Market researcher Kantar also reported UK grocery price inflation of 7%, its highest level since May 2009

Distance 'no longer relevant' in a world where rockets can travel 600km, warns French ambassador to Ireland

A growing world food crisis is precipitating protectionist moves by countries which are likely to compound the problem and could lead to a wider trade war, business leaders and policymakers at the World Economic Forum in Davos said.

Heavy fighting is raging in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region where Russian forces have stepped up their bombardment beyond the frontlines, the UK’s Ministry of Defence has said.

Russian invasion of Ukraine an 'existential threat' to EU

A veteran Kremlin diplomat has resigned and sent a letter to foreign colleagues condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, as heavy fighting raged in the Donbas region, where Moscow’s forces have stepped up their bombardment.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin also said he did not believe practice of TDs sleeping in their cars because they could not get a hotel room was 'a widespread phenomenon'

Security Correspondent Cormac O’Keeffe approached a number of experts and politicians seeking answers to three pertinent questions

A Ukrainian court has sentenced a 21-year-old Russian soldier to life in prison for killing a Ukrainian civilian – following the first war crimes trial since Russia’s invasion.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called for “maximum” sanctions against Russia during a virtual speech on the first day of the World Economic Forum gathering of corporate executives, government officials and other VIPs in Davos, Switzerland.

Civilians fleeing the war in the east of Ukraine have described scenes of devastation after their towns and villages came under sustained attacks from Russian forces.

After three months of war, Russia faces a summer of economic misery, one expert said.

Russian forces are bombarding a key city in eastern Ukraine with artillery and missiles in an attempt to take more of the Donbas region.

The online platform has removed over 70,000 videos that violate content guidelines, such as referring to the invasion as a 'liberation mission'

'The war will not stop. It will just be put on pause for some time,' said Ukrainian Presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak 

The Finnish state-owned gas company Gasum said that “natural gas supplies to Finland under Gasum’s supply contract have been cut off” by Russia on Saturday morning at 7am local time

The funding is intended to support Ukraine through September, and it dwarfs an earlier emergency measure that provided $13.6bn dollars.

The complete takeover of Mariupol gives Putin a badly needed victory in the war he began on February 24 — a conflict that was supposed to have been a lightning conquest for the Kremlin

Briefings in the US that the Pentagon may send Ukraine sophisticated anti-ship missiles to sink Russian vessels blockading ports in the Black Sea and unlock food on which much of the world depends offer the prospect of one of the most dangerous ...

Russian forces have taken full control of the steel plant in Mariupol that was the last stronghold of Ukrainian resistance in the city, Moscow’s defence minister said.

Russian commanders will be coming under increasing pressure to reallocate troops from the strategic southern Ukrainian port city of Mariupol to bolster their offensive in eastern Ukraine, the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has said.

Roman Abramovich slipped out of the top 20 after the value of their assets was hammered by financial measures in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The 75-year-old former president jokingly blamed the mistake on his age, shaking his head and correcting himself, drawing laughter from the crowd.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has accused Russia of weaponising food and holding grain for millions of people around the world hostage to help “break the spirit of the Ukrainian people”.

The McDonald's restaurants in Russia will be sold to Alexander Govor, who runs the franchise operation through his firm GiD

President Joe Biden has supported applications by Sweden and Finland to join Nato as Russia’s war in the heart of Europe challenges the continent’s security.

The Senate has overwhelmingly approved a 40 billion dollar (£32bn) infusion of military and economic aid for Ukraine as both parties rallied behind America’s latest financial salvo against Russia’s invasion.

He jokingly blamed the mistake on his age as the audience burst into laughter.

The draft resolution is not binding, but puts significant pressure on the EU to act against Europeans seen as being close to the Kremlin.

“The influx of vulnerable women and girls into Europe led to an immediate interest in men to exploit them.”