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This screen grab from a video posted on Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky's Twitter account shows an aerial view of the dam of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Station after it was partially destroyed. Picture: Twitter/@ZelenskyyUa Twitter acc/AFP via Getty Images

War against Ukraine: Dam explosion a ‘bomb of mass environmental destruction’

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks at the 24th EU-Ukraine summit in Kyiv last week.

President Zelensky to visit Brussels to meet European leaders

lexey Dronov, Consul General of the Russian Federation in Bonn attends with his colleagues the opening day of the UNFCCC's SB56 climate conference on June 06, 2022 in Bonn, Germany. The June 6-16 conference is in preparation for the UN Climate Change Conference COP27 in in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, which is scheduled to take place in November this year. (Photo by Andreas Rentz/Getty Images)

EU blames Russia for food crisis prompting walkout at UN meeting

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New EU sanctions explained as well as Hungary and Slovakia stance

Stock photo of President of the European Council, Charles Michel (right) and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen

EU leaders agree to ban 90% of Russian oil by year-end

A man walks next to heavily damaged buildings and destroyed cars following Russian attacks in Bakhmut, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Tuesday, May 24, 2022. The region, along with neighbouring Luhansk, is part of the Donbas, where Russian forces have focused their offensive. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Russian progress slow but gains being held - says MoD

The UK needs to work with other European countries like France or Global Britain could quickly turn into 'Britain all alone' (Picture: Alastair Grant/pool/Getty Images)

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German chancellor Angela Merkel asks Vladimir Putin to intervene with Belarus ...

Brussels accuses Minsk of playing ‘Russian roulette’ with journalist detention (Photo by PETRAS MALUKAS/AFP via Getty Images)

Brussels accuses Minsk of playing ‘Russian roulette’ with journalist detention

Dominic Raab says EU claims of UK Covid vaccine export ban are ‘completely false’ (Photo: Shutterstock)

Dominic Raab says EU claims of UK Covid vaccine export ban are ‘completely false...

The post-Brexit trade deal has been approved by MPs - so what happens next?

EU chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier, wearing an EU flag-themed facemask due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, leaves a hotel in London. Picture: Justin Tallis/AFP via Getty Images

Brexit deal hangs in the balance, warns EU council president

Portugal Prime Minister Antonio Costa gives a report as he is welcomed by European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen (right) prior to a meeting ahead of a two days European Union (EU) summit in Brussels. European leaders are meeting to re-examine the post-Brexit talks under pressure from Boris Johnson to give ground or see Britain walk away with no trade deal. Picture: Olivier Hoslet/POOL/AFP via Getty Images

EU leaders meet amid 'frustration' on day of Boris Johnson's Brexit deadline

European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen arrives for an EU summit in Brussels. Picture: AP Photo/Olivier Matthys, Pool

European Commission president forced into isolation over Covid-19 contact

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson (R) speaks with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen inside 10 Downing Street in central London on January 8, 2020, ahead of their meeting. - The EU's top official on Wednesday predicted "tough talks" with Britain on the sides' future relations after Brexit enters force after years of delays at the end of the month. "There will be tough talks ahead and each side will do what is best for them," European Council president Ursula von der Leyen said ahead of her first official meeting with Prime Minister Boris Johnson. (Photo by Kirsty Wigglesworth / POOL / AFP) (Photo by KIRSTY WIGGLESWORTH/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Boris Johnson says UK and EU ‘not far apart’ on trade talks

U.S. President Donald Trump (R) with Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar. Picture: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Donald Trump claims virus ‘seeded’ in European travellers as EU strikes back

EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen visiting Downing Street earlier this month

Brexit: EU warns it will fight hard for its interests in trade talks

Europeans buying Scottish products could face a shock at the checkout. Picture: shutterstock

Scottish food exports ‘could face 50 per cent price hike following Brexit’

Boris Johnson has said he wants to negotiate a comprehensive free trade deal with the EU by the end of the year. Picture: PA

EU chiefs formally sign Brexit Withdrawal Agreement ahead of departure

UK may find its standing on the world stage diminished. Emmanuel Macron, Angela Merkel and other leaders at the UN (Picture: Ludovic Marin/AFP via Getty Images)

UK has already lost influence on world stage and Brexit will make things worse –...

Theresa May in Belgium. (Photo by Gareth Fuller - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

May joins Macron to pay tribute to fallen soldiers of WW1

Theresa May’s convoy involved in crash on Belgium visit

Theresa May holds up a Belgian National team jersey presented by Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel, center left. Picture: AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert

Theresa May handed No.10 '˜Hazard' shirt by Belgian PM

Policemen stand guard the Boulevard Emile Jacqmain - Emile Jacqmainlaan in the city centre of Brussels where a man is alleged to have attacked soldiers with a knife and was shot. Picture: AURORE BELOT/AFP/Getty Images

Man shot after attacking troops with knife in Brussels

Jean-Baptiste "Toots" Thielemans, Belgian harmonica player. Picture: AFP/Getty Images

Obituary: Toots Thielemans, Belgian harmonica player

CCTV footage of three men believed to have been involved in the Brussels Airport attacks. Picture: AFP/Belgian Federal Police

Brussels explosions: '˜31 dead, 170 hurt' | Manhunt for terror suspect

Soldiers patrol the streets as the Belgian capital remains on the highest possible alert. Picture: Getty

Brussels lockdown: New terrorism suspect charged

German Chancellor Angela Merkel with David Cameron and French president Francois Hollande in Brussels yesterday. Picture: PA

David Cameron to publish EU reform demands

Prime Minister David Cameron leaves after an EU summit in Brussels yesterday. Picture: AP

David Cameron promises ‘positive’ EU poll fight

The Prime Minister has already run into problems with other EU leaders. Picture: AP

Cameron’s EU renegotiation bid runs into opposition

A journalist reads a newspaper about the Belgian police raid, near Colline street in Verviers, eastern Belgium. Picture: Getty

Belgium: Jihadists plotted Lee Rigby-style attack

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Belgian minister protests at 'unacceptable' Israeli block on Gaza visit

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