A Bosnian worker cuts wood by the roadside at the northern entrance to Sarajevo, on Jan. 8. Small entrepreneurs have started selling wood and coal after deliveries of Russian natural gas to Bosnia were stopped on Tuesday evening.
SOFIA/BELGRADE, Jan 8 (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of people across the Balkans went without heating on Thursday and more factories closed as the impact on the hardest-hit region in the Russia-Ukraine gas row continued to grow.Full Story Today, 13:20 | Reuters
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) A U.S. Navy commander will lead a new international force to battle pirates off the coast of Somalia.Full StoryToday, 15:45
PARIS, Jan 8 (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday that she expected quick results from Ukraine and Russia in settling their gas dispute.Full StoryToday, 15:15
Brussels, January 8 (Interfax-Ukraine) - The head of a delegation of the European Parliament for cooperation with Ukraine, Adrian Severin, has said that the situation with gas supplies to the European Union states is a political crisis, and the European Union is a political participant.Full Story Today, 14:03 | Interfax-Ukraine
MOSCOW (AP) _ The heads of the Russian and Ukrainian gas companies held an unexpected meeting in Moscow early Thursday to discuss the dispute that has caused an energy crisis in Europe, but both sides said no breakthrough was reached.Full Story Today, 13:27 | Associated Press
The respective heads of national JSC Naftogaz Ukrainy and Russian gas giant Gazprom, Oleh Dubyna and Alexei Miller, are in Brussels, where trilateral talks on settling the gas dispute between Ukraine and Russia will be held with the participation of the European Commission, Naftogaz Ukrainy spokesman, Valentyn Zemliansky, has told Interfax-Ukraine.Full Story Today, 11:57 | Interfax-Ukraine
Brussels, January 8 (Interfax) - Gazprom chief executive officer Alexei Miller has arrived in Brussels for bilateral talks with European Union leaders, Gazprom spokesman Sergei Kupriyanov told Interfax.Full Story Today, 11:55 | Interfax-Ukraine
Jan 8 (Reuters) - Russian gas flows via Ukraine were halted for a second straight day on Thursday, hitting 18 countries ranging from large European Union members such as Germany to small ex-Soviet Moldova.Full Story Today, 11:13 | Reuters
BUDAPEST, Jan 8 (Reuters) - Hungary plans to use some of its strategic gas reserves on Thursday to ensure supplies to households and most industrial users as it is still not getting any Russian gas via Ukraine, Energy Minister Csaba Molnar said.Full StoryToday, 11:12
Vilnus, January 8 (Interfax) - Andrius Kubilius, Lithuanian prime minister has blamed Russia for "gas war" between Russia and Ukraine and for suspension of gas supplies to some European states.Full Story Today, 11:02 | Interfax-Ukraine
Jan 7 (Reuters) - A huge drop in Russian gas exports to
Europe since Jan. 2 has forced many countries to start draining reserves, which ranged from 69 to 81 percent full on Jan. 5, according to data from gas storage operators.Full Story Today, 10:11 | ReutersArchive
A Bosnian worker cuts wood by the roadside at the northern entrance to Sarajevo, on Jan. 8. Small entrepreneurs have started selling wood and coal after deliveries of Russian natural gas to Bosnia were stopped on Tuesday evening.
