Ethiopia says a second turbine of a controversial dam over the Blue Nile has started generating electricity.

Congress is poised to pass a transformative climate change fighting bill.

More than 1,000 firefighters in France are struggling to contain a huge wildfire burning through pine forests.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and senior ministers have held inconclusive talks with energy companies amid mounting pressure to help people cope with soaring gas and electricity prices.

South Korea’s capital Seoul will move to phase out semi-basement flats after two women and a teenager died during flooding earlier this week.

Russians are snapping up Western fashion and furniture this week as H&M and IKEA sell off the last of their inventory in Russia.

China has repeated military threats against Taiwan while appearing to wind down wargames near the self-governing island it claims as its own territory.

India’s phenomenal transformation from an impoverished nation in 1947 into an emerging global power whose $3 trillion economy is Asia’s third largest has made it a major exporter of things like software and vaccines.

China says its drills were prompted by the visit to the island last week by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, but Joseph Wu said China was using her trip as a pretext for intimidating moves it has long had in the works.

Annual inflation in Denmark came at 8.7% last month — rising at the fastest pace since 1983 — while the figure in neighboring Norway reached 6.8%.