Chancellor Olaf Scholz has announced a tax reduction on gas as the war in Ukraine drives up prices. Until 2024, the lower tax rate of 7% will be charged, not 19%. Scholz also promised more support for consumers.
A statement from British defence intelligence on Wednesday that “Russian commanders will highly likely be increasingly concerned with the apparent deterioration in security across Crimea, which functions as rear base area for the occupation.”
The study further said that more than 5 billion people would die of hunger amid a full-scale nuclear war between the United States and Russia.
Five billion people would die in a modern nuclear war with the impact of a global famine — triggered by sunlight-blocking soot in the atmosphere — likely to far exceed the casualties caused by…
There has been fighting here since 2014, when Moscow annexed the southeastern Crimean peninsula and began backing pro-Russia separatists in the eastern Donbas area. Although Russia has made advances, Ukraine has put up a staunch resistance and both sides are dug in, with rallies of artillery and countering fire determining…
Heavy rain and flash floods have added to the problems caused by Yemen’s civil war. Despite the current truce, the humanitarian situation remains dire, and the next catastrophe might be already looming off the coast.
Ukrainian refugees in Dortmund staged a photo exhibition in co-operation with BVB fan groups. The images, taken on the refugees’ own smartphones, show the effects of Russia’s war from a uniquely personal perspective.
Taiwan’s army held another live-fire drill Thursday after Beijing ended its largest-ever military exercises around the island and repeated threats to bring the self-ruled democracy under its control.