VIDEO: French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz visit Berlin's symbolically important Brandenburg Gate, which is illuminated in Ukraine's national colours
#BREAKING German FM Baerbock visits Bucha on surprise Ukraine visit: AFP
Graphic showing key developments in Ukraine as of May 10, 0700 GMT #AFPgraphics@AFP
#UPDATE German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock during a surprise trip to Ukraine on Tuesday visited Bucha, a suburb of Kyiv where Russian troops have been accused of killing civilians
#BREAKING Over 1,000 Ukraine fighters, including hundreds injured, still in Azovstal plant: Kyiv
#UPDATE Kyiv says that more than 1,000 Ukrainian troops, many of them injured, remained in the sprawling Azovstal steel works in the Russian-controlled port city of #Mariupol
"I feel total apathy. I am morally starved -- not to mention physically."
Lysychansk was once an important coal mining centre before Russia invaded #Ukraine on February 24.
Now the city is in ruins and residents rely on a tiny stream for access to water u.afp.com/w2nu
#UPDATE The Ukrainian economy is set to contract by almost one third this year in the wake of Russia's invasion, the European development bank said Tuesday u.afp.com/w2nV
#BREAKING Kyiv mayor says nearly two-thirds of residents have returned
#UPDATE The mayor of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv said Tuesday that nearly two-thirds of the capital's residents had returned after a massive exodus following Russia's invasion of Ukraine in late February
#BREAKING More than 8 million internally displaced in Ukraine: UN
#UPDATE More than eight million people are estimated to have been internally displaced by Russia's war in Ukraine, having fled their homes but stayed within the country, the United Nations said Tuesday
#BREAKING Germany to reopen embassy in Kyiv 'shortly': foreign minister
#BREAKING Kyiv hails Berlin's 'change of position' on oil embargo, arms to Ukraine
#BREAKING Ukraine's EU membership 'a matter of war and peace' for Europe: foreign minister
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Ferdinand Marcos Jr, whose dictator father and namesake plundered and brutalised the Philippines, has reached the endgame of a decades-long campaign to rehabilitate the family brand: the presidency
Son of late Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos cements landslide presidential election victory, after Filipinos bet a familiar dynasty might ease rampant poverty -- while dismissing warnings the clan's return will deepen corruption and weaken democracy
VIDEO: The Philippines' presidential candidate Leni Robredo addresses her supporters after her opponent, the son of late Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos, cements a landslide election victory
Sri Lanka deploys thousands of troops and police to enforce a curfew after five people were killed in the worst violence in weeks of protests over an unprecedented economic crisis
#AFPgraphics factfile on unrest in Sri Lanka on May 9 after supporters of the president attacked anti-government protesters and authorities declared a curfew
#BREAKING UN condemns escalating violence in Sri Lanka
#BREAKING Yoon Suk-yeol sworn in as South Korean president
#BREAKING South Korean President Yoon calls for 'complete denuclearisation' of North Korea
#UPDATE New South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol calls for "complete denuclearisation" of North Korea, saying Pyongyang's weapons programmes are a threat to global security.
If Pyongyang "genuinely" denuclearises, Yoon says he has a plan to help the impoverished North's economy
#BREAKING France's Macron backs EU treaty change proposed by citizens' panel
#BREAKING Macron suggests creating 'European political community' around bloc to host non-EU members like Ukraine
#UPDATE France's President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday it would take "decades" for a candidate like Ukraine to join the EU, and suggested building a broader political community of democratic states around the bloc u.afp.com/w2A2
#BREAKING Curfew in Sri Lanka capital after rivals clash, 20 injured
#UPDATE Police imposed an indefinite curfew in Sri Lanka's capital Monday after government supporters clashed with demonstrators demanding the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa
#BREAKING US envoy condemns Sri Lanka violence, 78 in hospital