President Putin is expected to win Russia's first parliamentary election since launching the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Release date: 18 September 2026

The three-day vote will fill 450 Duma seats and 11 regional governorships, with only parties backing Putin and Russia's ongoing war in Ukraine on the ballot. Despite official denials of a new draft,

Voting got underway on ⁠Friday ⁠in a three-day parliamentary ⁠election in Russia which President Vladimir Putin has framed ​as a barometer of support for Russia's war in Ukraine. It is the first ‌parliamentary election since Russia launched ‌its full-scale war in Ukraine in February 2022,

Russian State Duma elections will be held in occupied Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia amid accusations of armed voter intimidation.

The US war with Iran has cost $45.1 billion, the Pentagon informed Congress on Friday, according to one source familiar with the matter.

The House adopted a resolution to curb the president's war powers by a vote of 220-204 on Tuesday night, the sixth time the House has passed a resolution recently.

Shortly after the United States launched into a war with Iran, White House economic adviser Peter Navarro boldly proclaimed that the conflict would "lower energy prices." More than six months later—with the war still raging on and the Trump administration ignoring congressional demands to end it—that's turned out to be as laughably false as the promise that the whole thing would be wrapped up in a few weeks.

Average prices for diesel and gas in the United States have reached record highs during the prolonged conflict with Iran. President Trump emphasizes that the economic burden should be seen in the context of preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons,

Both the EU and Canada have been facing stiff rivalry and pressure from Trump's administration on trade and from an increasingly assertive China.

Canada isn’t likely to join the European Union anytime soon. But President Donald Trump’s immediate and draconian threat on Wednesday to impose “serious tariffs” or cease trading with Europe if it does underscores how seriously the administration regards efforts from other countries to band together and counter U.

"If I think it's at all a hostile act, I will put very serious tariffs or stop trading with Europe on many things," Trump threatened.

President Donald Trump suggested that the European Union allowing Canada to become an associate member could be a “hostile act” and threatened to respond to the proposed move by imposing more tariffs

A shooting at a high school in the southern Philippines has left two 14-year-old students and the teenage gunman dead. Local officials say at least eight people were wounded. The shooting occurred

The suspected shooter, a student at the school, also died, officials said. It was the third high-profile school shooting in the Philippines in recent months.

Three students were killed in a school shooting in the southern Philippines on Friday, including a 16-year-old suspected gunman who turned the gun on himself, provincial officials said.

At least ​three people were killed and eight injured in a shooting at a high school in the southern Philippines, police and local officials say. The incident occurred on Friday afternoon at Banga National High School in Banga,

Japan’s central bank on Friday raised the benchmark interest rate to 1.25% from 1.0%, a 31-year-high. The Bank of Japan has been trying to normalize monetary policy after decades of keeping interest rates near or below zero to try to encourage more borrowing and spending to counter deflation and pull Japan’s economy out of the doldrums.

Japan’s central bank on Friday raised the benchmark interest rate to 1.25% from 1.0%, a 31-year-high. View on euronews

The Bank of Japan delivered the fastest rate increase of its current cycle to counter persistent inflation and ease the impact of a weak yen.

The Bank of Japan raised rates to 1.25%, and markets will be watching Governor Kazuo Ueda's remarks for ​clues on the timing of further increases to counter inflation.

The palace issued a rare public rebuke of claims made in the new book, which alleged that King Charles III was "giddily elated" after Diana's death.

Buckingham Palace is pushing back on allegations made against King Charles by his former brother-in-law in an upcoming book about Princess Diana.

Buckingham Palace denies a claim by Princess Diana's brother that King Charles III said she would soon be forgotten after her death

Spencer says in the book that he spoke to Charles shortly after Diana's death ⁠was confirmed, writing: "Unlike my other callers, who were stunned, barely able to articulate thei