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Ukraine's leader Volodymyr Zelensky made a fresh appeal for meaningful peace talks with Moscow on Saturday as Russia said its soldiers had entered the centre of the besieged city of Mariupol, "tightening the noose" around the key port.

Mariupol council says civilians being sent to camps where their phones and documents are checked; Ukraine says 190,000 civilians have been evacuated from the frontline since the invasion began

HYDERABAD: Apart from Hyderabad-based pharma major Aurobindo Pharma Limited, other city-based pharma players like Granules India Ltd, MSN Group and SMS Pharmaceuticals too have received licences from the UN-backed Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) to manufacture and supply a generic version of nirmatrelvir, a key component of Pfizer’s oral Covid-19 drug…

‘Russia is now pursuing a strategy of attrition’, UK’s chief of defence intelligence says

Ukraine news from March 19: Ukraine calls on China to join western countries in condemning ‘Russian barbarism’.

Millions of children remain trapped in areas of conflict in Ukraine as Russia's bombardment intensifies. We spoke to mothers who are bunkering down, some facing days under siege, about how they are looking after their children while they are stuck in war zones.

The United States and Western allies slammed Russia on Friday for spreading propaganda, disinformation and "nonsense" at the United Nations Security Council by alleging that parts of biological weapons were being made in Ukraine. Russia's UN Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia sent a lengthy document, seen by Reuters, to the council and…

Special rapporteur on right to food sees risk of deepening hunger crisis in countries such as Yemen and Ethiopia

Many Ukrainian refugees escaping the country do so in packed vehicles and are either unvaccinated or have not received jabs that are approved in Europe, health workers say

Renewed Russian claims of biological weapons programme in Ukraine face rebuke at UN Security Council meeting.