#BREAKING IMF board approves $1.4 bn in 'critical' support for Ukraine
#UPDATE An apparent Russian air strike destroyed a children's hospital in the besieged Ukrainian port of Mariupol on Wednesday, triggering renewed global outrage two weeks into Moscow's invasion of its ex-Soviet neighbour
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The war with Russia has sparked a health crisis in Ukraine, the World Health Organization warned Wednesday, decrying at least 18 verified attacks on health care facilities and personnel u.afp.com/wPL5
As the crisis worsens in Ukraine, humanitarian and security aid is flowing into the country, but financial support to keep the government running is also critical
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British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss on Wednesday called on the entire G7 to ban Russia oil imports, saying the world's leading economies should "go further and faster" in punishing Moscow for invading Ukraine u.afp.com/wPLG
@DelphineTouitou The Russian and Ukrainian foreign ministers will Thursday hold face-to-face talks in southern Turkey in the first high-level contact between Kyiv and Moscow since Russia invaded its neighbour two weeks ago
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#UPDATE Changchun, a northeastern Chinese city of nine million people, has been ordered to lock down as authorities scramble to halt a fresh outbreak that has pushed #COVID19 case counts to their highest in two years
📸 A resident undergoes a Covid-19 test in Jilin province
Map showing current cases of #COVID19 around mainland China
#BREAKING Russian prosecutors up oversight of foreign companies leaving country
#BREAKING Putin backs plans to send volunteer fighters to Ukraine
#UPDATE Russian President Vladimir Putin backs plans to allow volunteers to fight in Ukraine, where he has sent thousands of Russian troops in what he calls a "special military operation"
#BREAKING US consumer prices rose 7.9% annually in February: govt
#UPDATE US consumer prices saw their biggest annual increase in more than 40 years last month, rising 7.9 percent compared to February 2021 as inflation continues to batter the economy, the government says
#UPDATE The consumer price index (CPI) was 7.9 percent higher in February compared to the same month last year, its biggest jump since January 1982 as costs for gasoline, food and housing rose, the Labor Department says u.afp.com/wPVD
#BREAKING European Central Bank holds key interest at record lows: statement
#UPDATE The European Central Bank has held interest rates at record lows and vowed a flexible end to its bond-buying stimulus scheme, as the eurozone braces for the impact of the Ukraine war and soaring inflation
#UPDATE The European Central Bank has slashed its growth forecast for 2022 to 3.7 percent from 4.2 percent previously predicted, as it expected a recovery to be slowed down by the impact of Russia's invasion of Ukraine on the eurozone economy