RUSSIA

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa before embarking on a flight to Congo to continue his three-nation tour of Africa

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned Russia as both sides trade accusations of shelling the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.

Global food prices slid in July, but there are doubts over whether the good news will last as, among other things, the Russia-Ukraine grain deal appears shaky.

A study shows how Russian arms depend on Western components - and a nuclear plant remains a major concern.

In the wake of purported strikes targeting Zaporizhzhia, world leaders and experts are calling Russian and Ukrainian forces to declare a military-free zone.

The Biden administration announced a $1 billion security assistance package for Ukraine on Monday.

Russian weapons could be permanently degraded by tougher export controls in the West, a think tank says.

The Kremlin has cut gas supplies to Europe via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline to just a fifth of its capacity.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres demanded that IAEA international inspectors be given access to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant to assess damages.

Asian stock markets are mixed after strong U.S. jobs data cleared the way for more interest rate hikes and China reported Monday that its exports rose by double digits.

“This time a nuclear catastrophe was miraculously avoided, but miracles cannot last forever,” Ukraine’s state nuclear power company Energoatom said Sunday.

Cuban firefighters have been joined by special teams sent by Mexico and Venezuela as they battle for a second day to control a fire blazing at a big oil tank farm

A Lebanese Cabinet minister and the Ukrainian embassy say the scheduled arrival of the first grain ship to leave Ukraine and cross the Black Sea under a wartime deal has been delayed

Oksana Pokalchuk's resignation comes after Amnesty International released a report accusing Ukraine of endangering civilians.

The shelling of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southeastern Ukraine highlights the potential for “catastrophic consequences”

Women dressed in white hold hands in front of the Water Tower as supporters of Ukraine protest Russia’s military action before a silent march on Aug. 7, 2022, along Michigan Avenue.

The International Atomic Energy Agency director general urged Russia and Ukraine to allow a mission of experts access to the facility to help secure it.

Urgent responses from farmers and governments after Russia blockaded grain shipments provide a roadmap to facing future crises as threats to world food networks multiply.

Russia and Ukraine are accusing one another of shelling the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, as fighting continues in the south on Saturday.

Brittney Griner, who was in Russia to play for a local team during the WNBA off-season, was detained over vape carriages containing cannabis oil in her luggage.

Football, basketball, baseball, no sport is safe from homecoming hugs. These military reunions make everyone forget about the scoreboard.

A fire accompanied by explosions at a police ammunition dump in a Berlin forest has been contained and large parts of it have been extinguished, but authorities are still waiting to get access to the dump itself

Three ships are exporting grain from Ukraine’s Black Sea ports. President Biden described Brittney Griner’s sentencing as “unacceptable."

The US says it has a "serious proposal" for Moscow that would secure the release of the basketball star.

Pakistani police say suspected separatists threw a grenade at a roadside store selling national flags in southwestern Baluchistan province, killing a man and wounding 14 people

The technology is expected to greatly enhance Tehran’s ability to spy on military targets across the Middle East.

The judge in the WNBA star's case could rule by Thursday evening.

Moscow said the Norwegian consul's "insulting Russophobic remarks" made her staying in Russia "impossible."

Lebanon’s transport minister has tweeted that a Syrian ship that Ukraine says is carrying stolen Ukrainian grain has left a Lebanese port

The president noted that the constitution cannot be changed during wartime.

The U.N. will investigate a prison blast that killed Ukrainian prisoners of war. Volodymyr Zelensky wants to “talk directly” with Chinese leader Jinping.

Anatoly Chubais in March became the highest official to cut ties with the Kremlin since Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Seven more NATO countries must give the green light to the expansion of the alliance, which was spurred by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Stacey Abrams, Georgia’s Democratic nominee for governor, joins Yahoo News National Reporter Marquise Francis to discuss her views on the state-level battles over abortion access. “It is a medical decision, and while your faith tradition may tell you that you personally do not want to make that choice, it is not my right as a Christian to impose that value system on someone else,” Abrams tells Yahoo News. “It should always be that abortion care is available until a fetus is viable, unless that viability threatens the life of the mother.”

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The U.N. says the ship is carrying more than 26,000 tons of grain that's been locked up in Ukraine amid the country's ongoing war with Russia.

A massive fire has engulfed a warehouse outside Moscow, killing at least one person and injuring 13 others.

A massive fire engulfed a warehouse outside Moscow on Wednesday, killing at least one person, injuring 13 others and leaving two missing, officials said. The fire, at a warehouse belonging to Russia's leading online retailer, Ozon, affected an area of 50,000 square meters (540,000 square feet). Emergencies officials said that one person died in the fire, and Moscow region Gov. Andrei Vorobyov said that two people are unaccounted-for.

Ukraine’s ambassador to Lebanon is insisting that a Syrian ship docked at a Lebanese port is carrying stolen Ukrainian grain and urged Lebanon to block the ship from leaving

Kansas voters voted to protect abortion rights as the issue faced its first test at the ballot box since the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade. Also, fresh threats from China against the United States, as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visits leaders in Taiwan. All that and all that matters in today's Eye Opener.

UKRAINSKA PRAVDA - WEDNESDAY, 3 AUGUST 2022, 15:06 The launch of eight Kh-101 (Kh-555) missiles on Ukraine by the occupying forces on 2 August cost Russia almost US$100 million. Source: Oleh Nikolenko, spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, on Twitter; Forbes Ukraine Quote from Nikolenko: "Putin is consigning Russia to poverty with his criminal war, instead of investing in its future.

Paris’ regional authorities have warned residents to be vigilant as temperatures soar to 36 degrees Celsius (97 Fahrenheit)

The first grain ship to leave Odessa is now off the coast of Turkey and is due to be inspected under the U.N.-brokered agreement with Russia.

But the RAC motoring group warned major retailers should be cutting pump prices further.

The Treasury Department added Alina Kabaeva, a former star gymnast thought to be Russian President Vladimir Putin's romantic partner, to its sanctions list.

Russia accused the US of approving missile targets, while Russian soldiers steal sunflower seeds.

Russia is building a new ground-based laser facility for interfering with satellites orbiting overhead, according to a recent report. Here's what that means.

Judicial officials say Lebanon’s prosecutor general has granted permission for a Syrian ship said to be carrying Ukrainian grain stolen by Russia to leave a port in the country’s north

The House speaker's trip to Taiwan signals to senior politicians around the world that they can show support for Taiwan’s democracy in person — despite vocal opposition from Beijing.

BP’s earnings have tripled in the second quarter as the British energy giant profited from oil and natural gas prices that soared after Russia invaded Ukraine.

WNBA player Brittney Griner is due to return to a Moscow court in her first appearance since the Biden administration proposed a prisoner exchange with Russia.

The WNBA star appeared in a Moscow court for the first time since news broke of a proposed prisoner exchange that would free her and former Marine Paul Whelan.

"We're deeply concerned about the fact that Russia has taken over nuclear facilities in Ukraine," Secretary of State Antony Blinken said at the start of a U.N. conference.

Spain’s prime minister has kicked off his tour of the Western Balkans with a visit to Serbia.

French President Emmanuel Macron says Russia's war on Ukraine is responsible for a global food shortage that is causing untold suffering in Africa.

Inflation’s relentless surge didn’t merely persist in June.

Ilona Khomenko was widowed nearly two months ago when her husband died in fighting in Sievierodonetsk in eastern Ukraine.

The Polish president says Poland and Israel have taken a step toward normalizing diplomatic ties as the Israeli ambassador officially presented his credentials in Warsaw.

European Union nations have approved fresh aid for Ukraine as the country faces growing economic damage from Russia’s invasion.

A staggering 71 million more people around the world are experiencing poverty as a result of soaring food and energy prices that climbed in the weeks following Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Syrians in the last major rebel stronghold of the war-torn country are living in fear of the effects of Russia closing down the only border crossing into the northwestern province of Idlib.

The head of the U.N. food agency is warning that the spike in food, fuel and fertilizer prices sparked by the war in Ukraine is threatening to push countries around the world into famine.

The head of the European Central Bank says it will move gradually to combat soaring consumer prices with interest rate hikes in July and September but will keep its options open to “stamp out” inflation if it surges faster than expected.

NATO secretary general Jens Stoltenberg says the military alliance wants to increase the strength of its rapid reaction forces from the current 40,000 to over 300,000.

A growing number of couples in Ukraine are speedily turning love into matrimony because of the war with Russia.

Bulgaria’s parliament has voted to lift a veto that has long blocked European Union membership negotiations with North Macedonia and Albania.

The head of the United Nations has warned the world faces “catastrophe” because of the growing shortage of food around the globe.

A diplomatic row at the bottom of the world is playing out between the normally allied U.S. and U.K. governments in response to provocations from Russia.

Britain’s inflation rate hit 9.1% in May, a new 40-year high and up slightly on the previous month.

Elite swimmer Mykhailo Romanchuk doesn’t know if his father was able to see him winning a medal for Ukraine at the swimming world championships.

President Joe Biden’s administration says it's restricting the use of anti-personnel land mines by the U.S. military, aligning more closely with an international treaty banning the deadly explosives.

Nuclear Russia's pillaging of non-nuclear Ukraine is rattling what's already a destabilizing moment in nuclear nonproliferation efforts.

President Joe Biden sat down with The Associated Press to discuss the state of the economy, his concerns about the national mood and his commitment to standing up to Russia’s aggression in Ukraine.

Soaring gasoline prices have left many consumers with no choice but to cut spending on non-essentials, but it might be coming full circle by stopping some drivers from filling up their tanks.

The U.S. Open will allow tennis players from Russia and Belarus to compete this year despite the ongoing war in Ukraine.

An airline industry group is criticizing the European Union's Parliament for seeking to expand its emissions trading system to long-haul flights.

The average cost of filling up a typical family car has exceeded 100 pounds, or $125, for the first time in Britain as Russia’s war in Ukraine drives gasoline prices higher.

Shares are mostly lower in Asia as investors watch for fresh signs of inflation.

China and Russia have defended their vetoes of a strongly backed U.S. resolution that would have imposed tough new sanctions on North Korea.

The World Bank has sharply downgraded its outlook for the global economy, pointing to Russia’s war against Ukraine, the prospect of widespread food shortages and concerns about the potential return of “stagflation” — a toxic mix of high inflation and sluggish growth unseen for more than four decades.

Barring an end to the war in Ukraine, athletes from Russia and Belarus will be banned from next month’s track and field world championships.

Marin Cilic has dominated a fifth-set tiebreaker against seventh-seeded Andrey Rublev to advance to his first French Open semifinal.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Thursday that U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration is aiming to lead the international bloc opposed to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine into a broader coalition to counter what it sees as a more serious, long-term threat to global order from China.

The risks to the global economy are leading to an increasingly gloomy view of the months ahead for corporate leaders, government officials and other VIPs gathered at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland.

A senior Turkish official says Turkey will not agree to Sweden and Finland joining NATO without “concrete steps in a certain timeframe” to address Ankara’s concerns.

Joe Biden spent his first presidential trip to Asia strengthening economic and military commitments.

South Africa’s neutral stance on Russia’s war in Ukraine will be a major topic of conversation as German Chancellor Olaf Scholz meets Tuesday with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, to end his three-nation tour of Africa.

Lesia Tsurenko is a professional tennis player from Ukraine who is trying to carry on with her career while her country is being invaded by Russia.

The head of the U.N.’s World Food Program is telling billionaires it’s “time to step up” as the global threat of food insecurity rises because of Russia’s war in Ukraine.

The women's and men’s professional tennis tours say they will not award ranking points for Wimbledon this year because of the All England Club’s ban on players from Russia and Belarus over the invasion of Ukraine.

All of us continue to feel the effects of the war between Russia and Ukraine, but for people who are from eastern Europe or have loved ones overseas, it’s an even greater impact.

The State Department said Tuesday that it still pushing to have regular contact with WNBA star Brittney Griner, who has been detained in Russia for nearly three months.

Scotland's leader says the Russian war in Ukraine only makes Scotland’s drive for independence from the U.K. more important.

A jury has been picked in the trial of a lawyer for the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign who is accused of lying to the FBI as it investigated potential ties between Donald Trump and Russia in 2016.

Ukrainian band Kalush Orchestra has released a new music video, hours after its hit “Stefania” led it to victory in the Eurovision Song Contest.

Iran has abruptly raised prices as much as 300% for a variety of staples like oil, chicken, milk and eggs.

As the war between Russia and Ukraine shows no signs of slowing down, Ukrainians across their country to to heal as the bury the dead and salvage what is left of villages, towns and cities that have been destroyed by Russians.

The Senate has confirmed economist Phillip Jefferson to the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors.

The Federal Reserve no longer views the coronavirus pandemic as the biggest threat to the global financial system.

The world’s biggest shipping company, Denmark’s A.