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Potentially significant bulletins available for about 10 minutes before being withdrawn by two state news outlets

Defence minister Boris Pistorius confirms what diplomats and officials have suspected for months

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol says he will discuss international response to the purported North Korean-Russian weapons deal during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in San Francisco this week

Ukrainian forces secure foothold on east bank of Dnipro River; Russia increasing use of kamikaze drones

As the war enters its 629th day, these are the main developments.

When armed conflict breaks out, we first focus on the people affected. But the suffering from war doesn’t stop when the fighting does. War trashes the environment. Artillery strikes, rockets and landmines release pollutants, wipe out forests and can make farmland unusable.

Western countries are calling on Russia to end domestic repression of dissident voices and to end its war in Ukraine, as Russia came under a regular review at the U.N.’s top human rights body

The House stopgap would punt final appropriations decisions, but there would still be a variety of other measures on lawmakers' “to-do” list.

Ukrainian filmmaker Mstyslav Chernov was in Mariupol when Russia invaded. "I just understood that we need to record everything," he says. His new documentary is 20 Days in Mariupol.