Rusijos bendrovė „Gazprom Neft“ teigia besideranti dėl savo akcijų dalies Serbijos naftos bendrovėje NIS pardavimo, ketvirtadienį sakė jos generalinis direktorius Aleksandras Djukovas, kuris taip pat pabrėžė, kad tai „užtruks“.

Rusija pareiškė, kad tikisi paaiškinimų po paskelbtų pranešimų, kad Jungtinių Valstijų prezidentas Donaldas Trumpas pakeitė nuomonę dėl karo Ukrainoje.

Temperatures in Germany could hit 40C in some areas while French officials say deaths linked to the heat are being seen among young people.

Ukraine's Volodmyr Zelensky skips major conference aimed at rebuilding his country after being stripped of a Polish state honour.

The airline had typically charged adults a fee of £8 each way to sit with their young children.

Signs that traffic through the key Strait of Hormuz shipping route is gradually resuming has helped to push the oil price down.

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LONDON — Keir Starmer is expected to ignore calls — including from his likely successor as prime minister — for the U.K. to sign up to a multilateral defense bank championed by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney at next month’s NATO summit. Two allies of Andy Burnham, who will take over as the new British prime minister mid-July barring an upset, said he and his advisers supported the idea of the Defense, Security and Resilience Bank (DSRB) and saw the Ankara meeting as the best chance to get it signed. The U.K. government has been locked in a desperate hunt for cash to boost the armed forces, while Starmer is still pushing to finish the long-delayed Defence Investment Plan before he leaves office. Burnham will face similar spending difficulties if he enters Downing Street, and has already acknowledged the need to cut other departmental funding to plug gaps. He and his team see DSRB as a worthwhile way to help inject more money into rearmament, according to the same two allies. However, Starmer and Chancellor Rachel Reeves have long been cool on the idea and have so far resisted overtures from Ottawa to join when the bank is founded at the NATO gathering. Gordon Brown, the former prime minister who Starmer has brought back as his global finance envoy, has been in discussions with Carney, but the Treasury now appears to be focused on merging the DSRB with the U.K.’s Multilateral Defence Mechanism with Finland and the Netherlands. Reeves told the Commons this week: “We are … working closely with Canada on how we can bring the MDM and DSRB together so we can have one model that helps us better fund defense in our country and across Europe.” Supporters of the bank say such a merger would delay it beyond the Ankara summit. One MP familiar with the discussions said, “these things are working on completely different timescales,” and that DSRB is “ready to go,” whereas “there is no detail on MDM at all, so it’s impossible to talk about merging without stalling DSRB.” An official from one of the U.K.’s partner countries in MDM said it was “very much still in the early stages.” Meanwhile, a defense industry representative said that No.10 was “wholly focused” on delivering the DIP and inclined to leave new defense financing initiatives to Burnham. A spokesperson for the Treasury said the department would not comment on hypotheticals, while Downing Street declined to comment.

The denial contradicts the US administration, which said unfrozen funds will be spent on produce from American farmers.

Schools are closing, public transport is slowing and cooling items are flying off shelves as Britons swelter.

Minister says watering down European engine rules would send ‘terrible signal’ after Hormuz energy crisis

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As France and Europe continues to swelter under scorching temperatures, France's healthcare system has been left struggling to cope, with Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu announcing on Thursday that the country's health alert warning system was being raised to its highest level. France 24's Olivia Bizot has the details.

The King of the Paris Voguing scene tells FRANCE 24 how the art form is about your own liberation and freedom. Voguing has been widely championed in France by the LGBTQ+ community. Originating in the 1980s from the 1960s Harlem ballroom scene, the dance combines fashion, posing and self-expression. In Perspective, we speak to the Father of the international House of Revlon, Vinii.

New images from La Guaira on 25 June revealed widespread destruction after twin earthquakes struck Venezuela's Caribbean coast, damaging buildings, roads and key public infrastructure.

Can the International Monetary Fund finally help Africa break out of its multi-generational loop of rescue and repayment and here is how Nigerian businesses are using stablecoins to bypass traditional banks to fight inflation.