Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Thursday, unleashing air strikes and ordering ground troops across the border in fighting that Ukrainian authorities said left dozens of people dead.The attack triggered Western warnings of unprecedented sanctions against Russia as NATO, European Union (EU) and G7 leaders condemned the invasion and vowed to hold Moscow accountable.Weeks of intense diplomacy failed to deter Putin, who massed over 150,000 troops on Uk

This week, Russia officially recognized the independence of Donetsk and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine.

French pharmaceuticals giant Sanofi said Wednesday that its COVID-19 vaccine, developed with Britain's GSK, had delivered positive results after nearly a year of delays left it lagging far behind its rivals.The two drugmakers said they will "seek regulatory authorisation" for their vaccine in the United States (US) and the European Union (EU) following phase 3 trials involving thousands of people.The trials indicated that the vaccine was 100 percent effective against severe COV

Tensions between Ukraine and Russia, which has massed troops along their border, has drawn Washington and Moscow into a Cold War-style stand-off.Here is a timeline of the spiralling situation.Troop Movements On 10 November, 2021 NATO warns Moscow about taking "aggressive action" after Washington reports unusual troops movements near the Ukrainian border.Russian President Vladimir Putin accuses the West of "supplying modern weapons to Kyiv" and staging provocative

As the year draws to an end, we looked back at some of the events that have marked the relationship between ASEAN and the European Union.

European countries are currently divided over whether to join United States (US) President Joe Biden’s diplomatic boycott of the upcoming Winter Olympics in Beijing. The episode underscores yet again that when it comes to dealing with China, Europe and the US truly are an ocean apart.

Here are the latest developments in the coronavirus crisis:France Bans British TouristsFrance "drastically tightens" restrictions on travel to and from Britain from Saturday with tourists and business trips banned to slow the spread of the Omicron variant which is raging in southern England.Another COVID Record In UKThe United Kingdom government reports another daily record of 88,376 new COVID cases, as Britons change their festive plans, including Queen Elizabeth II who cancels her

In recent weeks, as Europe has again become the global epicentre of the COVID-19 pandemic, the surge in coronavirus cases, hospitalisations, and deaths has highlighted the continued vaccine hesitancy of one group of Europeans in particular: those in the formerly communist East. While 75.6% of European Union (EU) citizens are fully vaccinated, the share in Bulgaria is 26.2 percent and 39.6 percent in Romania. In countries outside the EU, the numbers are even bleaker.

Global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions caused mainly by burning fossil fuels are set to rebound in 2021 to pre-COVID levels, with China's share increasing to nearly a third of the total, according to an assessment published Thursday.Overall, CO2 pollution this year will be just shy of the record set in 2019, according to the annual report from the Global Carbon Project consortium, released as nearly 200 nations at the COP26 climate summit confront the threat of catastrophic warming.Emissi

The European Union (EU) has exported "over one billion" doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the past 10 months, the bloc's chief Ursula von der Leyen said on Monday."Very clearly, the European Union is the largest exporter of COVID-19 vaccines," she said, announcing the "important milestone" in a brief broadcast and statement.Von der Leyen said that 87 million of the doses had been funnelled through the WHO-led COVAX scheme to mid- and low-income countries.&nb