Ben Aris

Russian drones destroyed the distribution centres of four Ukrainian retail chains in one night, while Ukrainian drones set fire to the eighth Russian refinery hit this month in the last two days.

As part of her visit to Beijing, Saida Mirziyoyeva, Head of the Administration of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan, held meetings with

Europe's gas traders have spent the summer betting that the Gulf war would end before the heating season starts, giving them time enough to restock Europe's gas tanks.

About a third of Ozon's shares, Russia's biggest online marketplace, was bought by oligarch Gennady Timchenko on behalf of Russian President Vladimir

Petrol was on sale at fewer than a third of Russian filling stations this month, and the Ukrainian supermarket chain ATB began capping purchases on August 28 due to Russian drone attacks.

Frozen ground is thawing faster each summer almost everywhere it has been measured, according to the first global assessment of long-term monitoring data, and that threatens to set off a CO₂ giga-bomb in the coming decade.

Azerbaijan's banks are expanding credit more than 15 times faster than the economy they lend into, with profits up a quarter and a bad-loan surge abruptly stalling.

Six months into the war around the Strait of Hormuz, the world's emergency oil reserves are close to spent.

European officials say they have no evidence that Russia is preparing a conventional attack on Nato or on a Baltic state.

Slovakia's banks made more money on paper in the first half but less in real terms, as Prime Minister Robert Fico's reinstated levy eats into the earnings of a sector owned almost entirely from abroad.