#AFPGraphics map of Ukraine locating its six sites inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list
'Kamikaze drones'
#AFPGraphics factfile on the US Switchblades or "kamikaze drones," to be sent by US to Ukraine
#BREAKING Russian forces strike Lviv airport area in west Ukraine: mayor
#UPDATE Russian forces have struck an area around Lviv's airport in Ukraine, Mayor Andriy Sadovyi says.
Sadovyi could not give a precise address but says "it's definitely not an airport", as grey smoke streams across the sky and ambulances and police vehicles race to the scene
VIDEO: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visits patients at a hospital in Vorzel in the Kyiv region that came under fire during its evacuation.
At the hospital, Zelensky spoke with injured Kyiv residents and the driver of US journalist Brent Renaud who was killed in Irpin
#BREAKING Fighting in Mariupol city centre: Russian defence ministry
VIDEO: Odessa transforms into a fortress in preparation for Russian attack.
The city known as "the pearl of the Black Sea" is still at peace but ready for war -- oscillating between anxious expectation of a Russian attack and the redolence of early spring
As the conflict in #Ukraine rages, residents of a region in northern #Poland that will house a US missile facility worry they could become Russian targets in case of a wider conflict u.afp.com/wmY8#Redzikowo
#BREAKING More than 2 million Ukraine refugees in Poland: border guards
#BREAKING Putin accuses Ukraine of stalling talks, says Moscow ready to search for 'solutions': Kremlin after Putin call with Germany's Scholz
#BREAKING Norway boosts military spending by over 300 million euros: minister
#BREAKING Top sports court CAS upholds FIFA ban on Russia taking part in playoffs for 2022 World Cup finals #AFPSports
#BREAKING Bulgaria expels 10 Russian diplomats: official
#UPDATE The International Monetary Fund, World Bank and other top global lenders on Friday warned of "extensive" economic fallout from the #Ukraine war and expressed their horror at the "devastating human catastrophe" in the country u.afp.com/wmdn
#BREAKING Baltic countries expel 10 Russian diplomats: official
#UPDATE Baltic countries Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania on Friday announced the expulsion of 10 Russian diplomats over the invasion of #Ukraine, prompting Moscow to say it would respond in kind u.afp.com/wmmj
📷 File pic shows Latvia's Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics
#UPDATE Ukraine on Friday said "hundreds" of civilians were trapped in the wreckage of a theatre bombed by Russia, as the United States demanded China get tough with its "war criminal" allies in the Kremlin u.afp.com/wmsT
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#BREAKING Romania's constitutional court orders recount of first round of presidential vote: statement
#UPDATE Romania's constitutional court on Thursday ordered a recount of votes cast in the first round of the presidential election, after a rival far-right contender filed a legal challenge ➡️ u.afp.com/597X
#BREAKING TikTok gave 'preferential treatment' to far-right candidate who won Romania election first round: presidency
#UPDATE A referendum on Moldova joining the EU passed with a razor-thin majority on Monday as pro-Brussels President Maia Sandu blamed the outcome on foreign meddling in a veiled reference to Russia, which denied the accusations ➡️ u.afp.com/5zL7
BREAKING France's high-speed train system disrupted by vandalism: operator
#UPDATE Hours before the opening ceremony of the Paris #Olympics , France's high-speed rail network has been hit by "malicious acts" including arson attacks that have disrupted the transport system, train operator SNCF says.
"This is a massive attack on a large scale to paralyse the TGV network," SNCF told @AFP, adding that many routes will have to be cancelled and the situation would last "at least all weekend while repairs are conducted"
BREAKING The arson attacks on France's high-speed rail network were coordinated acts of "sabotage", a source close to the investigation tells @AFP
#BREAKING 104 police, 30 journalists among injured in Bangladesh clashes: TV
#UPDATE Protesters in Bangladesh set fire to several government buildings during a day of deadly nationwide clashes between students and riot officers, a police statement said.
"The miscreants have already torched, vandalised and carried out destructive activities," on the offices of state broadcaster BTV and the national disaster management agency along with "various" police and government buildings, said the statement, issued after a nationwide internet shutdown
Bangladesh wakes to torched government buildings, internet blackout.
This week's unrest has killed at least 39 people including 32 on Thursday, with the toll expected to rise further after reports of clashes in nearly half of the country's 64 districts
#BREAKING Biden says still considers Xi a 'dictator'
#UPDATE US President Joe Biden said after a summit with Xi Jinping that he still considers the Chinese president a "dictator", after he sparked fury from Beijing by making the comparison earlier this year.
"Well look he is, I mean he's a dictator in the sense that he's a guy who's running a country, a Communist country, that's based on a form of government totally different than ours," Biden said at the end of a news conference when a reporter asked if he would still use the term to describe Xi
#BREAKING China will not begin armed conflict with any nation, President Xi Jinping said Wednesday, after a high-stakes summit with US President Joe Biden.
"China does not seek spheres of influence, and will not fight a cold or hot war with any country," he told a gathering of business leaders in San Francisco