Vladimir Putin is demanding that Ukraine give up all of the eastern Donbas region, renounce ambitions to join NATO, remain neutral and keep Western troops out of the country, three sources familiar with top-level Kremlin thinking told Reuters.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez warned Tuesday that “difficult hours remain” in the fight against wildfires that have ravaged a record area of land, despite temperatures dropping.
Sweden’s landmark Kiruna Church will begin a two-day trip to a new home yesterday, inching down an Arctic road to save its wooden walls from ground subsidence and the expansion of the world’s largest underground iron ore mine.
The death toll from an unexplained blast last week at a factory in Russia’s Ryazan region has jumped to at least 20, with another 134 people injured, emergency services said yesterday.
Thousands of firefighters backed by the military and water-bombing aircraft yesterday battled dozens of wildfires across Spain and Portugal, as the death toll increased to six since the outbreaks began.
At least 11 people were killed and dozens more injured in a factory blast in a Russian region outside Moscow, Russian authorities said yesterday.
All of Spain was on a heatwave alert yesterday, while the weather agency warned that much of the country was at “very high to extreme risk” from wildfires.
England’s water shortfall was classed as “nationally significant” as it experienced its driest first six months of the year since 1976, the Environment Agency said yesterday.
Vladimir Putin is demanding that Ukraine give up all of the eastern Donbas region, renounce ambitions to join NATO, remain neutral and keep Western troops out of the country, three sources familiar with top-level Kremlin thinking told Reuters.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez warned Tuesday that “difficult hours remain” in the fight against wildfires that have ravaged a record area of land, despite temperatures dropping.
Sweden’s landmark Kiruna Church will begin a two-day trip to a new home yesterday, inching down an Arctic road to save its wooden walls from ground subsidence and the expansion of the world’s largest underground iron ore mine.
The death toll from an unexplained blast last week at a factory in Russia’s Ryazan region has jumped to at least 20, with another 134 people injured, emergency services said yesterday.
Thousands of firefighters backed by the military and water-bombing aircraft yesterday battled dozens of wildfires across Spain and Portugal, as the death toll increased to six since the outbreaks began.
At least 11 people were killed and dozens more injured in a factory blast in a Russian region outside Moscow, Russian authorities said yesterday.
All of Spain was on a heatwave alert yesterday, while the weather agency warned that much of the country was at “very high to extreme risk” from wildfires.
England’s water shortfall was classed as “nationally significant” as it experienced its driest first six months of the year since 1976, the Environment Agency said yesterday.
World food commodity prices rose in July to their highest in over two years, as a jump for vegetable oils and record levels for meat outweighed falling cereal, dairy and sugar prices, the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization said.
A rare first edition of JRR Tolkien’s “The Hobbit” sold for 43,000 pounds ($57,000) at auction on Wednesday, after it was found during a house clearance in southwest England.
