#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
#UPDATE Ukrainian authorities are seeking to extract the last defenders of the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol on Tuesday, as Russia said hundreds of soldiers who left in an earlier operation had surrendered u.afp.com/w6aL
#BREAKING International Criminal Court deploys 42 staffers to Ukraine: chief prosecutor
#UPDATE The International Criminal Court on Tuesday sent a 42-member team to Ukraine to probe alleged war crimes since the Russian invasion in what its chief prosecutor Karim Khan (pic) said was the largest such deployment in its history u.afp.com/w6zH
#UPDATE Russia said on Tuesday that 265 Ukrainian soldiers had surrendered after staging a last stand at the besieged #Azovstal steelworks in Ukraine's Mariupol, prompting Kyiv to call for a prisoner exchange ▶️ u.afp.com/w6zy
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"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 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
#BREAKING Lebanon pro-reform candidates win at least 13 seats: results
#UPDATE Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah group and its allies have lost their parliamentary majority, according to full legislative results announced by the interior ministry