#BREAKING Russia will only accept rubles for gas deliveries to 'unfriendly countries', which include all EU members: Putin
#BREAKING UN's labour agency suspends cooperation with Russia 'until a ceasefire is agreed', 'peaceful resolution is implemented' in Ukraine
#BREAKING NATO to deploy four new 'battle groups' to eastern members: Stoltenberg
#BREAKING NATO allies set to agree 'additional support' to Ukraine against nuclear, chemical threats: Stoltenberg
#BREAKING China providing political support to Russia with 'blatant lies': NATO chief
Map of #Ukraine locating the humanitarian corridors agreed between Ukraine and Russia and open on March 23 to allow the evacuation of civilians from areas hit by shelling #AFPgraphics
#BREAKING Ukraine President Zelensky, during address to French parliament, calls on French companies to quit Russia
#UPDATE Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called on French companies including carmaker Renault, supermarket group Auchan and DIY retailer Leroy Merlin to leave Russia, during an address to the French parliament on Wednesday u.afp.com/wsMX
#BREAKING Russia's demand for gas payment in rubles a 'breach of contract': Germany
#BREAKING New Western sanctions to target Russian 'political figures, oligarchs': US official
#BREAKING US assesses Russian forces committed war crimes in Ukraine: Blinken
#BREAKING Russia expels US diplomats in tit-for-tat move: official
#UPDATE President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday Russia will only accept payments in rubles for gas deliveries to "unfriendly countries", which include all EU members, after Moscow was hit by unprecedented sanctions over #Ukraine u.afp.com/wsAK
#UPDATE The United States has reached the assessment that Russian military forces committed war crimes in Ukraine, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced Wednesday
#BREAKING Russian journalist killed in Kyiv shelling: media outlet
Russian journalist Oksana Baulina, who worked for the investigative news outlet The Insider, was killed when Russian troops shelled a residential neighbourhood in the Ukrainian capital, the outlet said Wednesday, the latest reporter to die in war
#UPDATE A bloodied but defiant #Ukraine appealed Wednesday ahead of a major NATO summit for more Western weapons to fight what the United States formally labelled Russian "war crimes"
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#BREAKING Ukraine's Zelensky urges global protests against Russia's war
#UPDATE Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday urged citizens around the world to take to the streets to stop Russia's invasion of his country
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#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
#BREAKING Any compromise with Russia will 'destroy' Ukrainian statehood: presidential aide to AFP
#BREAKING Putin says West used grain deal for 'political blackmail'
VIDEO: Ukrainian firefighters battle flames after a Russian strike on Odesa.
Ukraine's president accused Russia of deliberately targeting grain export infrastructure in the city after Moscow ended a landmark deal and lifted security guarantees in the Black Sea
#BREAKING Putin says situation 'difficult' in Rostov in southern Russia
#UPDATE Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday acknowledged a "difficult" situation was unfolding in the southern city of Rostov-on-Don, where the Wagner mercenary group has taken control of key military sites in an effort to oust Russian military's top brass.
#UPDATE President Vladimir Putin vowed Saturday he would not allow Russia to slip into civil war, after the leader of the Wagner mercenary force seized a key military headquarters overseeing the offensive in Ukraine.
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#BREAKING Titanic sub operator believes passengers have 'sadly been lost': statement
#UPDATE The US Coast Guard now says the discovered debris from the submersible -- which was carrying five passengers down to the wreckage of the Titanic when the small vessel vanished on Sunday -- suggests 'catastrophic loss'
#BREAKING Pakistan offer condolences to family of British-Pakistan nationals on Titanic sub