After an unprecedented year-long delay, the 2020 Tokyo Olympics will finally kick off on July 23, the day some Ukrainian athletes have been awaiting for years to try to leave their mark in the world’s sports history.  The games will take place in ...

Ukraine has registered 763 new cases of COVID-19 as of 9 a.m. on July 23, bringing the total number of cases in the country since the start of the pandemic to over 2.24 million. In the past 24 hours, 639 COVID-19 patients have recovered and 21 have d...

Nord Stream 2, the gas pipeline project designed to double the volume of Russian gas delivered to Germany via the Baltic Sea, continues to be a contentious topic in U.S.-European relations. It was hoped a statement issued by U.S. and German officials...

French President Emmanuel Macron has changed his phone and phone number in light of allegations that Pegasus spyware might have targeted him, a presidency official said Thursday, the same day Macron held an emergency meeting on cybersecurity at the Ã...

The Latest on the Tokyo Olympics, which are taking place under heavy restrictions after a year’s delay because of the coronavirus pandemic: A map on the Olympic website has been changed after Ukraine protested that it included a border across the C...

A panel of health experts advising the U.S. government on vaccines expressed preliminary support for giving Covid-19 boosters to immunocompromised people, but said they were waiting for regulatory action before making a formal recommendation. Read mo...

Many popular websites fell offline on Thursday in a widespread global outage of service. Visitors attempting to reach some sites received DNS errors, meaning their requests could not reach the websites. Affected services included Airbnb, UPS, HSBC ba...

The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has decided to raise the discount rate to 8% per annum, NBU Governor Kyrylo Shevchenko has said. Read more here. The post UkrInform: National Bank raises discount rate to 8% appeared first on KyivPost.

A London-listed oil and gas company lost a high-profile international arbitration case with Georgia after spending $1m on lobbying fees to pressure the country’s government, openDemocracy and OC Media report on July 22. Read more here. The post Ope...

MOSCOW — Russia on July 21 successfully launched a long-delayed lab module for the International Space Station that is intended to provide more room for scientific experiments and space for the crew. Read more here. The post Associated Press: Russi...