of a global food crisis as Russian forces block exports of grain and other food items. Sloviansk in Donetsk comes under Russian fire while Ukraine forces push their opponents back from Kharkiv
Read MoreToday’s update from Ukraine starts with a moving vignette which paints a picture of what is happening in households around the country as excruciatingly painful decisions are made amid the chaos of war…
Read MoreUpdates on Covid-19 from around the world. A worrying patchwork quilt of lockdown rollbacks in the US. The travel industry, especially airlines, head into turbulent skies. Cases in Russian sky-rocket. The WHO signals concern over countries with fragile health systems. And have some of our leaders let us down?
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