#BREAKING More than 260 Ukrainian soldiers evacuated from Azovstal: defence ministry
#UPDATE Hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers have been evacuated from the besieged Azovstal steelworks -- the last holdout of troops defending the southern port city of Mariupol -- Kyiv says
Rattled by Russia, Finns flock to military training.
On a military island off Helsinki, people from all walks of life are spending a weekend doing military training, as volunteer numbers soar and Finland readies to join NATO to protect itself from Russia
Young, poor and from minorities: the Russian troops killed in Ukraine.
The loss of rank-and-file soldiers has been devastating with observers believing the Russian toll could be exceeding the 15,000 Soviet soldiers killed during the 1979-1989 Afghan war
"All the city is my house, all the city (is) my gallery"
Street artist Gamlet Zinkivsky has remained in his hometown of Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-biggest city, to paint its walls even amid the destruction of Russia's invasion
Ukraine is seeking to evacuate the last soldiers holed up at the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol as the first war crimes trial of a Russian soldier since the invasion began is set to get under way in Kyiv
@AFP's Jonathan Nackstrand covers a Swedish Army exercise on the island of Gotland.
Finland and Sweden will submit bids to join NATO together Wednesday. Sweden's decision is dramatic - it was neutral in WWII and stayed out of military alliances for over 200 years
Finland and Sweden will submit their bids to join NATO together Wednesday, despite Turkey's threat to block the military alliance's expansion.
"I'm happy we have taken the same path and we can do it together," Swedish Prime Minister Andersson says
VIDEO: Finnish MPs vote overwhelmingly in favour of NATO membership.
188 of 200 members of parliament voted in favour of NATO membership, a dramatic turnaround from Finland's military non-alignment policy dating back more than 75 years
#BREAKING Russia says 265 Ukrainian soldiers surrendered at Azovstal: defence ministry
#UPDATE Russia's defence ministry said Tuesday that 265 Ukrainian soldiers, including several dozen wounded, surrendered at the besieged Azovstal steel plant in Ukraine's port city of Mariupol
#BREAKING Musk says Twitter purchase will not go ahead without clarity on spam accounts
#UPDATE Billionaire Elon Musk said Tuesday that his purchase of Twitter would not go ahead unless he was assured that fewer than five percent of accounts on the platform were fake
#UPDATE Billionaire Elon Musk said his purchase of Twitter would not go ahead unless he was given assurances on the bots that he says plague the platform, further complicating his acrimonious bid for the social media giant u.afp.com/w6EE