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Philippine victims of a 2021 typhoon are seeking compensation from energy giant Shell for damage that they say was intensified by climate change worsened by the oil and gas company's carbon emissions

Assets in US belonging to Rosneft and Lukoil frozen as shares in Shell and BP rise by 3%

Trump cancels meeting with Putin and signals sanctions, expert warns of early flu season in China

EU leaders will look Thursday to greenlight a potential mammoth new loan for Ukraine using Russian frozen assets, in a bid to bolster Kyiv as US President Donald Trump vacillates on peace efforts with Moscow.

Sir Keir Starmer said allies had agreed a ‘clear plan for the rest of the year’ on supporting Ukraine

Crude prices spiked more than two percent Thursday after Donald Trump said he would hit two Russian oil companies with hefty sanctions, while talk that the White House was planning curbs on software exports to China added to gloom on markets.

In a sweeping escalation of economic pressure on Russia, the U.S. Department of the Treasury said that it will be imposing full blocking sanctions on its two largest oil companies, Rosneft and Lukoil, citing Moscow’s “lack of serious commitment to a peace process to end the war in Ukraine.”

Trump, who has to date not put sanctions on Russia over the war and instead relied on trade measures, says Rosneft and Lukoil will be targeted. Key US politics stories from Wednesday 22 October

Trump says he canceled meeting with Putin because ‘we have good conversations but then they don’t go anywhere’