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Asian stock markets are mixed after strong U.S. jobs data cleared the way for more interest rate hikes and China reported its exports rose by double digits.

“This time a nuclear catastrophe was miraculously avoided, but miracles cannot last forever,” Ukraine’s state nuclear power company Energoatom said Sunday.

Cuban firefighters have been joined by special teams sent by Mexico and Venezuela as they battle for a second day to control a fire blazing at a big oil tank farm

A Lebanese Cabinet minister and the Ukrainian embassy say the scheduled arrival of the first grain ship to leave Ukraine and cross the Black Sea under a wartime deal has been delayed

Oksana Pokalchuk's resignation comes after Amnesty International released a report accusing Ukraine of endangering civilians.

The shelling of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southeastern Ukraine highlights the potential for “catastrophic consequences”

Griner should serve her full sentence

The International Atomic Energy Agency director general urged Russia and Ukraine to allow a mission of experts access to the facility to help secure it.

Urgent responses from farmers and governments after Russia blockaded grain shipments provide a roadmap to facing future crises as threats to world food networks multiply.

Russia and Ukraine are accusing one another of shelling the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, as fighting continues in the south on Saturday.

Brittney Griner, who was in Russia to play for a local team during the WNBA off-season, was detained over vape carriages containing cannabis oil in her luggage.

Football, basketball, baseball, no sport is safe from homecoming hugs. These military reunions make everyone forget about the scoreboard.

A fire accompanied by explosions at a police ammunition dump in a Berlin forest has been contained and large parts of it have been extinguished, but authorities are still waiting to get access to the dump itself

Three ships are exporting grain from Ukraine’s Black Sea ports. President Biden described Brittney Griner’s sentencing as “unacceptable."

The US says it has a "serious proposal" for Moscow that would secure the release of the basketball star.

Pakistani police say suspected separatists threw a grenade at a roadside store selling national flags in southwestern Baluchistan province, killing a man and wounding 14 people

The technology is expected to greatly enhance Tehran’s ability to spy on military targets across the Middle East.

The judge in the WNBA star's case could rule by Thursday evening.

Moscow said the Norwegian consul's "insulting Russophobic remarks" made her staying in Russia "impossible."

Lebanon’s transport minister has tweeted that a Syrian ship that Ukraine says is carrying stolen Ukrainian grain has left a Lebanese port

The president noted that the constitution cannot be changed during wartime.

The U.N. will investigate a prison blast that killed Ukrainian prisoners of war. Volodymyr Zelensky wants to “talk directly” with Chinese leader Jinping.

Anatoly Chubais in March became the highest official to cut ties with the Kremlin since Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Seven more NATO countries must give the green light to the expansion of the alliance, which was spurred by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Stacey Abrams, Georgia’s Democratic nominee for governor, joins Yahoo News National Reporter Marquise Francis to discuss her views on the state-level battles over abortion access. “It is a medical decision, and while your faith tradition may tell you that you personally do not want to make that choice, it is not my right as a Christian to impose that value system on someone else,” Abrams tells Yahoo News. “It should always be that abortion care is available until a fetus is viable, unless that viability threatens the life of the mother.”

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The U.N. says the ship is carrying more than 26,000 tons of grain that's been locked up in Ukraine amid the country's ongoing war with Russia.

A massive fire has engulfed a warehouse outside Moscow, killing at least one person and injuring 13 others.

A massive fire engulfed a warehouse outside Moscow on Wednesday, killing at least one person, injuring 13 others and leaving two missing, officials said. The fire, at a warehouse belonging to Russia's leading online retailer, Ozon, affected an area of 50,000 square meters (540,000 square feet). Emergencies officials said that one person died in the fire, and Moscow region Gov. Andrei Vorobyov said that two people are unaccounted-for.

Ukraine’s ambassador to Lebanon is insisting that a Syrian ship docked at a Lebanese port is carrying stolen Ukrainian grain and urged Lebanon to block the ship from leaving

Kansas voters voted to protect abortion rights as the issue faced its first test at the ballot box since the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade. Also, fresh threats from China against the United States, as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visits leaders in Taiwan. All that and all that matters in today's Eye Opener.

UKRAINSKA PRAVDA - WEDNESDAY, 3 AUGUST 2022, 15:06 The launch of eight Kh-101 (Kh-555) missiles on Ukraine by the occupying forces on 2 August cost Russia almost US$100 million. Source: Oleh Nikolenko, spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, on Twitter; Forbes Ukraine Quote from Nikolenko: "Putin is consigning Russia to poverty with his criminal war, instead of investing in its future.

Paris’ regional authorities have warned residents to be vigilant as temperatures soar to 36 degrees Celsius (97 Fahrenheit)

The first grain ship to leave Odessa is now off the coast of Turkey and is due to be inspected under the U.N.-brokered agreement with Russia.

But the RAC motoring group warned major retailers should be cutting pump prices further.

The Treasury Department added Alina Kabaeva, a former star gymnast thought to be Russian President Vladimir Putin's romantic partner, to its sanctions list.

Russia accused the US of approving missile targets, while Russian soldiers steal sunflower seeds.

Russia is building a new ground-based laser facility for interfering with satellites orbiting overhead, according to a recent report. Here's what that means.

Judicial officials say Lebanon’s prosecutor general has granted permission for a Syrian ship said to be carrying Ukrainian grain stolen by Russia to leave a port in the country’s north

The House speaker's trip to Taiwan signals to senior politicians around the world that they can show support for Taiwan’s democracy in person — despite vocal opposition from Beijing.

BP’s earnings have tripled in the second quarter as the British energy giant profited from oil and natural gas prices that soared after Russia invaded Ukraine.

WNBA player Brittney Griner is due to return to a Moscow court in her first appearance since the Biden administration proposed a prisoner exchange with Russia.

The WNBA star appeared in a Moscow court for the first time since news broke of a proposed prisoner exchange that would free her and former Marine Paul Whelan.

"We're deeply concerned about the fact that Russia has taken over nuclear facilities in Ukraine," Secretary of State Antony Blinken said at the start of a U.N. conference.

War in Ukraine: What you need to knowThe latest: The United Nations has expressed hope that the first grain shipments from blockaded Ukrainian ports could start Friday. The fight: Russia’s recent operational pause, which analysts identified in recent weeks as an effort to regroup troops before doubling down on Ukraine’s south and east, appears to be ending. The weapons: Ukraine is making use of weapons such as Javelin antitank missiles and Switchblade “kamikaze” drones, provided by the United States and other allies. Russia has used an array of weapons against Ukraine, some of which have drawn the attention and concern of analysts. How you can help: Here are ways those in the U.S. can help support the Ukrainian people as well as what people around the world have been donating.

The Red Cross says access to Olenivka prison has not been granted. The key Black Sea port of Mykolaiv was hit by shelling.

The ship's departure came after a U.N.-brokered agreement to ease a global food crisis sparked by Russia's invasion.

Turkey says the first ship carrying Ukrainian grain under a new agreement between Turkey, Russia, Ukraine and the United Nations will leave the Ukrainian port of Odesa on Monday bound for Lebanon.

Russia says it has invited the U.N. and Red Cross to investigate the deaths of Ukrainian prisoners of war at a detention center in Olenivka.

Officials say a drone-borne explosive device has detonated at the headquarters of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, injuring six people

Amnesty International and the E.U. condemned footage circulating online that appears to show pro-Russian fighters castrating and executing a captive Ukrainian fighter.

Egyptian authorities have released seven people, including a journalist and a researcher who were serving prison sentences on terror-related charges

The EU rejects Russia's demand that member states pay for Gazprom gas in roubles, not euros.

Spain’s prime minister has kicked off his tour of the Western Balkans with a visit to Serbia.

French President Emmanuel Macron says Russia's war on Ukraine is responsible for a global food shortage that is causing untold suffering in Africa.

Beautiful and serene in a crown of white flowers, 4-year-old Liza, who was killed Thursday by a Russian missile strike, has been buried in central Ukraine.

Inflation’s relentless surge didn’t merely persist in June. It accelerated.

Inflation’s relentless surge didn’t merely persist in June.

Ilona Khomenko was widowed nearly two months ago when her husband died in fighting in Sievierodonetsk in eastern Ukraine.

The Polish president says Poland and Israel have taken a step toward normalizing diplomatic ties as the Israeli ambassador officially presented his credentials in Warsaw.

European Union nations have approved fresh aid for Ukraine as the country faces growing economic damage from Russia’s invasion.

A staggering 71 million more people around the world are experiencing poverty as a result of soaring food and energy prices that climbed in the weeks following Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Syrians in the last major rebel stronghold of the war-torn country are living in fear of the effects of Russia closing down the only border crossing into the northwestern province of Idlib.

The head of the U.N. food agency is warning that the spike in food, fuel and fertilizer prices sparked by the war in Ukraine is threatening to push countries around the world into famine.

The head of the European Central Bank says it will move gradually to combat soaring consumer prices with interest rate hikes in July and September but will keep its options open to “stamp out” inflation if it surges faster than expected.

NATO secretary general Jens Stoltenberg says the military alliance wants to increase the strength of its rapid reaction forces from the current 40,000 to over 300,000.

A growing number of couples in Ukraine are speedily turning love into matrimony because of the war with Russia.

The head of the United Nations has warned the world faces “catastrophe” because of the growing shortage of food around the globe.

A diplomatic row at the bottom of the world is playing out between the normally allied U.S. and U.K. governments in response to provocations from Russia.

Elite swimmer Mykhailo Romanchuk doesn’t know if his father was able to see him winning a medal for Ukraine at the swimming world championships.

Nuclear Russia's pillaging of non-nuclear Ukraine is rattling what's already a destabilizing moment in nuclear nonproliferation efforts.

President Joe Biden sat down with The Associated Press to discuss the state of the economy, his concerns about the national mood and his commitment to standing up to Russia’s aggression in Ukraine.

Soaring gasoline prices have left many consumers with no choice but to cut spending on non-essentials, but it might be coming full circle by stopping some drivers from filling up their tanks.

The U.S. Open will allow tennis players from Russia and Belarus to compete this year despite the ongoing war in Ukraine.

The nationwide average price for a gallon of gasoline has topped $5 for the first time ever.

An airline industry group is criticizing the European Union's Parliament for seeking to expand its emissions trading system to long-haul flights.

The average cost of filling up a typical family car has exceeded 100 pounds, or $125, for the first time in Britain as Russia’s war in Ukraine drives gasoline prices higher.

Shares are mostly lower in Asia as investors watch for fresh signs of inflation.

China and Russia have defended their vetoes of a strongly backed U.S. resolution that would have imposed tough new sanctions on North Korea.

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development says Russia’s war in Ukraine and the energy and food crises it worsened will severely drag down global economic growth and push up inflation this year.

The World Bank has sharply downgraded its outlook for the global economy, pointing to Russia’s war against Ukraine, the prospect of widespread food shortages and concerns about the potential return of “stagflation” — a toxic mix of high inflation and sluggish growth unseen for more than four decades.

Barring an end to the war in Ukraine, athletes from Russia and Belarus will be banned from next month’s track and field world championships.

Marin Cilic has dominated a fifth-set tiebreaker against seventh-seeded Andrey Rublev to advance to his first French Open semifinal.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Thursday that U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration is aiming to lead the international bloc opposed to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine into a broader coalition to counter what it sees as a more serious, long-term threat to global order from China.

The risks to the global economy are leading to an increasingly gloomy view of the months ahead for corporate leaders, government officials and other VIPs gathered at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland.

A senior Turkish official says Turkey will not agree to Sweden and Finland joining NATO without “concrete steps in a certain timeframe” to address Ankara’s concerns.

Joe Biden spent his first presidential trip to Asia strengthening economic and military commitments.

Lesia Tsurenko is a professional tennis player from Ukraine who is trying to carry on with her career while her country is being invaded by Russia.

The head of the U.N.’s World Food Program is telling billionaires it’s “time to step up” as the global threat of food insecurity rises because of Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Starbucks is pulling out of the Russian market.

The State Department said Tuesday that it still pushing to have regular contact with WNBA star Brittney Griner, who has been detained in Russia for nearly three months.

Scotland's leader says the Russian war in Ukraine only makes Scotland’s drive for independence from the U.K. more important.

A jury has been picked in the trial of a lawyer for the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign who is accused of lying to the FBI as it investigated potential ties between Donald Trump and Russia in 2016.

Ukrainian band Kalush Orchestra has released a new music video, hours after its hit “Stefania” led it to victory in the Eurovision Song Contest.

Iran has abruptly raised prices as much as 300% for a variety of staples like oil, chicken, milk and eggs.

As the war between Russia and Ukraine shows no signs of slowing down, Ukrainians across their country to to heal as the bury the dead and salvage what is left of villages, towns and cities that have been destroyed by Russians.

Top diplomats from the Group of Seven wealthy nations have gathered in northern Germany for a three-day meeting centered on Russia’s war against Ukraine and the wider impact it is having around the world.

The Senate has confirmed economist Phillip Jefferson to the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors.

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The Federal Reserve no longer views the coronavirus pandemic as the biggest threat to the global financial system.