The closure of Russian airspace to Western airlines following the full-scale invasion of Ukraine has forced planes to take longer flight routes, raising the aviation sector's overall planet-warming carbon dioxide emissions, researchers said Wednesday.

Dozens of Western countries closed their airspace to Russian aircraft after the February 2022

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The head of the Russian Orthodox Church publicly ridiculed a priest for criticizing the church’s alignment with the Kremlin’s wartime patriotic agenda, according to a leaked video recording.

Patriarch Kirill, a close ally of President Vladimir Putin, has been a vocal supporter of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, and the country’s Orthodox Church pla

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Russian gas supplies to Europe via the TurkStream gas pipeline set a new record last week, according to data from the European Network of Gas Transmission System Operators (ENTSOG), the state-run TASS news agency reported Wednesday.

Gas flows through the TurkStream pipeline reached a record weekly level between Feb. 3 and 9, with over 390 million

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BRUSSELS-- NATO deals with an essential week as the alliance navigates uncertainty over the United States' commitment to Ukraine and European security under President Donald Trump. As Russia advances in Ukraine on the eve of the intrusion's 3rd anniversary, NATO is preparing for key conferences that could form the future of Western military and monetary s
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The Kremlin said Wednesday that it would not consider exchanging occupied territory with Kyiv as part of any future deal to end the war in Ukraine.

"This is impossible," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. "Russia has never and will never discuss the topic of exchanging its territory."

Peskov vowed that Ukrainian forces holding positions

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The Russian ruble continued to gain against the U.S. dollar on Wednesday, putting the volatile currency on track for its strongest week since early October.

The ruble was up 2.75% at 94 to the dollar by Wednesday afternoon, according to spot foreign exchange market data.

Russian analysts attributed the ruble’s gains to increased dollar sales by R

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