The UN warns that the situation in Gaza is catastrophic, with northern Gaza facing imminent famine and the rest of the Strip at risk as well. Vladimir Putin said he is open to French President Emmanuel Macron's plan to propose a ceasefire during this summer's Paris Olympics
Read MoreAnother massive Russian missile & rocket attack early this morning in Ukraine: 59 different types of missiles and drones aimed to points nationwide. Israel says its forces carried out new attacks against Hamas militants in central and southern Gaza, as well as airstrikes against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.
Read MoreAt least 18 people were killed and well over 100 wounded in a wave of Russian strikes across Ukraine - including Kyiv, Lviv, Odesa, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipro and Kharkiv. Ukraine's military says Russia launched a "massive" attack with 158 drones and missiles - the air force says it has "never seen so many locations targeted simultaneously"
Read MoreA divided Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday declared former President Donald Trump ineligible for the White House under the U.S. Constitution’s insurrection clause and removed him from the state’s presidential primary ballot. Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky hints at mobilisation of up to 500,000
Read MoreDozens of Hamas terrorists lost contact with the terror group's leadership, leaving them with no option but to lay down their weapons and surrender to Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip. Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky travels to Argentina to rally global south support.
Read MoreA ground invasion appears under way in Gaza as mobile phone service and internet connectivity ceases. The U.N. reiterates pleas for humanitarian aid to resume and for a ceasefire to be implemented. The wives and children of active Ukrainian servicemen plead for limits to their tours of duty on the frontlines.
Read MoreThe annual UNGA gets underway today in New York. Though there are some notable no-shows among the permanent members of the Security Council. In the next days the progress of achieving the Millennium Development Goals will be reviewed and climate and health will dominate side discussions.
Read MoreRussian missile attack on Khmelnytsky overnight. Russia is 99.9% certain to quit a U.N.-brokered deal on the safe wartime passage of Black Sea grain next month because it no longer needs Ukrainian ports to export ammonia, a senior Ukrainian diplomat said.
Read MoreRussia has told people to leave 18 settlements in the Zaporizhzhia region, including Enerhodar near the plant, ahead of Kyiv's anticipated offensive. The director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said the evacuation of residents near the nuclear plant indicated the possibility of heavy fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces around the plant.
Read MoreOn the battlefield, the fight for the eastern city of Bakhmut raged on. While in Zaporizhizhia another Russian missile strike on populated civilian targets resulted in deaths and injuries.
Read MoreUkrainian tank crews have arrived in Britain to begin training for their continued fight against Russia, the British Defense Ministry said, just days after Britain and other NATO countries pledged more than 130 tanks to Ukraine. Ukraine's military said on January 29 that its forces had repelled an attack in the area of Blahodatne in the eastern part of the Donetsk region, while Russia's Vagner private military group said it had taken control of the village.
Read MoreA Russian strike on a city in the eastern region of Donetsk killed at least three people as Ukrainian forces engaged Russian troops in ferocious battles in several hot spots in the east, where Moscow has been pressing its offensive with increased urgency amid Western pledges of modern tank deliveries for Kyiv.
Read MoreThe U.S. is to send 31 Abrams main battle tanks to Ukraine - along with parts, equipment and training, President Joe Biden has said. The decision follows Germany’s lead to send 14 Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine and to not stand in way of other countries sending their own German-built tanks. The ECHR agrees to hear a case against Russia in the 2014 downing of Flight Mh17.
Read MoreA fresh wave of Russian missile and drone attacks across Ukraine this morning, striking several major cities and interrupting critical services. EU has agreed on a fresh round of sanctions on Russia over the war in Ukraine after complaints from hawkish Eastern European leaders that some countries were trying to water them down.
Read MoreSeveral regions of Ukraine reported interruptionsMonday to power and water supplies amid freezing temperatures after about 70 Russian missiles were fired at targets across the country in a new round of Moscow strikes. Drone explosions were reported deep inside Russia at a military air base
Read MoreOnce again, Ukraine was hit with a massive missile attack from Russia. A Dutch court delivers its verdict on four suspects connected with the shoot down of MH17
Read MoreConfusion remains over how a missile that appeared to be of Russian origin landed in Poland Tuesday, killing two people. One theory is that Ukrainian air defense systems created the explosion. Meanwhile, recovery efforts are underway from a massive Russian missile strike on Ukraine Tuesday, with some 100 missiles involved.
Read MorePresident Volodymyr Zelenskiy has hailed Ukraine's recapture of Kherson during a surprise visit to the strategic southern city as the possible "beginning of the end of the war," but warned that such victories came at a high price.
Read MoreRussian forces have withdrawn from Ukraine’s Kherson region west of the Dnipro River, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Friday, in one of the biggest setbacks for Moscow since the start of the war. President Volodymyr Zelensky cautioned that forces will advance carefully, amid warnings that Russian troops have mined the city and will continue to strike against it from the river's east bank.
Read MoreUkrainian troops retook a wide swath of territory from Russia on Monday, pushing all the way back to the northeastern border in some places, and claimed to have captured many Russian soldiers as part of a lightning advance that forced Moscow to make a hasty retreat. A Ukrainian presidential adviser said there were so many prisoners of war that the country was running out of space to accommodate them.
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