The first Highline World Championships in Switzerland was full of daring as contestants competed against each other in events for both speed and acrobatics on a slackline at an altitude of 2,252 metres on the summit of Crap Sogn Gion mountain.
With the maintenance period on the Nord Stream 1 pipeline set to end, Europe is waiting in apprehension to see whether Russia fulfils its contractural obligations and opens up the fuel taps again. But Russian President Vladimir Putin has tactical reasons of his own for wanting to keep Europe on edge.
A full cut-off of Russian gas supplies to Europe, combined with a cold winter, could reduce average European Union gross domestic product by up to 1.5 per cent if bloc countries do not prepare in advance with voluntary cuts over the coming months, the European Commission said Wednesday.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says the geographical objectives of Moscow's "special military operation" in Ukraine are no longer limited to the eastern Donbas region, according to a published report on Wednesday.
Sri Lankan lawmakers chose six-time Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe as president Wednesday to succeed the ousted leader who fled the country, in a vote that risks reigniting political turmoil in the troubled South Asian island nation.
