In July 2020, a few months after the Covid-19 pandemic escalated and spiraled out of control, Shell CEO Ben van Beurden announced that global oil demand may have crossed its peak and will not return to what it was. "It's going to take a long time for demand to recover, that's if it recovers...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A presidential adviser says Ukraine lost control of the Chernobyl nuclear site, where Ukranian forces had waged a fierce battle with Russian troops. Adviser Myhailo Podolyak told The Associated Press that Ukrainian authorities did not know the current condition of the...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — NATO's secretary-general says Russia has launched war on Ukraine and shattered peace on the European continent. Jens Stoltenberg called for a summit of NATO alliance leaders for Friday. Russia launched a wide-ranging attack on Ukraine on Thursday, hitting cities...

Although Ukrainians had been warned for weeks that war with Russia was imminent, when the attacks finally came Thursday many seemed not to know how to react. Civil defense sirens wailed in the air of the capital, Kyiv, in the gray and drizzly morning, but the city's main street Khreshchatyk...