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WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – More than 1 million children have fled Ukraine to neighbouring countries in the less than two weeks since Russia started its invasion of Ukraine, the head of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Wednesday.

BENGALURU,  (Reuters) – Global oil prices today posted their biggest plunge since the early pandemic days nearly two years ago, after the United Arab Emirates said the OPEC member would support increasing output into a market in disarray because of supply disruptions caused by sanctions imposed on Russia after it invaded Ukraine.

LVIV, Ukraine,  (Reuters) – Ukraine accused Russia today of bombing a children’s hospital in the besieged port of Mariupol during an agreed ceasefire to enable civilians trapped in the city to escape.

WARSAW,  (Reuters) – Any supply of fighter jets to Ukraine must be done jointly by NATO countries, the Polish prime minister said today, after Washington rejected Poland’s offer to fly all its MIG-29 jets to a U.S.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – In an act of defiance on a Kyiv square where recent uprisings have scuppered Moscow’s ambitions in Ukraine, an orchestra assembled before a small crowd tpday to play the national anthem as Russian forces advanced on the city.

WASHINGTON/LVIV, Ukraine, (Reuters) – Russia said it is ready to provide humanitarian corridors today for people fleeing Kyiv and four other Ukrainian cities, as the number of refugees created by the biggest assault on a European country since World War Two surpassed 2 million.

CARACAS/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Venezuela released at least two jailed U.S. citizens yesterday, people familiar with the matter said, in an apparent goodwill gesture toward the Biden administration following a visit to Caracas by a high-level U.S.

LONDON/ZURICH,  (Reuters) – Investors managing $2.4 trillion are calling on Credit Suisse CSGN.S

SINGAPORE,  (Reuters) – Global jet fuel prices have surged to near 14-year highs in line with crude oil’s surge on supply shortfall worries, slamming air carriers and travellers with steep cost increases just as air travel was starting to recover from COVID-19 restrictions.

VIENNA,  (Reuters) – Western powers yesterday warned Russia against wrecking an almost completed deal on bringing the United States and Iran back into compliance with the 2015 nuclear accord, as Iran’s top negotiator was set to return from consultations in Tehran.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – McDonald’s, PepsiCo, Coca-Cola and Starbucks stopped sales of their best-known products in Russia yesterday, offering a united rebuke of the war on Ukraine by companies that define America for much of the world.

OTTAWA,  (Reuters) – Canada’s satellite builder and operator MDA Ltd. MDA.TO

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden today imposed an immediate ban on Russian oil and other energy imports in retaliation for the invasion of Ukraine, amid strong support from American voters and lawmakers, even though the move will drive up U.S.

LVIV, Ukraine, (Reuters) – Ukrainians boarded buses to flee the besieged eastern city of Sumy today, the first evacuation from a Ukrainian city through a humanitarian corridor agreed with Russia.

(Reuters) – Attacks on hospitals, ambulances and other health care facilities in Ukraine have increased rapidly in recent days and the country is running short of vital medical supplies, the World Health Organization (WHO) said today.

(Reuters) – Shell SHEL.L stopped buying Russian crude today and said it would phase out its involvement in all Russian hydrocarbons from oil to natural gas over Ukraine, becoming one of the first major Western oil companies to abandon Russia entirely.

LVIV/IRPIN, Ukraine,  (Reuters) – Fears of an energy war between Russia and the West grew yesterday after the United States pushed its allies to ban Russian oil imports as punishment for Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, where talks on humanitarian corridors made little progress.

THE HAGUE, (Reuters) – Ukraine sought an emergency order from the United Nations’ highest court yesterday to halt hostilities on its territory, arguing that Russia – which boycotted the hearing – had falsely applied genocide law to justify its invasion.

MANGALURU, India,  (Reuters) – Ganapathi Bhat goes to work most mornings carrying a homemade contraption consisting of a small motor, a rudimentary seat and a set of wheels – all expertly combined to help the farmer in southern India swiftly climb tall trees.

HOUSTON,  (Reuters) – Colombian President Ivan Duque yesterday said any solution for Venezuela’s future, whose humanitarian crisis under President Nicolas Maduro has hit neighboring nations with an influx of migrants, must come through genuine, transparent presidential elections.