KYIV KONSTYANTYNIVKA Ukraine Reuters Russia said on Sunday its forces and their allies had taken control of Ukraine s eastern Luhansk region after capturing the final Ukrainian holdout of Lysychansk although Ukraine has yet to comment after reporting heavy fighting there After fierce

   Reuters Russia said on Sunday its forces and their allies had taken control of Ukraine s eastern Luhansk region after capturing the final Ukrainian holdout of Lysychansk although Ukraine had yet to comment after reporting heavy fighting in the city FIGHTING Russia s Defence Minister Sergei

   Reuters Libyan protesters want the political authorities to quit and hold elections after previous transitional periods created institutions that clung on long after their mandates expired Here are Libya s main political institutions that have so far failed to overcome entrenched differences

   HONG KONG Reuters Chinese developer Shimao Group has missed the interest and principal payment of a US billion offshore bond due on Sunday in the latest blow to China s embattled property market Shimao was unable to pay a total of US billion in principal and interest to creditors of a

   LONDON Reuters Peter Brook one of the world s most innovative theatre directors who perfected the art of staging powerful drama in bizarre venues has died aged his publisher said on Sunday The British director used the world as his stage mounting productions ranging from challenging

   MELBOURNE Reuters Thousands of residents were ordered to evacuate southwest Sydney Australia s biggest city on Sunday with torrential rain and damaging winds pounding the east coast and floods expected to be worse than those that hit the region in the past year Heavy rain and overflowing dams

   ZURICH Reuters Swiss businesses would be first to have energy rationed in the event of supply shortages Energy Minister Simonetta Sommaruga told the SonntagsZeitung warning that the government cannot guarantee there will always be enough gas to go around Landlocked Switzerland gets its gas

   PRAGUE Reuters Czech fighter jets will guard neighbouring Slovakia s air space as of September Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala said on Sunday Slovakia asked its NATO allies to patrol its skies as it decided to ground its Russian made MiG fighter jets which could be sent to neighbouring

   BERLIN Reuters Germany will not shut schools and non essential businesses again if the COVID infection rate rises again later this year but protective masks would play a bigger role Chancellor Olaf Scholz told broadcaster ARD on Sunday The infection rate in Germany has been on the rise for

   Reuters At least three people were killed and dozens of residential buildings damaged in the Russian city of Belgorod near the Ukraine border the regional governor said in what Moscow said was a Ukrainian missile attack At least apartment buildings and private houses were damaged

   LONDON Reuters Voters in Scotland remain evenly split over whether or not they support independence from the rest of Britain a poll published by the Sunday Times showed days after the Scottish government set out plans for a referendum on the subject next year Last week Scotland s first

   Reuters Russia s Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu told President Vladimir Putin on Sunday that Moscow and its allies now controlled all of Ukraine s Luhansk region after capturing the last major city Lysychansk There was no immediate response from Ukraine on the Russian claim which if confirmed

   PRAGUE Reuters The Czech National Bank s new governor Ales Michl is likely to stabilise interest rates as he and three new board members are not keen on policy tightening President Milos Zeman said on Sunday Michl and the new board members took their seats on July shortly after the previous

   KYIV Reuters Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese visited three war ravaged towns in Ukraine s Kyiv region the local governor said on Sunday Governor Oleksiy Kuleba wrote on Telegram that Albanese visited the towns of Bucha Irpin and Hostomel where Ukraine says Russia committed

   QUETTA Pakistan Reuters A passenger bus plunged into a ravine in southwestern Pakistan on Sunday killing people a government official said The road crash also injured another people aboard the bus that was travelling from garrison city of Rawalpindi to Quetta the capital of

   BERLIN Reuters Germany is discussing security guarantees for Ukraine with its allies in preparation for a time after the war in Ukraine German Chancellor Scholz told broadcaster ARD on Sunday We are discussing with close friends the question of the security guarantees we can give This is an

   FRANKFURT Reuters Germany s road traffic agency said it was recalling Tesla models Y and because of a fault in the automatic emergency call system that affects vehicles globally The KBA watchdog said on its website dated June that a software flaw was causing a breakdown of the eCall

   WASHINGTON Reuters The U S Supreme Court s top security officer has asked Maryland Governor Larry Hogan to enforce laws barring picketing outside the Maryland homes of high court justices saying protests and threatening activity have increased Supreme Court Marshal Gail Curley made the

   CAIRO Reuters Egypt s Red Sea Governorate issued an order to shut down several Red Sea beaches on Friday after a year old Austrian woman was killed in a shark attack earlier that day off the coast of Sahl Hasheesh according to two security sources The victim was transferred to a local

   Reuters Russia s Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu informed President Vladimir Putin that all of Ukraine s Luhansk region had been liberated by Russian and separatist forces the defence ministry said on Sunday After being beaten back in its initial attempt to capture the capital Kyiv Russia