Russia 'choking' EU over new gas pipeline, UK says

The annual inflation rate in the 19-country Eurozone was 8.9 percent in July, with high energy prices and food contributing the most to the overall inflation rate, at 4.02 and 2.08 percent, respectively.

Serbia's president Aleksandar Vučić and Kosovo's prime minster Albin Kurti met in Brussels with the EU's foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, in the hopes of finding a solution the recent spike in tensions between the two sides.

Russian state nuclear operator responds to the opinion piece titled "How scary is threat to Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant?"

The former Soviet states of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan have retained close ties with Russia since 1989. Yet this consensus may be shifting. At the UN, none of them supported Russia in the resolution condemning the Ukraine invasion.

The leaders of Serbia and Kosovo are meeting in Brussels Thursday (18 August) in the hopes of resolving a spike in tensions over border issues.

While some experts have played down the risks of a disaster concerning nuclear facilities in Ukraine amid the ongoing conflict, these assessments understate the threat.