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As countries become more desperate for energy alternatives, some are heading toward nuclear power. The nuclear power plant Isar 2 pictured in Essenbach, Germany on Mar 3, 2022 (AP) Nuclear power is becoming more popular as countries look for alternatives with the cost of importing energy growing globally and climate crises causing…

Millions of Ukrainians have been displaced by fightingOthers are still being evacuated as the war grinds onSome residents refuse to leave their homesKOSTIANTYNIVKA, Ukraine, Nov 14 (Reuters) - Olha Skachkova and her son, 11-year-old Denys, climbed out of an armoured van which had just whisked them out of their home town of Toretsk, close to the…

What to watch in Asia todayFT reportersThe UK’s Prince Edward holds a punching bag for Marlon Sevehon at the Police Citizens Youth Centre in Sydney on Tuesday © Jaimi Joy/Australian Associated Press/dpa via ReutersEvents: The Nagoya High Court is scheduled to hand down ruling on a lawsuit for damages filed by evacuees against Japan’s government…

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureUkrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy has called for stronger international response to Russia’s “nuclear terror” after reported new shelling at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power plant. During a phone call with European Council President Charles Michel, Zelenskiy called…

Mali’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Abdoulaye Diop, in a Monday letter to the U.N. Security Council’s president for August, accused France of supporting “terrorist groups.”The letter said there were more than 50 “deliberate violations of Malian airspace” by foreign aircraft, “particularly operated by French forces,” and listed several incidents…

A recently published study from Deutsche Bank’s International Private Bank (IPB) found that many German family-owned businesses fare better in complex crises like the Covid pandemic. Why is that and what can other companies learn from them? The analysis, conducted by the IPB’s Head of Investment Banking…

The Japanese government plans to roll out a new type of COVID-19 vaccine considered effective for the Omicron variant as early as October, sources familiar with the matter said Friday. The so-called bivalent vaccine combines ingredients used for existing COVID-19 shots and those derived from the BA.1 subtype of the Omicron…

A 50-year-old man was sentenced to three years and eight months in prison on Friday in the southwestern German city of Pforzheim for stealing around 20 kilograms (44.1 pounds) of gold shavings from his workplace. The man worked in a wedding ring factory in Pforzheim, the German jewelery town. As the precious metal had to be sawn to the right…

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Thursday embarked on a four-day trip to the United Arab Emirates to attend a U.N. conference on climate change, during which he is expected to hold talks with Israeli President Isaac Herzog. Kishida is slated to take part in a summit-level gathering of the 28th session of the…

The two-plus weeks Biden has spent with just his German Shepherd for company have proved some of the weightiest of his presidency, with his once-bleak legislative fortunes enjoying a surprise turnabout and his foreign policy shaken by events across the globe. Even some White House staffers said they felt a certain degree of whiplash, and Biden…