The Latest Breaking News from Charles Michel

‘It is on Russia to stop rape, violence, and atrocities from within its ranks,’- US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield.

Russia's U.N. Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia stormed out of a U.N. Security Council meeting on Monday as European Council President Charles Michel addressed the 15-member body and accused Moscow of fueling a global food crisis with its invasion of Ukraine.

African Union chair calls on EU leaders to do all they can to release grain stocks amid ‘perfect storm’ for global supply chain

Number of UK mortgages approved hit two-year low in April, as consumers spend more on credit as inflation rises

European Union leaders have reached a compromise deal to ban more than two-thirds of Russian oil imports, punishment for its invasion of Ukraine three months ago. Meanwhile, Moscow's forces push ahead with their offensive in the eastern Donbas region.

The EU said it would ban 90 per cent of oil imports from Russia by the end of this year

European Union leaders have agreed to ban more than two-thirds of Russian oil imports, tightening economic screws on the country even as Moscow's forces press their offensive in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region. The compromise deal reached late Monday, meant to punish Russia for its invasion three months ago, cuts "a…

Ukraine said on Tuesday that Russia had taken control of most of the eastern industrial city of Sievierodonetsk, a bombed-out wasteland whose capture Moscow has made the principal objective of its invasion.

Ukraine president calls bombing of major chemical plant ‘madness’; Gazprom halts gas flows to companies in three western European countries

Russian forces now control "most" of the eastern Ukrainian city of Severodonetsk after days of fierce fighting, the regional governor of Luhansk said Tuesday. Governor Sergiy Gaiday said "90 percent" of the city was destroyed and there was now no possibility of leaving Severodonetsk. Read our live blog to see…

Airstrike hits chemical plant in Sievierodonetsk; African Union warns that Moscow blockade of Ukrainian ports risks ‘catastrophic’ food shortages