The Latest Breaking News from United Nations

The Russian assault on the Ukrainian capital has led to a curfew being announced in the city, set to last through until Monday morning

EU leaders announced tough new sanctions on Russia on Sunday, such as closing the entirety of EU airspace to Russian planes – including private jets – and banning Russian state media outlets RT and Sputnik, which European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen called “the Kremlin’s media machine".

Ukraine news from February 27: Putin puts Russia’s nuclear forces on high alert as Kyiv agrees to talks.

Now that Vladimir Putin has chosen the path of war, he has to win it, and we dread to imagine the horrors that might unleash. That means we must throw open our doors to Ukrainian refugees

Russian troops facing fierce resistance as Germany abandons its postwar military stance to supply arms to Ukraine

Ukrainians are having to make agonising choices, some are arming themselves and making Molotov cocktails, while others flee. Here's everything you need to know about what's happened since the invasion began.

Anti-refugee governments in Poland and Hungary take decidedly different tone after Russian invasion.

More than 520,000 people have fled Ukraine into Poland and other neighbouring countries, the UN has said.

Political Editor Nigel Nelson explains why the system can't work when one country is the aggressor - and the signals that change could be on the way

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres spoke with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Saturday, telling him the world body plans to "enhance humanitarian assistance to the people of Ukraine", a U.N. spokesperson said.

Universities reopen six months after Taliban returned to power, but only a trickle of women have returned to classrooms.