VIDEO: New isolation units under construction in virus-ravaged Hong Kong.
As Covid cases soar, Hong Kong is constructing two temporary isolation facilities -- with help from building crews from mainland China
Hong Kong parents are being separated from children and babies who test positive for Covid, compounding public anger over the financial hub's lack of readiness for a major outbreak now sweeping the city
#BREAKING Explosions heard in Kharkiv, a major Ukrainian city just south of the Russian border, after Russia's President Vladimir Putin launched a military operation.
Ukrainian forces in the city have been battling Moscow-backed insurgents since 2014
#BREAKING Military 'will do everything in its power to defend' the country, says Ukrainian foreign ministry
#BREAKING Lebanon thwarts three attacks by IS-linked militants
#UPDATE Lebanon has thwarted three bombings targeting Shiite places of worship in Beirut's southern suburbs that were being planned by the Islamic State group, the interior ministry said on Wednesday
#UPDATE Lebanon's Internal Security Forces (ISF) said the instructions for the bomb plot came from an IS operative based in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain al-Hilweh, who is in touch with fellow Sunni extremists in Syria u.afp.com/wQ6R
Russian President Vladimir Putin says Moscow is ready to look for "diplomatic solutions" amid raging tensions with the West over Ukraine but stresses that the country's interests were non-negotiable
#UPDATE Ukraine urges its citizens to leave Russia immediately, citing the threat of a Russian invasion.
Escalating Russian aggression against Ukraine could complicate consular assistance in Russia, the foreign ministry says, urging citizens to refrain from travel to Russia