Bloomberg Ukraine is approaching the winter months with blackouts spreading across the country, as Russia’s missile campaign pummels power stations, grid networks and other civilian facilities. More than 10 million Ukrainians —about a quarter of the pre-war population — are without electricity, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in his overnight address Thursday, as the first snow fell in the capital ...

  Bloomberg Republicans plan to kill a special committee focused on climate change when they take control of the House next year, the top GOP member of the panel said. “The climate crisis committee will not exist,” Louisiana Representative Garret Graves, the top GOP member of the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis, said in an interview. “I don’t ...

  Bloomberg Banks will return €296.3 billion ($308 billion) of cheap loans to the European Central Bank after their terms were toughened to help the battle against record inflation. The repayment represents just under 15% of the total outstanding amount of so-called TLTRO loans, which were used during the pandemic to keep credit flowing to households and businesses. The median ...