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EU countries have reached agreements on proposed laws to combat climate change on Wednesday night. They backed the phasing out of new fossil fuel-powered cars by 2035 and the creation of a multi-billion-euro fund to protect poorer citizens from spending on products that produce carbon dioxide, Reuters reported.

The Ukraine war has taken center stage at a NATO summit in Madrid on June 29, while Finland and Sweden will be formally invited to join the alliance after Türkiye dropped its opposition.

He wanted to see Russia fall apart.
"Dick wanted to see the collapse not only of the Soviet Union, but of Russia itself, so that it would never again be a threat to the rest of the world," CIA Director Robert Gates wrote in his memoirs.

In the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, thousands of Russians have headed to Serbia, where now face rebuilding lives and finding work - and dealing with strong pro-Kremlin sentiments.

The Minister Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation in Sofia Philip Voskresensky - the highest-ranking diplomat, among the 70 who must leave Bulgaria by July 3, announced that the country's consular services in Bulgaria have stopped working. The reason is that they are left without staff to do their job.

The mood among German consumers has reached an all-time low, according to a key survey published yesterday, as the war in Ukraine drives a painful wave of inflation.

Ukraine plans to ban many books in Russian as part of a wartime battle against propaganda, but the new law has divided both literature fans and booksellers alike.

"We must not confuse Russian fascism with Russian culture," said Olexander Drobin, a bookseller at the massive Petrivka book market in the capital, Kiev.

After Turkey struck a deal with Sweden and Finland, that requires them to change their counter-terrorism laws to suit Ankara and that will thus permit NATO to unanimously issue invitations for them to join the Alliance tomorrow, Athens is focused on whether Erdogan will table his demands for the demilitarisation of Greek Eastern Aegean islands at the ongoing NATO summit.

At a meeting with his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko, Russian President Vladimir Putin did not discuss the handover of missiles with nuclear weapons to Minsk.
These are systems that are technically capable of carrying various types of weapons, said the spokesman of the Russian leader, Dmitry Peskov.

The leaders of the G7 member states said that they would be with Ukraine for as long as necessary.
The Ukrainian army is trying to leave Lysychansk while the Russian assault forces are already deep in the city.
The United Nations Security Council will hold an emergency meeting on Ukraine.

"Putin could attack outside Ukraine"