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Global oil demand growth will taper off over the next few years as high prices and Russia’s invasion

Watch live as the International Committee of the Red Cross holds a briefing on the Ukraine dam situation and the organisation's visits to prisoners of war. The Nova Kakhova dam, which was under Russian control, was breached on the morning of 6 June, with water surging through it and causing extensive flooding in Kherson - prompting the evacuation of thousands of people. Damage to the area can be seen from space, with huge areas of land submerged in water. As of Tuesday, 13 June, the death toll from flooding in two Russian-controlled towns in southern Ukraine has risen to 17 in the wake of the dam's collapse, a Russian-installed official in Kherson said. It is not clear how the dam was breached. Ukrainian forces have accused Russia of deliberately destroying the dam; Russia says the destruction was an act of "sabotage" by Ukraine to deprive the annexed Crimean peninsula of water. Read More The Body in the Woods | An Independent TV Original Documentary The harrowing discovery at centre of The Independent’s new documentary

The website of the port of Rotterdam was targeted in a cyberattack blamed on Russia-aligned hackers last week.

France moved closer to securing a carve-out from the European Union’s plans to massively scale up renewable energy

Slovakia needs to rein in public spending to keep its credibility on financial markets, according to the nation’s

Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang told Secretary of State Antony Blinken the US should stop hurting China’s security

Ken Griffin, whose hedge fund churned out a record $16 billion for clients last year, is increasing his

Donald Trump urged prosecutors to drop the charges against him and insisted on his innocence in his first

Goldman Sachs pushed up its inflation projections for Japan, driving them further above the central bank’s forecasts and

India’s frequent and arbitrary internet shutdowns hurt its most impoverished, who depend on government social protection programs, according

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is unlikely to call an election next month, but will probably delay it

Russian president Vladimir Putin said that if necessary Russia would use weapons with depleted uranium in response to reports that the United States would supply such weapons to Ukraine. The Wall Street Journal reported earlier on Tuesday that the US was set to approve depleted uranium tank rounds for Kyiv. Depleted uranium is a dense by-product left over when uranium is enriched for use in nuclear reactors or nuclear weapons. The rounds retain some radioactive properties, but cannot generate a nuclear reaction as a nuclear weapon would. In March 2023, the UK said it would supply armour piercing munitions containing depleted uranium to Ukraine to help destroy Russian tanks. Putin falsely claimed that these weapons had a “nuclear component.” Meanwhile, Russia launched a “massive” attack overnight on the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih, killing at least ten people and wounding 28 others. “As of 1300 (1000 GMT) 10 people have been killed,” city mayor Oleksandr Vilkul said in a Telegram post, adding that another person was under the rubble and a further 28 were injured. Read More Russia losing 900 soldiers a day during counteroffensive, Ukrainian officials claim Putin mixes threats of new offensive in Ukraine with offers of peace talks UN nuclear chief says large Ukraine atomic power plant held by Russia faces 'dangerous situation'