#BREAKING New UK PM vows to fix post-Brexit gridlock in N.Ireland
#UPDATE New UK Prime Minister Liz Truss has promised to end bitter wrangling over post-Brexit trade in Northern Ireland, that has soured relations between London and Brussels
#UPDATE New UK Prime Minister Liz Truss on Wednesday said she hoped talks with the EU could help resolve a dispute over post-Brexit trade in Northern Ireland.
"My preference is for a negotiated solution," she told MPs in parliament u.afp.com/wvnc
#UPDATE At her first parliamentary grilling as British prime minister, #LizTruss on Wednesday confirmed plans to stem huge rises in the cost of energy that threaten to plunge her new government into a winter of discontent u.afp.com/wvnS
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#BREAKING EU proposes five billion euros in financial aid to Ukraine: von der Leyen
#UPDATE The European Commission has proposed €5 billion in financial aid to Ukraine, in the latest instalment of a promised nine-billion-euro rescue package agreed by EU leaders in May.
📸 Ukraine PM Denys Schmyhal (left) and European Commission chief Ursula Von der Leyen
#BREAKING EU chief proposes cap on price of Russian gas
#BREAKING Chelsea sack manager Thomas Tuchel: club
#UPDATE Chelsea announced on Wednesday they had sacked manager Thomas Tuchel just seven games into the season
#UPDATE Chelsea on Wednesday sacked manager Thomas Tuchel just seven games into the season following a chastening 1-0 Champions League defeat at Dinamo Zagreb #AFPSports u.afp.com/wvW5
#BREAKING Putin denies Russia using energy as 'weapon' against Europe
#UPDATE Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday denied that Moscow was using energy as a "weapon", days after Russia halted natural gas deliveries via a key pipeline to Europe
#BREAKING Putin says Russia will stop oil and gas supplies if price caps imposed
#BREAKING 12 dead, 11 injured in Vietnam karaoke bar fire: local official
#UPDATE A fire has torn through a karaoke bar in southern Vietnam killing 12 people and injuring 11, officials say.
The blaze engulfed the second and third floors of the four-storey building, trapping customers and staff as dense smoke filled the staircase, state media report
#BREAKING Death toll jumps to 23 in Vietnam karaoke bar fire: local official
UN's atomic watchdog calls for a security zone to be set up around Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which is occupied by Russia, as the area was hit by more shelling
#BREAKING Russia says 'not expecting changes' in relations with new Britain PM Truss
#BREAKING Outgoing UK PM Johnson vows to support successor Truss 'every step of the way'
#UPDATE Russia is not expecting any changes to its frosty relations with Britain under new PM Liz Truss, Kremlin says.
"Judging by statements made by Madame Truss when she was still foreign minister... one can say with much certainty that no changes for the better are expected"