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 The United Kingdom announced on Monday new sanctions over referendums in the DPR, LPR, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, the UK Foreign Office said in a statement.

New Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng confirmed many of the rumours swirling around his autumn statement on Friday. But his estimate of the cost to the taxpayer of the government's cap on energy bills was way below those of economists.

Soaring gas prices in Moldova will rise further by more than 27% next month, the country’s energy regulator says

The price of firewood in France is soaring due to heightened demand amid the energy crisis, BFMTV reports

India is unlikely to join global recession, as it’s “decoupled” from global markets, rating agency S&P said on Tuesday

Head of the economic bureau of Turkey's Vatan Party, Hakan Topkurulu, on Wednesday called on the government to take a firm stand regarding the Russian Mir payment system and not succumb to US pressure.

ATMs of Kazakhstan's People’s Savings Bank (Halyk Bank) will temporarily not service cards of the Russian payment system Mir, but other types of payment with Mir cards remain available, Sputnik learned from the bank's call center on Wednesday.

The catastrophic floods ravaged the country's cash-strapped economy, with initial estimates suggesting financial losses of around $30 billion. The Shehbaz Sharif-led government has been seeking assistance from foreign governments to overcome the crisis.

France has warned that European electricity prices could surge tenfold next year, compared to 2021

More than half of US student loan borrowers say they will not be able to afford their loan payments when the current moratorium expires in January, according to a Morning Consult poll released Thursday.

Cuba will begin accepting Russia's Mir payment cards by the end of the year, Minister of Tourism Juan Carlos Garcia Granda said on Wednesday.

Tamas Menczer, Hungary’s state secretary for foreign affairs and trade, has predicted an easing of the sanctions on Russia

After the US Bureau of Labor Statistics released its monthly Consumer Price Index (CPI) report on September 13, showing inflation had remained high, the New York Stock Exchange

Visa, Mastercard and American Express have announced they will mark all purchases at gun stores with a new merchant code

Russia’s Ministry of Finance expects over $8 billion in additional revenues from energy exports in August and September