Sanctions on Russia were introduced two years ago shortly after the start of the country's Ukrainian invasion. The purpose? To limit the Russian war machine and starve Russian oligarchs of access to luxury items.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is planning attacks on Ukraine's nuclear power plants, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said....
Lebanon "is already at war", its health minister has said, as he revealed nearly half a million people have been displaced due to Israel's airstrikes....
The president of the European Council has defended the bloc's sanctions regime, saying it is fine-tuned and calibrated every week, after Sky News showed luxury cars being sent over the Russian border....
As night draws across the eastern front medical teams wait nervously behind the frontline....
The prime minister has told Britons in Lebanon to "leave immediately" as around 700 UK troops are deploying to Cyprus in a case an emergency evacuation is needed, with fears growing of all-out war between Israel and Hezbollah....
Bird flu could be "evolving under the radar" because of failures to monitor and control the spread of the virus, a leading pandemic scientist has warned....
Lebanon will be in a "very difficult place" if Hezbollah "gambles more" in a conflict with Israel, a Lebanese government minister has told Sky News....
A senior minister has said UK government departments responsible for implementing sanctions will take seriously Sky News reports showing new British luxury cars being moved across the border into Russia....
TikTok has said it's removed accounts associated with Russian state media for "engaging in covert influence operations"....
The Caucasus Mountain range in Georgia is one of the great sights in the south of Europe. Towering peaks, higher than any in the Alps, rise up from green meadows and grassy hills covered in wildflowers. Winding roads thread through deep valleys, overlooked by ornate Orthodox churches and monasteries...
After Lebanon's bloodiest day in almost two decades, the big question is whether this is the start of a much bigger war....
Israel will do "whatever is necessary" to push Hezbollah from its northern border with Lebanon, its military spokesman has said....
Former defence secretary Sir Ben Wallace has denied he lacked curiosity when allegations of war crimes by British soldiers were brought to him....
A former chief spokesperson for Gazprom, the Russian state-owned energy giant, is fighting in Ukraine - against Russia - and has just ditched his Russian passport for a Ukrainian one....
The mood is sombre and uncertain as 140 world leaders converge on New York for the UN's annual meeting....
Russian forces have hit a multi-storey apartment block in Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, local officials say....
A fire has ripped through a Russian missile depot in the Tver region deep inside the country after it was targeted in a Ukrainian drone attack, the defence ministry in Moscow has said....
Even after exploding pagers, thousands of casualties and the killing of a top Hezbollah commander in an Israeli airstrike, the UK and other allies are still hoping that all-out war between Israel and the Iran-backed militant group in Lebanon can be avoided....
A Lebanese government minister has accused Israel of committing war crimes "in a blatant way and without immediate condemnation", in an interview with Sky News. ...
Hezbollah's leader has accused Israel of carrying out "massacres" with pager and walkie-talkie explosions, saying it wanted to kill "5,000 people in two minutes"....
The sun is burning in the morning sky, the heat is intense, the humidity suffocating....
The West still relies on the Russian nuclear power industry and vice versa, a review has warned....
The suspected conversion by Israel of basic communication devices into bombs to attack Hezbollah demonstrates the deadly and confusing potential of unconventional warfare....
The Middle East is the closest it has been to regional war in 50 years, Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the UK has warned. ...
Shakhtar Donetsk have spent a decade in exile, bombed out of their home by Russian forces....
The UK and its Five Eyes allies have issued a cyber attack warning over a China-backed "botnet" of more than 260,000 compromised devices....
From exploding Hezbollah pagers and walkie-talkies to a cyber attack on an Iranian nuclear facility, Israel is suspected of carrying out a number of secretive operations over the years....
Russian officials are accusing Meta of "overt censorship" after the company banned Russian state media networks from its apps....
A drone attack has destroyed a Russian weapons arsenal storing missiles, bombs and ammunition, according to a Ukrainian security source....