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KYIV, (Reuters) – Ukraine is ready for a tough battle with Russian forces amassing in the east of the country, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said today, a day after a missile attack in the east that officials said killed more than 50 civilians trying to evacuate.

LAGOS,(Reuters) – Nigeria’s national electricity grid has collapsed for the second time in a month, the federal ministry of power said today, leaving the parts of the country it serves, including capital Abuja and Africa’s biggest city Lagos, without power.

(Reuters) – The first all-private team of astronauts ever launched to the International Space Station (ISS) arrived safely at the orbiting research platform today to begin a week-long science mission hailed as a milestone in commercial spaceflight.

LVIV, Ukraine, (Reuters) – Ukraine called for more weapons and harsher sanctions after it blamed Russia for a missile attack that killed at least 52 people at a train station packed with women, children and the elderly fleeing the threat of a Russian offensive in the east.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Hollywood’s film academy yesterday banned Will Smith from attending the Oscars for 10 years after the best actor winner slapped presenter Chris Rock on stage at the Academy Awards ceremony 12 days ago.

ISLAMABAD,  (Reuters) – Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan said yesterday he would not recognise an opposition government if it succeeded in an attempt to oust him, the latest twist in a political crisis engulfing the nuclear-armed nation.

VIENNA,  (Reuters) – Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer has set off on a one-day trip to Ukraine during which he will meet President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Kyiv this morning, his office said in a statement.

(Reuters) – Akshata Murthy, the wife of British finance minister Rishi Sunak, said yesterday that she would stop avoiding British tax on her foreign income — bowing to pressure which her husband had earlier dismissed as a political smear.

(Reuters) – A federal jury yesterday acquitted two men of conspiring to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2020 and the judge overseeing the case declared a mistrial for two other men after jurors could not come to a verdict for them.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – Ukraine said as many as 50 people, including five children, were killed and many more were wounded and lost limbs in a rocket strike at a railway station packed with civilians fleeing the threat of a major Russian offensive in the country’s east.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – The European Commission chief and the EU’s top diplomat arrived in Kyiv today to offer Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy support and reassurance over his bid for EU membership in a capital gradually reviving after Russia pulled back forces.

BRUSSELS,  (Reuters) – EU governments have frozen about 30 billion euros ($32.6 billion) of assets linked to oligarchs and other sanctioned people with ties to the Kremlin, the European Commission said on Friday.

LVIV, Ukraine,  (Reuters) – Russia gave the most sombre assessment so far of its invasion of Ukraine, describing the “tragedy” of mounting troop losses and the economic hit from sanctions, as Ukrainians were evacuated from eastern cities before an anticipated major offensive.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Ketanji Brown Jackson was confirmed by the Senate yesterday as the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court in a milestone for the United States and a victory for President Joe Biden, who made good on a campaign promise as he seeks to infuse the federal judiciary with a broader range of backgrounds.

(Reuters) – The chairman of Russian aluminium giant Rusal called yesterday for an impartial investigation into the killing of civilians in the Ukrainian town of Bucha, which he described as a crime, and urged an end to the “fratricidal” conflict.

ISLAMABAD,  (Reuters) – Pakistan’s Supreme Court ruled yesterday that Prime Minister Imran Khan’s move to dissolve parliament was unconstitutional and ordered lawmakers to return, a decision that could spell the end of his premiership as soon as today.

  UNITED NATIONS,  (Reuters) – The United Nations General Assembly today suspended Russia from the U.N.

LVIV, Ukraine,  (Reuters) – Ukraine stepped up calls today for financial sanctions crippling enough to force Moscow to end the war as its officials rushed to evacuate civilians from cities and towns in the east before an anticipated major Russian offensive there.

ISLAMABAD,  (Reuters) – Pakistan’s Supreme Court ruled today that Prime Minister Imran Khan’s move to dissolve parliament was unconstitutional and called for lawmakers to return in two days, a decision that could spell the end of his premiership.

MEXICO CITY/WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Inter-American Development Bank directors have met to discuss accusations in an anonymous email that the bank’s president, Mauricio Claver-Carone, carried out an intimate relationship with a staffer, three sources said.