EU accused of fueling Putin's war by importing Russian liquefied natural gas
European governments have been accused of fueling Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine, after new data showed the Kremlin earned around 7.2 billion euros last year from exporting liquefied natural gas (LNG) to the EU.
Brussels has pledged to stop imports of Russian liquefied natural gas by 2027, but an analysis shows that there is still no reduction in the quantities being received at European ports from the Russian liquefied natural gas complex on the Yamal Peninsula in Siberia.
According to the non-governmental human rights organization Urgewald, over 15 million tons of LNG from Yamal were transported to EU terminals during 2025, bringing the Kremlin around 7.2 billion euros in revenue.
Power restored to thousands of Berlin homes after attack on power lines caused outages
Berlin's electricity grid operator announced that power was gradually restored on Wednesday to all homes left without service.
Around 45,000 households and 2,200 businesses lost power on Saturday morning after a fire in the southwest of the German capital, where many of the high-voltage cables were burned.
Authorities gradually managed to reconnect many of them to the network, but it took several days of work to repair the damage.
This was the longest power outage in the country since the end of World War II.
France bids farewell to film star Brigitte Bardot with funeral and public tribute in Saint-Tropez
Well-wishers packed the streets of Brigitte Bardot's hometown of Saint-Tropez on Wednesday for the funeral of the French screen icon, as her husband revealed she had died of cancer.
Her coffin was received on the steps of the Notre-Dame de l'Assomption church by her long-estranged son at the start of a traditional Catholic morning funeral service.
The star of the 50s and 60s was buried in her family's grave on the Mediterranean coast later in the day, after dying at the age of 91 at her home on December 28.
"Out with the Americans!": Thousands protest in Colombia as anger grows over Trump's intervention in Venezuela
Thousands of Colombians took to the streets to protest Donald Trump's threats of military action in Colombia following the US attack on Venezuela, chanting "Out with the Americans!" and supporting Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro supported the rallies, condemning the attack as illegal, but expressed willingness for dialogue with Trump.
Protests spread across Latin America, rejecting US military intervention and attempts to control oil resources.
Experts on the region criticized Trump for resource plunder and failure to protect diplomatic relations and democracy.
