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CAPE TOWN,  (Reuters) – A South African court has halted construction of Amazon’s AMZN.O

  LONDON, (Reuters) – Russia today called on Ukrainian forces to lay down their arms in the eastern port city of Mariupol where Moscow said a “terrible humanitarian catastrophe” was unfolding.

LVIV, Ukraine,  (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Russia’s siege of the port city of Mariupol was “a terror that will be remembered for centuries to come”, while local authorities said thousands of residents there had been taken by force across the border.

VATICAN CITY,  (Reuters) – Pope Francis, continuing his implicit criticism of Russia, today called the conflict in Ukraine an unjustified “senseless massacre” and urged leaders to stop “this repugnant war”.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – A senior Chinese government official said yesterday that sanctions imposed by Western nations on Russia over Ukraine are increasingly “outrageous”.

LVIV/ODESSA, Ukraine, (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called yesterday for comprehensive peace talks with Moscow and also urged Switzerland to do more to crack down on Russian oligarchs who he said were helping wage war on his country with their money.

SHANGHAI/BEIJING, (Reuters) – Mainland China reported its first COVID-19 deaths in more than a year yesterday, according to a post on the National Health Commission’s website that said two people died in the northeastern region of Jilin.

VATICAN CITY, (Reuters) – Pope Francis introduced a landmark reform on Saturday that will allow any baptised lay Catholic, including women, to head most Vatican departments under a new constitution for the Holy See’s central administration.

(Reuters) – Mexico’s National Migration Institute (INM) said on Friday it has temporarily suspended operations in the city of Tapachula, in Chiapas, after some staff were injured in what it called a “violent” incident involving migrants.

By Ruth Douglas (SciDev.Net) – The war in Ukraine has dealt a major blow to global food security through its impacts on wheat, oil and fertiliser exports, in a world already reeling from COVID-19 and climate change, experts have told SciDev.Net.

(Reuters) – Russians trying to enter the United States at the Mexican border are frustrated they are not getting in like Ukrainians are, despite leaving their homeland over the invasion of Ukraine.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Russia said today it had used hypersonic Kinzhal (Dagger) missiles to destroy a large weapons depot in Ukraine’s western Ivano-Frankivsk region.

SHANGHAI/BEIJING, (Reuters) – Mainland China reported its first COVID-19 deaths in more than a year on Saturday, according to a post on the National Health Commission’s website that said two people died in the northeastern region of Jilin.

KYIV/LVIV, Ukraine, (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden warned China against helping Russia attack Ukraine in a video call with President Xi Jinping yesterday as concern grew over mass civilian casualties in the besieged southern port of Mariupol.

(Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy yesterday called for comprehensive peace talks with Moscow, saying Russia would otherwise need generations to recover from losses suffered during the war.

ISTANBUL, (Reuters) – President Tayyip Erdogan opened a massive suspension bridge across Turkey’s Dardanelles Strait yesterday, the latest in a series of major infrastructure projects which he has prioritised during his two decades in power.

DUBAI/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad traveled to the United Arab Emirates yesterday, his first visit to an Arab state since the Syrian war began in 2011, underlining warming ties with a U.S.-allied

(Reuters) – Oilfield services company Halliburton Co HAL.N said today it has suspended future business in Russia, including for certain state-owned Russian customers, in compliance with U.S.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin justified the invasion of Ukraine before a packed soccer stadium today but coverage of his speech on state television was unexpectedly interrupted by what the Kremlin said was a technical problem with a server.

WASHINGTON/BEIJING, (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping told U.S. President Joe Biden in a video call today that the war in Ukraine must end as soon as possible and called on NATO nations to hold a dialogue with Moscow, but did not assign blame to Russia for the invasion.