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WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Russia’s false accusations that Kyiv has biological and chemical weapons illustrate that Russian President Vladimir Putin is considering using them himself in his war against Ukraine, U.S.

(Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said yesterday that it would not be possible to negotiate an end to the war in his country without meeting Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin.

GUANGZHOU, China,  (Reuters) – A China Eastern Airlines 600115.SS Boeing 737-800 with 132 people on board crashed in mountains in southern China yesterday after a sudden plunge from cruising altitude at about the time when it would normally start to descend ahead of its landing.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Joe Biden’s nominee to become the first Black woman on the U.S.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. securities regulator yesterday proposed requiring U.S.-listed

GIBRALTAR,  (Reuters) – A luxurious super-yacht linked to the owner of Russia’s largest steel pipe maker, who is currently under British and European Union sanctions, docked in Gibraltar today and was then detained by the authorities.

MARIUPOL/LVIV/KYIV, Ukraine,  (Reuters) – Ukraine said it would not accept ultimatums from Russia after Moscow demanded it stop defending besieged Mariupol, where hundreds of thousands of civilians are suffering through Russian bombardments laying waste to their city.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – Shelling hit a Kyiv shopping centre late yesterday, killing at least eight people, wrecking nearby buildings and leaving smoking piles of rubble and the twisted wreckage of burned-out cars spread over several hundred metres.

board crashed in mountains in southern China on a domestic flight today following a sudden descent from cruising altitude.

LVIV, Ukraine, (Reuters) – Ukraine yesterday rejected Russian calls to surrender the port city of Mariupol, where residents are besieged with little food, water and power in a humanitarian crisis that is increasing pressure on European leaders to toughen sanctions on Moscow.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The Biden administration has formally determined that violence committed against the Rohingya minority by Myanmar’s military amounts to genocide and crimes against humanity, U.S.

CAPE TOWN,  (Reuters) – A South African court has halted construction of Amazon’s AMZN.O

  LONDON, (Reuters) – Russia today called on Ukrainian forces to lay down their arms in the eastern port city of Mariupol where Moscow said a “terrible humanitarian catastrophe” was unfolding.

LVIV, Ukraine,  (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Russia’s siege of the port city of Mariupol was “a terror that will be remembered for centuries to come”, while local authorities said thousands of residents there had been taken by force across the border.

VATICAN CITY,  (Reuters) – Pope Francis, continuing his implicit criticism of Russia, today called the conflict in Ukraine an unjustified “senseless massacre” and urged leaders to stop “this repugnant war”.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – A senior Chinese government official said yesterday that sanctions imposed by Western nations on Russia over Ukraine are increasingly “outrageous”.

LVIV/ODESSA, Ukraine, (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called yesterday for comprehensive peace talks with Moscow and also urged Switzerland to do more to crack down on Russian oligarchs who he said were helping wage war on his country with their money.

SHANGHAI/BEIJING, (Reuters) – Mainland China reported its first COVID-19 deaths in more than a year yesterday, according to a post on the National Health Commission’s website that said two people died in the northeastern region of Jilin.

VATICAN CITY, (Reuters) – Pope Francis introduced a landmark reform on Saturday that will allow any baptised lay Catholic, including women, to head most Vatican departments under a new constitution for the Holy See’s central administration.

(Reuters) – Mexico’s National Migration Institute (INM) said on Friday it has temporarily suspended operations in the city of Tapachula, in Chiapas, after some staff were injured in what it called a “violent” incident involving migrants.