Russian President Vladimir Putin has cast Moscow’s military action in Ukraine as a forced response to Western policies.

The Russian president finished his speech with a rallying cry to the assembled soldiers: “For Russia, For Victory, Hurrah!”

People living in the same building of confirmed cases can now be sent to quarantine centres, even as COVID numbers drop.

UN Under-Secretary General Grete Faremo has resigned after a plan to invest $87 million in housing and oceans went spectacularly wrong.

Ukrainians are continuing to flee Russian-occupied areas.

WeChat video shows Shanghai health workers dragging residents from their homes to go to quarantine centres. (Source: Twitter)

The footage, from hundreds of reels, shows the Queen as a young woman at the heart of a happy family before the weight of her public responsibility took hold.

The message “If abortions aren’t safe then you aren’t either” was spray-painted on the campaign office of Wisconsin Family Action.

The equipment used in Russia’s tanks, drones, and some cruise missiles is stuffed with chips made by the West, despite longstanding trade restrictions. Some essential parts are even being pilfered from cameras bought online.

The Church of England has apologised for 800-year-old laws targeting Jewish people in England.

Experts believe Vladimir Putin may officially declare war on Ukraine.

Search crews with dogs have hunted through the ruins of a luxury hotel in Cuba’s capital for survivors of a devastating explosion.

Scientists around the world are investigating how a dwindling number of people have managed to dodge the coronavirus for more than two years.

Russia’s Victory Day commemoration of World War II will play a vital role in Vladimir Putin’s attempts to win his people over on the invasion of Ukraine.

The family of a toddler abandoned in Mexico say they are still dealing with red tape as they try to bring her to Australia.

About 90 people were sheltering at a school in the Ukrainian village of Bilohorivka when it was hit by Russian bomb, the region’s governor says.

As the only candidate in Sunday’s secret ballot, Lee won near-unanimous support from the Election Committee.

Vice-President Leni Robredo is the only genuine challenger to Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos jnr in Monday’s presidential election and drew hundreds of thousands to her final rally in Manila.

Poverty-stricken drug users in the African country have turned to a cheaper narcotic.

The Taliban order is a sharp, hard-line pivot that confirms the worst fears of rights activists.